There is a problem that polite society doesn’t like to discuss, and that is…cultural assimilation will track only…if and when, assimilation becomes an accepted goal.
A black child has a worse than even bet chance of being born into a single mother home. The traditional role of the father in the family is an unassimilated norm in much of black society. For reasons why this may be true, the following is a pretty good article:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html
Leftist whites have kept blacks in a destructive mindset which opportunist black “leaders” have co-opted for financial gain and national recognition.
The fact remains, White/Asian culture puts a premium on certain behaviors, norms and mores that place a stigma on “bad behavior” and place a premium on “good behavior” that comports with traditional values of white society.
Education is a prized weapon in the arsenal of white/Asian kids and they are praised for hard work and achievement. In segments of black society (and some Latino segments, although not nearly as widespread)…academic achievement is “acting white” and is stigmatized, rather than culturally applauded.
Being a responsible father, not having kids with multiple women, providing for the needs of your children…are not behaviors unique to white/Asian men….but there would be an enormous stigma attached to white/Asian members of that culture for “bad behavior” in those situatons. There could exist no excuse (poverty, loss of job etc) which would remove the stigma or “excuse” the behavior.
If 65-70% of black children are born into single mother families, and black culture says…”well, you know…that’s the white man’s fault”…that issue isn’t going to go away.
It really doesn’t matter to the outcome, whether or not the argument that “bad behavior” has SOME basis in blame on somebody else. Culturally, if the instinct to eradicate the unwanted behavior is not stronger than the instinct to alibi for it…it will simply never disappear.
If blacks want to really move up, move forward, get ahead…they have start facing forward…not backward. They are “mooning the future” if they spend the bulk of their psychic energy immersed in real and imagined slights, grievances and ills of years, decades and centuries before they were born.
This is not to suggest that such issues are not real or did not happen or aren’t important, historically or should be forgotten and dismissed entirely. It is simply to point out that continually clutching to those grievances has not been effective in overcoming them, nor will it ever be.
If one wants the achievements, accomplishments, successes of white/Asian society…then the goal must be to assimilate the cultural behaviors, norms and mores that lead to the success. (and to freely not assimilate any behaviors that are unrelated or are unnecessary to that goal)
Either change the goal, or adopt the pathway to achieve the goal. Those are the options.
Perhaps not adopting the goal is not as outrageous as it might appear at first blush. Overwhelmingly, on a worldwide basis…(based upon gross domestic product, economic development, literacy, advanced education, computer and technological advancments)….certain cultures prefer a more laid back, less money-based lifestyle. Nothing wrong with that. Certainly stress levels may be measured on how “success” is measured and achieved.
However, if “poverty” is to be measured as an intra-America yardstick (as opposed to what “poverty” means in other predominatnly black parts of the world), then non-poverty…or “success” has to be measured by the same yardstick.
Saying “I want to have all the “successes” of white/Asian society…but I refuse to adopt the values, mores, and goals…makes it a rough road to hoe. It hasn’t worked to date and it is likely to never work.
What blacks in this country have been lead to believe, is that white leftists are “helping” them get ahead. In reality, the great irony is that it is the one single attachment that has kept them back in greater degrees and in larger numbers, more than any other single factor.
If they want to get ahead faster, further and to greater heights…dropping leftism like a a sack of dead dead rats in a very heavy backpack…is the quickest route. Play the victim, you become the victim, act the victim, you stay the victim.
65-70% of the future kids deserve a better chance from the people who are bringing them into this world. Teach them how to achieve by facing the future with them.
