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| Racism - Real = A simple-minded assumption Perceived = A manipulative accusation The police in the UK understood they would be crucified in the press if they investigated the Pakistani sex trafficking of young girls. As a result they turned a blind eye to the evil deeds done against their own youth. A similar problem was present in the American South in the 1920s. Law enforcement, instead of being incapacitated by the press, was tied to the prevailing view of black inferiority. When the automobile was introduced, drunk young men of the baser sort discovered they could go slaughter blacks with little risk of arrest. This was actual racism in it’s most grim form. There were two parallel ideas about blacks in segregation in the 1920s. The integration idea and the development from within idea. The integration idea received funding from various foundations and emerged as the approach that liberal whites embraced. As a result, blacks with abilities left their communities, went to college, got jobs in corporations and government, and made new homes in suburbia. Left behind were those with lesser abilities whose families were destroyed and communities ravaged by drugs and alcohol as well as gang activity. Similar to those Native Americans of ability that integrated out of the reservation, or the white flight from Appalachia.    The self righteous social activists in the 1950s and 60s used confrontation to accelerate the changes that were happening anyway in the South. As a result, 150 race riots in 1967 and 100 more in 1968 were indicative of the anger and frustration that had been encouraged to be demonstrated. The FBI was sure that these had been aggravated by Soviet agents. In reality, fellow travelers (home grown socialists and communists) who had been active in labor disputes had branched out to student recruitment for racial activism.  The abandonment of these communities by those seeking better opportunities for themselves, should have been expected. The Democrats sought to gain political advantage by passing legislation that pumped Federal money into the economically disadvantaged areas. Thomas Sowell spoke to the damage these policies caused to black families further damaging these communities and creating dependencies on governmental handouts.  The black comedian Dick Gregory once said in his comedy routine that if someone was told he had to make love to a black black woman or a white white woman and the black black woman was Lena Horne and the white white woman was Kate Smith what you would find was that race mattered much less than attractiveness. This was back when people could still joke about race.   The risk of being called “racist” became so great that people would do anything to show that they weren’t. Even the threat of being called a racist created such cowardice that it was sufficient blackmail for race hustlers to make comfortable livings for themselves from corporations. However, this time may be passing. Trump has shown that being called “Hitler” is not the death sentence it used to be. Perhaps one might be able to mention aspects of race in the future without coming into reflexive condemnation. Consider the thought experiment where one is leaving the cash register in a cafeteria with a tray of food. There are two tables, each with one seat open. One table has all black people and one table has all white people. Which one would you choose to sit at.    A Dick Gregory variation on this thought experiment is that the white people were bikers and the black people were all well-dressed and studying the bible. All people have racial preferences along with all sorts of other preferences. If the person hated Christians, he might sit with the bikers. If the person was concerned about safety, he might sit with the Christians. In a way, what was seen as issues of race might now be more accurately seen as issues of class, culture, or even as issues of ability. In the movie “Absolute Power” a thief was looking into moving out of the country with his money because his life was at risk. The gal advising him on this says that her “runners” are usually dead within five years. The implication being that surviving in an alien environment is so difficult that even with money, it can lead to suicide. This perhaps captures some of the distress of the unfamiliar. This has bearing on what is called race, but may actually mean culture. “Integration” appears mostly to have been a vehicle for people with ability (black, white, and red) to abandon their old communities for the personal comfort of enclave life. The absence of the stabilizing influence their presence could have had allowed their former neighbors to sink into the chaos of single parent homes, drug and alcohol abuse, and crime.  Some have found that even in comfortable enclaves, the lack of real friends and close family, and having politely distant neighbors, that a circumscribed life may not be as rewarding as had been anticipated.   This might be seen as an example of how Satan presents a package that superficially looks good, only to find out that it contains poison. Using blacks as an example, some of them have obtained increased prosperity. However, one has to ask if a 50% rate of fatherless homes, a 0.23% incarceration rate, a 400% higher rate of abortions than whites, and a 21% welfare rate was worth it. The social activism that led to the race riots of the 1960s was similar to the social activism that led to the George Floyd riots, these being based on the mistaken report that an innocent black man had been murdered by the police, when he actually died from an overdose of drugs that he was trying to hide from the police. It is difficult to see the race hatred stoked by the social activists as accomplishing anything more beneficial than allowing strutting activists to demonstrate their self-righteous indignancy. A lot of people have paid a high price for the comfort of a few.  |
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