Yeah, but they've only been blaming Bush for 8 years. They've been blaming everythingunderthesun for problems caused by blacks within the present-day black community for decades.
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 6:13:29 AM UTC-4, gtheist957 wrote: > > It's like blaming bush it only works for so long. > > On Aug 1, 2016 10:30 PM, "'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum" < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> When Eric Holder claimed that Americans were too cowardly to have an >> honest conversation on race, all I could think was he's right - because too >> many people actually believe the countless bs excuses detailed above for >> why so many black people struggle in America, and too many others are >> either afraid or tired of being attacked for having that honest >> conversation that accurately pinpoints the blame on the breakdown of the >> families and the utter disdain for education held by far too many. And >> yeah, it doesn't help that blacks trapped in failing schools in the >> nation's largest cities keep electing democrats who have proven for years >> that it's never about the kids, but rather always about the teacher's >> unions' money. >> >> On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 10:35:49 AM UTC-4, MJ wrote: >>> >>> >>> July 27, 2016 >>> >>> *What Can Discrimination Explain? *By Walter E.Williams >>> >>> A guiding principle for physicians is primum non nocere, the Latin >>> expression for "first, do no harm." In order not to do harm, whether it's >>> with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is >>> accurate diagnostics. >>> >>> Racial discrimination is seen as the cause of many problems of black >>> Americans. No one argues that racial discrimination does not exist or does >>> not have effects. The relevant question, as far as policy and resource >>> allocation are concerned, is: How much of what we see is caused by current >>> racial discrimination? >>> >>> From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, black youth unemployment was >>> slightly less than or equal to white youth unemployment. Today black youth >>> unemployment is at least double that of white youth unemployment. Would >>> anyone try to explain the difference with the argument that there was less >>> racial discrimination during the '40s and '50s than today? >>> >>> Some argue that it is the "legacy of slavery" and societal racism that >>> now explain the social pathology in many black neighborhoods. Today's black >>> illegitimacy rate is about 73 percent. When I was a youngster, during the >>> 1940s, illegitimacy was around 15 percent. In the same period, about 80 >>> percent of black children were born inside marriage. In fact, historian >>> Herbert Gutman, in an article titled "Persistent Myths about the >>> Afro-American Family" in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn >>> 1975), reported the percentage of black two-parent families, depending on >>> the city, ranged from 75 to 90 percent. Today only a little over 30 percent >>> of black children are raised in two-parent households. The importance of >>> these and other statistics showing greater stability and less pathology >>> among blacks in earlier periods is that they put a lie to today's excuses. >>> Namely, at a time when blacks were closer to slavery, faced far more >>> discrimination, faced more poverty and had fewer opportunities, there was >>> not the kind of social pathology and weak family structure we see today. >>> >>> According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes >>> referred to as The Nation's Report Card, nationally, the average black >>> 12th-grader's test scores are either basic or below basic in reading, >>> writing, math and science. "Below basic" is the score received when a >>> student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and >>> skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. "Basic" >>> indicates only partial mastery. Put another way, the average black >>> 12th-grader has the academic achievement level of the average white >>> seventh- or eighth-grader. In some cities, there's even a larger >>> achievement gap. >>> >>> Is this a result of racial discrimination? Hardly. The cities where >>> black academic achievement is the lowest are the very cities where >>> Democrats have been in charge for decades and where blacks have been >>> mayors, city councilors, superintendents, school principals and teachers. >>> Plus, these cities have large educational budgets. I am not arguing a >>> causal relationship between black political control and poor performance. I >>> am arguing that one would be hard put to blame the academic rot on racial >>> discrimination. If the Ku Klux Klan wanted to destroy black academic >>> achievement, it could not find a better means for doing so than encouraging >>> the educational status quo in most cities. >>> >>> Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of so many >>> blacks on poverty, racial discrimination and the "legacy of slavery" are >>> complicit in the socio-economic and moral decay. But one can earn money, >>> prestige and power in the victimhood game. As Booker T. Washington long ago >>> observed, "there is another class of coloured people who make a business of >>> keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race >>> before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out >>> of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising >>> their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it >>> pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, >>> because they do not want to lose their jobs." >>> >>> http://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams >>> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. >> * Read the latest breaking news, and more. >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "PoliticalForum" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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