“ENDEMIC FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOLS” . An unforgettable TV momenT, James McWhorter, the Black scholar, rose and spoke of black children who believe that “reading’s a white thing.” This single idea is more toxic and destructive of advancement than almost any other I can think of.
Frederick Douglass, the great Black orator, learned to read while still a slave, escaped from slavery and became a great leader. The current issue of WEEKLY STANDARD has much more information about him and the heroic and beautiful Somali woman, Aayan Hirsi Ali who is in hiding because Muslims want to kill her as they did Theodore VanGogh for a documentary he made critical of Islam. You’re not allowed to leave the Muslim religion on pain of death. Scary.
I had lousy teachers in public schooLs dominated by the Manhattan Marxist Mafia, but my grandmother had taught me to read using phonics and once I had that skill there was no stopping me.
Asian-American students can have lousy teachers but still succeed because their parents won’t accept academic failure. They study in groups which is perfect because in any group someone will be good at language, another at math, another at science and they can coach each other.
WELFARE: The Black family remained intact through bad times but welfare demanded that before giving a woman and her children money there could be no man in the house. THAT policy alone did more to break up the black family than the depression had done. I have read that after emancipation black men went from state to state looking for their wives and children who had often been sold off elsewhere.
CRIME: Mr. Hutchinson writes of “the stigma of a criminal record” Whose fault is a criminal record? I remember reading a famous Black novel in which the hero “accidentally” kills a whie man. Then, I read it again in another Black novel. Who does that kind of thing?
JOB DISCRIMINATION: Well, the truth is that because of noisy civil rights leaders, you can’t fire an incompetent Black person. Inevitably, they will charge racism even if some of the witnesses against them are Black!
The only time in my life I ever heard white people laugh at Blacks was during the Million Man March, which took place on a work day. For decades, only another Black, such as Chris Rock, could mock Black men for promising to take care of their families, something every other group does as a matter of course.
The usual suspects criticized The original Cosby Show because it didn’t show “realistic” family life. No. The Cosby Show presented what could be and should be, an upper middle-class couple comprised of a Doctor and Lawyer and their children and grandparents. Many young Blacks saw the possibilities which they then pursued? And the Black middle class grew. As a child Whoopi Goldberg saw Nichelle Nichol in STAR TREK and ran through the house excited that a TV show was showing a Black woman who was not a maid.
What other group has leaders? What other group ties up traffic and keeps people from getting to work on time with demonstrations?
I thought the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott was a brilliant idea. It worked. It would have been very effective to take it further. National companies with branches in the South which refused to hire blacks could have faced boycotts.
Today, millions of people are boycotting leftist stars, films, magazines and newspapers. And it’s working. Boycotts not demonstrations.
Everyone was thrilled by the Obama win in Iowa. At last, the days of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were over. Then, we were introduced to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Black liberation theology, and most frightening of all, Obama’s cousin Odinga and half-brother Abongo Obama, who having lost the 2007 election in Kenya which would have brought in Muslim Sharia law proceeded to herd Christian men, women and children into a church and burn them to death. You won’t fight this story “put in context”on Obam’s site “Fight The Smear”. You will find many references if you google Odinga Obama.
