Self Responsibility
An image of a decades-old letter resurfaced on social media recently.
The community was quite upset about this image and began, as always, blaming evil-doers of old for all of our issues. I responded with some less-than-well-taken words:
“The fact that anyone was asking whites for anything back then is the sad story. We had our own thriving communities, we had our own high schools, universities, enterprises, everything.
The plight of the negroe is not the white man; the plight of the negroe is a yearning for acceptance from and admittance by the white man. Keep your head on a swivel, your powder dry, and your reflexes sharp.”
The most important lesson we can learn from history - all of us, not just black Americans - is the lesson that only reliance upon ourselves, our families, and our communities can lift us out of a bad situation in perpetuity. Reliance upon the Government or any particular economic model is folly: especially Government.
Back to the plight of the negroe. Time and time again, President after President, decade after decade, generation after generation; we find ourselves blaming the white man for our struggles. We, simultaneously, find ourselves begging the white man for our deliverance from our struggles. Be they reparations, Medicare, SNAP, minimum wage increases, or any other relief, we ask the same group we purport to be our captors and oppressors for the relief sought. This, to me, makes absolutely no sense.
There are plenty of well-to-do blacks. There are plenty of well-educated blacks. There are plenty of cities run entirely by blacks. Still, the struggle persists. There may be something outside the white man that can cause the struggle to continue. Surely, if the issue were the white man alone, the immigrant blacks who enter this nation would be doing just as poorly as those born here; the data show they are thriving.
Like with the image at the head of this discussion, every piece of information is construed by the FBA (and even more so by the ADOS) to imply white supremacy is their issue. Every piece of information. We see it on social media. We see it in the news. We see it in movies and TV. The FBA largely (not all of us of course) blames people it has never met for its troubles rather than blaming the very people who run their municipalities and cities. People know who wrote this random letter but do not know who is on their school board. It is a disgrace.
We see everywhere black excellence exemplified.
Freedom, Georgia was created and realized when 19 families (a community) came together to create it.
Nicholas Irving is a highly decorated (and record-holding) US sniper, author, and speaker.
Hell, even I have some globally recognized accolades under my belt.
The list goes on, and on, and on, and on. Yet, still, to this very date, there are lazy, unrelenting, cry babies asking to get something for nothing. There is NO EXCUSE for an able-bodied man to fail in this nation. None. The message of “the white man did it” fails to hold water. The new message should be “get up, and get to work.”