6.
Coulter articulated the Moynihan belief that blacks could accomplish everything any other group did, simply by allowing their passage through the immigrant process....
.benign neglect. The problem was that they were āhelpedā by folks who had very different interests in mindā¦.their own interests.
āIt was the misfortune of black Americans that they were just on the verge of passing through the immigrant experience when damaging ideas about welfare and the lenient attitude about crime took hold. It could have happened to the Italians, Germans, Jews or Irish, but luckily for them, there were no Liberals around to āhelpā when they arrived.ā
7. In fact, black Americans were doing better in individual pursuits than many immigrants. Barone compared their American journey to the Irish: āBoth rise smartly in hierarchies (government bureaucracies, the military) but haven't fared as well in free-market commerce.ā
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āLike members of outsider groups before and since, this African-American elite considered education to be the key to full citizenship. They also embraced values of character and responsibilityā¦.Gains in terms of entrepreneurship, finding a trade, finding a profession, setting down roots, buying property, and feeling they were at last becoming a genuine part of city life. They would refer to ācolor-phobiaā as āfast disappearing in our city.āā¦Peterson's great grandfather owned a pharmacy in a largely Irish neighborhood. ā
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Black Gotham," by University of Maryland Professor Carla Peterson.
For almost a century after the Civil War, black Americans had good reason to have a chip on their shoulder, but, somewhat amazingly, most did not- until Liberals put it there.
There was a noticeable absence of resentment in many accomplished black Americans a generation or two out of slavery- Kelly Miller, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Archibald Henry Grimke, George Washington Carver, Jack Johnson, Huddie Ledbetter, Louis Armstrong, Thurgood Marshall, Joe Louis, etc.
Then along came the Democrat 'helpers.'