thanks for rehashing the party line.
Please, Javelin…point us to this mythical “party line” that I’ve rehashed.
And while you’re at it, please refute the FACT that the 70s/early 80s saw a wave of business flight from urban areas due to high taxation.
And please refute the FACT that when jobs dried up due to this flight, small businesses in urban areas began to go under.
And please refute the FACT that when chronic unemployment set in these areas, levels of substance abuse and criminality exploded.
And please refute the FACT that when the black community began being hammered on the crucibles of unemployment, substance abuse, and criminality, there was a subsequent explosion of out-of-wedlock child births as millionsblack men were either too broke, too strung-out, or too locked up to be fathers to their children.
And please refute the FACT that a lack of strong, consistent male presence in black households has lead millions of neglected and forgotten young black males to desperately seek out and embrace the only supply of “maleness” that’s being offered to them in their communities – namely, the nihilistic culture of the “thug” and “gangsta”.
And please refute the FACT that when millions of black children have grown up in households where no one has ever worked, that those children are not going to have the work ethic that’s a necessary starting point for pulling one’s self out of poverty.
And then, considering all of the above, please explain how what we’ve seen happen in the black community over the past 40+ years is a mystery.
…blacks were the poorest element in the society, usually consigned to the menial services and agricultural laborer segment of the work force. They were always poorer than the equivalent whites.
Replace “blacks” with any other ethnic group that’s arrived in this country, and you’ve got the same story. The difference is that those groups were left alone to pull themselves up with their own hard work and through the resiliency and support of their families and communities…aspects of personal and community life that weren’t decimated by Leftist do-gooding, all so that underprivileged whites could “feel” good and “progressive”.
But at least most of them were employed and they had more stable families, which mitigated the worse aspects of being poor.
And which, if they had simply been left alone, would have been more than enough to begin a slow but steady integration into American society…much more so than has occurred with the “help” of the Left.
