No Social Justice, No Votes for Liberals!
That should be the rallying cry of the poor and underprivelaged in America today, and any middle- and upper-class folks looking to help them out (I'm talking to you especially, fellow Catholics). Leading the charge could be a new cadre of black activists rallying our cities away from self-appointed "black leaders" dependant on racially profiling white America to lock up support for their failed agenda.
Sometimes it may seem like you can't get anything out of a sermon you've heard a hundred times. But there are preachers out there who can raise the roof on the church, no matter how many times we've heard the parable.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus want you to treat black Americans with respect and racially sensitive language. And if you don't, they will scream racial epithets at you.Armstrong Williams restates the case in such clear and concise prose, it resonates within me almost like it's the first time all over again.
By screaming, "You're just another arrogant white man," (Democratic U.S. Representative Melvin L.) Watt is able to corral some press and proclaim to black America that he is fighting for them. This is how people like Watt stay in power - by suggesting to black America that their problems are the result of arrogant white people who lack the ability to empathize with, or even work alongside, black people.This is a shameful secret shared by many of the old guard black leaders. They swept into power during a time of overt and institutionalized racism. Their galvanizing message was that all the problems confronting blacks were rooted in racism. Despite the immense social change that has occurred since then, they continue to cling to that message, for fear of falling into irrelevancy.
To this day, many members of the CBC depend on the perception of ongoing, widespread racism in order to remain competitive in the electoral process. They underplay the dramatic improvements in economic and social status blacks have experienced over the last 40 years. Large numbers of their constituents - particularly those who came of age during the overt racism of the past half century - continue to believe that the problems confronting the black lower class stem primarily from racism.
But as great as I think Williams' piece yesterday was, I think he didn't go far enough. He continues:
In the '60s and '70s this sort of black nationalism was integral to pushing basic civil rights issues into the mainstream. But clinging to that rhetoric turns issues of general welfare - such as housing and school reform - into "black issues." That makes it a lot easier for politicians to marginalize and ignore the problems facing our communities. Yes, racism exists. But continuing to isolate ourselves along the lines of black vs. white leaves us stuck in a dead end.And that, basically, is where he leaves it. He presumes you can put the pieces together and see where's he's led you. While I hope and pray and believe many will, I also believe those who need to hear what comes next won't.Herein lies the greatest missed opportunity of the civil rights movement: They never prepared for the day when whites would start treating minorities as equals. Their entire public image - their very legitimacy as political and cultural spokespersons - was predicated on the rhetoric of a black-vs.-white war.
America's inner cities continue to have problems. America's poor continue to struggle in the land of milk and honey. America's undereducated continue to be taught in failing schools by disgracefully inept teachers. America's youth continue to be led down the path of sin and depravity by a culture of death and violence peddled by "entertainers" who spew hate, vulgarity, and porn.
And many - if not most - of these underprivileged, undereducated, overfed, and overstimulated men, women, and children are... white.
The problems of the underclasses aren't "black". The failure to fix those problems isn't "white". These problems don't affect only one color or ethnicity - they affect all of America. And the failed policies were dreamed up by men and women of all colors, white and black alike.
Well, that's not exactly true. Their hearts all seem to bleed socialist Red.
It's time Americans took back their country from the racial demagogues of the Left. They have had forty years since the last brick was laid in the Welfare State, and since then that edifice has marred the American landscape while they adorn its walls with gaudy carpet and cover the chipping plaster with coat after coat of psychedelic paint. Social Justice - as my friends at church might call it - can and will be achieved by a color-blind free-market society freed from the shackles of socialism, and aided by the benevolence of the faithful - a society that we're on the verge of having right now. All it takes is the courage to defy the practitioners of negativity and hate, and work - yes, WORK FOR IT.
Which takes us to... Wictory Wednesday.
Every Wednesday we ask our readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign if they haven't done so already. We can't think of any better time to make this call this week thank in this post. If you have volunteered and donated, then get a friend to join you, and work for real justice for all Americans, regardless of class, creed, or color.
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Brilliant!
Posted by: Steve Johnson | July 21, 2004 07:13 AM