This is a lie. You are white and until you turn black and live, stop the attempts to gaslight. Reduced racism is not enough. The end of racism is the only satisfactory outcome. I will not be admitting things I am not doing. Whites ending their racism and lying about the problem is the only start.
You will not be admitting things you are not doing?
So, I guess we won't be reading about how you've taken on the full mantle of responsibility for improving your wretched, pathetic little negro existence.
We will, conversely, be reading your incessant whining about how white people owe you something.
You're owed nothing.
Deal with it...
On July 28, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. The more common name for this is The Kerner Commission. This commission was tasked to answer three basic questions pertaining to the racial unrest in American cities: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again? It is common knowledge how this commission deemed that two separate Americas existed, one for whites, the other for blacks.
“What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget--is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it. It is time now to turn with all the purpose at our command to the major unfinished business of this nation. It is time to adopt strategies for action that will produce quick and visible progress. It is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens-urban and rural, white and black, Spanish-surname, American Indian, and every minority group.”
Kerner Commission Report
On February 26, 2018, 50 years after the Kerner Commission findings, the Economic Policy Institute published a report evaluating the progress of the black community since the Kerner Report was released. It was based on a study done by the Economic Policy Institute that compared the progress of the black community with the condition of the black community at the time of the Kerner Commission. Titled
“50 years after the Kerner Commission,” the study’s central premise was that there had been some improvements in the situation blacks faced but there were still disadvantages blacks faced that were based on race.
Following up on this, Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute wrote an op ed published in the February 28th edition of the New York Daily News entitled,
“50 years after the Kerner Commission, minimal racial progress.” It had been 50 years since the commission made their recommendations at that point, yet Rothstein makes this statement:
“So little has changed since 1968 that the report remains worth reading as a near-contemporary description of racial inequality.”
There is a reason little has changed.
The commission recommended solutions based on the following 3 principles: 1.
“To mount programs on a scale equal to the dimension of the problems.” 2.”To aim these programs for high impact in the immediate future in order to close the gap between promise and performance.” 3.“To undertake new initiatives and experiments that can change the system of failure and frustration that now dominates the ghetto and weakens our society.”
As a result of this study the commission identified 12 `grievances common in the communities they visited: “
1. Police practices 2. Unemployment and underemployment 3. Inadequate housing. 4. Inadequate education 5. Poor recreation facilities and programs 6. Ineffectiveness of the political structure and grievance mechanisms. 7. Disrespectful white attitudes 8. Discriminatory administration of justice 9. Inadequacy of federal programs 10. Inadequacy of municipal services 11. Discriminatory consumer and credit practices 12. Inadequate welfare programs.”
These grievances still exist today. The Kerner Commission was tasked to find out why the racial unrest happened. Instead of blaming blacks for being angry about the way they were treated, instead of inventing terms like victim mentality, the commission took a long hard look at American societal issues. The bottom line is that the Kerner Commission determined in 1968 what blacks already knew and what whites refused to hear. This quote from Nathaniel Jones, Assistant General Counsel for the Commission says it all,
“One of the conclusions of the Kerner Report was that white racism was at work, was the cause of the upsets and the uprisings that we had. In fact, the report stated that white society created it, perpetuates it, and sustains it.” In other words, “The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism.”
Martin Luther King called it over 50 years ago. “
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” The Kerner Commission report is perhaps the finest study done on race in the history of this nation. As I wrote earlier, there is a reason why Rothstein came to his conclusion. We are now 52 years past the Kerner Commission findings. There has been little progress because at no level of government or society has America met even the first principle of the Kerner Commission.
“To mount programs on a scale equal to the dimension of the problems.”
People knowing nothing about responsibility want to lecture us on taking personal responsibility for our own situation. Since our situation is caused by white racism, we are personally responsible to point it out and then demand that it stop.