The “Black Vote”
There is no such thing as the “black vote”. The Leftists’ attempt to herd us all into a category and try to select words to sway the lot of us at once is a trifle, a lollygag, and an irreverence. I am offended by them and their kind; however, I do not reject them. The only path forward is the path of Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass: the path of discussion, debate, and adult idea sharing.
Undoubtedly, the Democrat machine will attempt to thread the needle between racism, sexism, and myriad other isms, phobias, and other malarkey. They will thereby miss the lesson. The data is the data; and, the numbers are the numbers.
If we look at all the places where blacks are objectively doing the worse on every measure (income, death rate, fetal mortality, mother mortality, education, criminal justice, health, etc...) they all have blue city councils, blue mayors, blue commissioners, blue sheriffs, blue representatives, blue senators, blue everything. The numbers are the numbers; and, they are the same whether a blue or red is in the Presidency. This has been the case for decades. Local government should be our focus and the Democrats have left local control and local politics to the wayside for all of recent memory.
Here, in Texas, 34% of voting black men voted for Trump. There is something to be learned here that the "blue no matter who" people will miss if they continue down the same path they have been marching the last few decades. If the Democrats do not sit down and do some real introspection and a real post mortem regarding this red wave, it will never be rectified. So, rather than cherry picking the bad out of a 4-year-long political career (Trump) maybe Democrats should fix the bad out of a 60-year-long Democratic Party machine that has seen black male outcomes get worse, and worse, and worse.
I wish these discussions could air themselves in public view. We likely have reached a point in Democrat Party mechanics that wouldn’t allow for such conversations. It would appear that no one on the Left is willing to discuss things honestly, openly, and without vilifying their opposition. Everyone has much to learn and everyone has much to teach. Bill Nye is credited with saying, “everyone you will ever meet knows something you do not know.” Let’s all take a step back, bring the temperature down, and listen to one another. Last I checked, we were still a Federation of independent states, let’s be helpful to one another rather than obstructive.
Self Responsibility
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.”
Imported Negroes
Kamala Harris is black now! My stance is that this does not matter; this cannot matter to the black community.
No matter what her father is, he was not born here in the US. Kamala’s family does not have 5, 7, or 10 black generations of blood, sweat, and tears poured into this great nation. She is not a Foundational Black American (FBA). Why does this matter?
For 100 years, the deep state (Democrats and the Uniparty especially) has been trying to replace FBAs by using immigrants. When the Irish came, they elevated the Irish above the black, but not to the level of whiteness; that took time. Same with the Italians. Italians were not considered white until fairly recently; before being considered white, they were only as good as “not black”. Each time a new population enters the US, the Uniparty and Democrats elevate that group while subjugating FBA.
Barack Obama was not FBA either and he was elevated to the Presidency. If one wants to know the fullness of great replacement theory, look no further than the black leadership of the Democrat Party; they have never had FBA at the forefront. As we look upon the political landscape, we see FBA near or at the top of every political corner except the Democrat Party. Dr. Ben Carson, Byron Donalds, and Wesley Hunt are all pulling big numbers, big crowds, and providing guidance to the Republican Party. Libertarians have Maj Toure and Hotep Jesus. The Green Party have Cynthia McKinney and others. Cornell West is making his play with the Independents. No FBAs have any chance or opportunity inside the Democrat Party to rise to Vice President or President. None.
The Establishment is making a concerted, calculated effort to oppress blacks who were born here. Why? It is no secret that FBAs have taken the 1st Amendment by the reigns. Whites everywhere are expressing, “A white person could never say something like that!!!” to FBAs who are keeping it 100. This is more than mere perception; this is a reality. There are a number of posts on my social media (all public, just take a look) where a white person was suspended or otherwise restricted due to a post and I would copy the post and nothing would happen to me. The woke agenda does not allow for the punishment of blacks. If they cannot punish us, what can they do?
Since it is not in their measure to punish blacks, the woke extremists must find a different way to get blacks to comply. What they are doing is pushing abortion and importing like-minded, weak, anti-American blacks. 25% of blacks are murdered (1) before exiting the womb while they allow troves of unAmerican blacks to scurry across the border and repopulate minority communities; the black percentage won’t decrease, just the FBA percentage. Slowly, FBAs are waking up. There has been a sharp rise in interest for Immigration studies by FBAs. We can only hope that the pace quickens, and we can get to a 30% non-Democrat vote among blacks by November. For, surely, if Kamala is elected as President, we will have many struggles ahead.
(1) I used to be one of those “it is just a clump of cells” people. Then I lived through a miscarriage: no one ever said “Oh well, just a clump of cells, who cares!!!” Everyone said, “I am so sorry you lost the baby”.
Culture Gap
With all this talk about the "wealth gap" (which is a lie in this nation) we miss the more fundamental and far more important culture gap. This has been exemplified by Howard University and expressed as politely as possible by one of their Deans:
"Because of the size of the room, and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the Fire Department is now here to shut us down." - Gina S. Brown, Dean, Howard U. College of Nursing
The phrase "don't know how to act" is commonly used by blacks to distinguish us from those who bear a title less prudent than can be stated here. This culture gap is an issue of paramount importance; so much so, that it being left unchecked for decades has caused it to cancel a graduation. Ridiculous.
These kids did not walk for High School because of COVID. Now, they walk not for University because they have failed to withhold invitation from those who - for the sake of decorum - needn't arrive. Part of maturing is leaving behind those chains that bind you to your sophomoric past. I do not care whom they might be, if they are of the class of citizens who "don't know how to act," do not bring them to these places. Let this lesson be one learned, and learned well.
More generally, if we look at black persons in this nation we see this divide, this very clear divide, between the haves and the have nots. Racism cannot be a cause of such a divide because we’re all black. Birthright is also not to blame as the data show immigrant blacks performing just as well as well-off American blacks. Something else must be at cause. It is the culture and one’s capacity to leave that culture.
Using this latest Howard University debacle as a backdrop, we can see several key issues with certain cultural traits that are selected against.
The first and most obvious is punctuality. These people outside the ceremony had arrived after everyone else had already been seated; they were thus denied entry.
Second, we have entitlement. What right do they have to disrupt a private ceremony? None! Go home!
Third, there is a disregard for the rule of law. These people do not get to trample the rights of others simply because they have been inconvenienced. This behavior is indicative of a weak and childish culture.
Finally, we have selfishness. This ceremony was for the graduates and their instructors. Guests are not nearly the focus thereof. These acts - slamming doors, yelling, chanting, breaking glass, etcetera - are the acts of a self-important 7-year-old, not of well-governed adults.
No wonder the fire department shut the event down. These tyrants just outside the doors would be quelled only at the event’s cessation. I try to look on the bright side. The beauty of this event is that it cannot be swept under the rug by Leftist race-baiting. It should cause the black community to come together in the hopes of finding a solution to the cultural problem; it likely will not, but it should.
What would it look like to be rid of these cultural traits and retain the good parts? This is a solved problem and has been answered time and time again. We see it in the careers of Calvin Broadus Jr., Andre Romelle Young, and Curtis Jackson III. One can certainly create and consume Hip-Hop without having to act it out. One can certainly have locs, twists, and cornrows without being consumed by infantile madness. One can certainly be black without having to jettison morals, etiquette, and civility.
Not much in a free society can be done to directly cure this defect. The framers of our nation taught that ruling can be done by words or by power; we choose words. We can do nothing but speak and write about better a way, it is up to those in need to take up the lessons. The children of these juvenile adults are likely to become themselves juvenile adults. This is how gaps and disparities form and continue. This is the culture gap.