Shelby Steele ponders that question, and comes up with some answers that won't please certain people.
Excerpts:
"While racism continues to exist, it no longer stunts the lives of blacks."
"It is heresy for any white or black to say openly that, today, underdevelopment and broken families are vastly greater problems for blacks than racism, even though this is obviously true."
"The great mistake Americans made after the civil rights victories of the '60s was to allow race to become a government-approved means to power. Here was the incentive to make racism into a faith. And its subsequent life as a faith has destroyed our ability to know the reality of racism in America. Today we live in a terrible ignorance that will no doubt last until we take race out of every aspect of public life — until we learn, as we did with religion, to separate it from the state."
I blogged about the Steele article too! Have a great holiday!
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Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteI found this passage in your blog piece to be on the mark:
"Race becomes an easy explanatory variable for the liberal media, and as Steele notes in the L.A. Times commentary, it gives the activist left some leverage of guilt in perpetuating race-conscious social policies."
I have been blogging about the true facts of racism in America forever it seems and everytime am called a racist and bigot. Tho I blame the social programs (welfare and off shoots)) that were set up essentially to help Blacks as being the actual destroyers of the Black under class, I hadn't gone so far as to call for their eradication, but this is the only way to stop the irresponsible behavior that is at the root of Black problems and disintegration. It took several generations to come to this point however and will take several after radical steps are taken to alleviate the problems for the results to start to show. High time then to get started. Now all I can think to say is, "Good Luck getting around the raving liberals!". You know of course that it took the "raving liberals" of the past generation to get all these laws passed in the first place. BB
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