it would have been easier than that: the Arabs could have just accepted the 1947 Partition Plan, but their hatred of Jews didn’t allow it. (Also, don’t overlook that many Arabs WERE paid for their arid land - overpaid, in fact. You left that part out.) And Jews have offered land, a two-state solution, since then - but Arabs’ antisemitism wouldn’t allow them to accept it, as they want Israel WIPED OUT.
Yes, the problem IS fatherless young males, and only blacks themselves can change that. They need to reduce the percentage of babies they have out of wedlock - a SHAMEFUL 72% - and focus on completing high school, getting additional job training via Pell Grants, and delaying children until both parents are married and employed.
No, totally opposed to emboldening militant black racists to promote further anti-white racism. That would be the result of a “black nation” within America.
We already have all-black schools (just look at DC), where twice as much money is allocated per child than nearby suburban Virginia schools, and the black children still perform miserably in comparison. So since money doesn’t solve the problem, and we already have all-black schools, how do you propose we turn them into schools where black children can get an excellent education?
Everything you say is true. (And, with respect to the Israel/Palestine thing, although Arabs fled Israel, a large number of Jews fled Arab countries, losing their property. Plenty of blame to go around on all sides, as in all inter-communal struggles. The Jews of Europe jumped out of a burning building, and landed on the Palestinians. It's pointless to point the finger of blame. Rather, we have to try to work out the least-worst deal for everyone now. Unfortunately, pride and nationalism are powerful forces, and the Palestinians keep electing militant Islamists to represent them, as they did in Gaza. I think Israel has undergone changes over the last few years, but for a while, had a Palestinian leadership that genuinely wanted peace -- one supported by the Palestinian people -- offered a deal to the Israelis, we could have had one. But the one thing the Jews have learned is that if they are not able to defend themselves, with every bit of modern
schrechlikeit available, then, if they sart being genocided, the world will look away. So I'm pessimistic, not for the Jews in the Middle East, but for the Iranians, who look on course to commit nuclear-suicide-by-cop, and for the Palestinians in the West Bank, who I fear are going to give the hardliners in Israel an excuse to drive them out in a second
nakba. Whoa, Liz, darn it, you've got me started on a thread within a thread ... one where I can again offend both sides!)
Yes, I use the DC schools, where the expenditure per pupil is twice that of Florida's with much worse results, as a test-in-practice of why just spending more money won't get better results.
So what would get better results? Schools like Michaela, where the discipline is real and the teaching is of the sort that produced Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein., before 'progressive education' infected the teacher training establishment. You can only get that through School Choice (just as Michaela was a result of School Choice.)
And perhaps just that alone would suffice, although I would also favor Michaela-type teaching in rural military academies.
The point is this: we need something dramatic, radical, to totally change the outlook of young Blacks. Just telling them to pull up their socks and hit the books isn't working. There are lots of Black people who understand the problem.... but we don't have a solution.
So ... I re-examined people I have always, in the past, dismissed, the varous Black Islamic groups, and in particular the various incarnations of the Nation of Islam, the Black Muslims. (They've had various splits and transformations over the years, so there is not just one continuous group of Black Muslims.)
And guess what? They preach, and their followers observe, all the personal characteristics that conservatives honor! In fact, they're more puritan than most of us: they don't even drink alcohol. They honor the traditional family. They preach self-reliance and self-discipline. they instill a sense of pride -- genuine pride, not the phoney 'pride' of the entertainment industry -- in their members.
Now, I know that there are Black Christian groups that try to do this as well, and all honor to them. But if you become a Black Muslim, you can feel that you're rejecting the white man's religion, (and one that tells you to "turn the other cheek", not that the white man ever did that to you), that you're defying him, that you're not just trying to imitate whites and be a good little boy.
In a sense, it's what military service, expecially in a branch of the service like the Marine Corps or the Airborne, does on an individual level: show you how to be hard and tough and respected, without being an enemy of society.
There are two things that can pull people out of just following their immediate self-interest, that can make them make extraordinary efforts in pursuit of a greater good than just themselves and their immediate families: religion, and patriotism. Hook those two together, and you've got a powerful tool for personal transformation.
This is what the Black Nationalists do -- the real ones, I mean. (As in much else, including the conservative movement, there are plenty of hustlers using this powerful idea -- see one Ron Karenga.)[
Maulana Karenga - Wikipedia ]
Isn't there possibly something there that we ought to look at more closely?
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