Low-Income Blacks Being "Bamboozled And Hustled And Scammed" By Democrats

Jack said:
Praise God that we have you and Stretch leading on this. Without your efforts here at JPP, Blacks could wallow in their helplessness forever.
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Maybe Thomas Sowell can help you Jack? He knows a fuckton more than you about the problem.


A Legacy of Liberalism
By Dr. Thomas Sowell

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were "phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking." One of these phrases that substitute for thought today is one that depicts the current problems of blacks in America as "a legacy of slavery."

New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof asserts that there is "overwhelming evidence that centuries of racial subjugation still shape inequity in the 21st century" and he mentions "the lingering effects of slavery." But before we become overwhelmed, that evidence should be checked out.

The evidence offered by Mr. Kristof in the November 16th issue of the New York Times seems considerably short of overwhelming, to put it charitably. He cites a study showing that "counties in America that had a higher proportion of slaves in 1860 are still more unequal today." Has he never heard statisticians' repeated warnings that correlation is not causation?

The South long remained a region that blacks fled by the millions — for very good reasons. But, in more recent years, the net migration of blacks has been from the North to the South. No doubt they have good reasons for that as well.

But there is no reason to believe that blacks today are unaware of the history of slavery or of the Jim Crow era in the South. Indeed, there are black "leaders" who seem to talk about nothing else. Yet blacks who are moving back to the South seem more concerned with the present and the future than with the past.

Kristof's other "overwhelming" evidence of the current effects of past slavery is that blacks do not have as much income as whites. But Puerto Ricans do not have as much income as Japanese Americans. Mexican Americans do not have as much income as Cuban Americans. All sorts of people do not have as much income as all sorts of other people, not only in the United States, but in countries around the world. And most of these people were never enslaved.

If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on "the legacy of slavery" with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.

Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960. This was before any of those programs began.

Over the next 20 years, the poverty rate among blacks fell another 18 percentage points, compared to the 40-point drop in the previous 20 years. This was the continuation of a previous economic trend, at a slower rate of progress, not the economic grand deliverance proclaimed by liberals and self-serving black "leaders."

Ending the Jim Crow laws was a landmark achievement. But, despite the great proliferation of black political and other "leaders" that resulted from the laws and policies of the 1960s, nothing comparable happened economically. And there were serious retrogressions socially.

Nearly a hundred years of the supposed "legacy of slavery" found most black children being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent.

The murder rate among blacks in 1960 was one-half of what it became 20 years later, after a legacy of liberals' law enforcement policies. Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions. And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people in England, despite an absence of a "legacy of slavery" there.

If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed "legacy of slavery" they talk about. Liberals should heed the title of Jason Riley's insightful new book, "Please Stop Helping Us."

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-of-liberalism
 
Grajonca said:
Maybe Thomas Sowell can help you Jack? He knows a fuckton more than you about the problem.


https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-of-liberalism
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"If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on "the legacy of slavery" with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.

Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960. This was before any of those programs began.

Over the next 20 years, the poverty rate among blacks fell another 18 percentage points, compared to the 40-point drop in the previous 20 years. This was the continuation of a previous economic trend, at a slower rate of progress, not the economic grand deliverance proclaimed by liberals and self-serving black "leaders."

Ending the Jim Crow laws was a landmark achievement. But, despite the great proliferation of black political and other "leaders" that resulted from the laws and policies of the 1960s, nothing comparable happened economically. And there were serious retrogressions socially.

Nearly a hundred years of the supposed "legacy of slavery" found most black children being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent."

Right there...says it all. The left destroyed the family unit. Once that happens...well, it's what it looks like today with men being cast aside.
 
Sailor said:
This gentleman understands things. Look him up before you disparage him.


Civil rights activist Bob Woodson told FNC's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Friday that Democratic mayors like Chicago's Lori Lightfoot are neglecting the black communities in their cities.

"I believe that the salvation of this country ... will be the sleeping giant: When low-income Blacks wake up and realize that they are being bamboozled and hustled and scammed by people like Lori Lightfoot and others -- they are going to realize that they must address the enemy within," he said.

"There is evidence of the sleeping giant, the low-income leaders around the country are recognizing this, as in Washington [D.C.]. An 11-year-old boy was killed on the Fourth of July and the people demonstrated internally and said, no justice, no sleep. They picketed and made noise until the killers were turned in."

"What they are doing is falsely claiming that the failures of the last 60 years -- most urban centers all over the country have been run by liberal Democrats, many of them veterans of the civil rights movement who moved from civil rights, to run these cities -- They also had to spend about $22 trillion on poverty money in the cities and as a consequence, all of these inequities that they have been talking about have been done on their watch."

"Now the white left is coming in and exploiting the disparity and using it to really decimate the country, and the collateral damage are the lives of poor Blacks in these cities because what the left is doing is vilifying the police as agents of white supremacy and the more they are vilified, the less aggressive they are about enforcing laws and the more the murder rate rises," Woodson said.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/07/26/bob_woodson_low-income_blacks_being_bamboozled_and_hustled_and_scammed_by_democrats.html
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I love how you Trumpcucks flip-flop on racism. ;)
 
Jack said:
Are you promoting any concrete solutions, or is it just more of the 'But ... but Obama'?
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You've turned talking bollocks into an artform. Did you read the article ffs, where does it even mention Obama once?

Ending the Jim Crow laws was a landmark achievement. But, despite the great proliferation of black political and other "leaders" that resulted from the laws and policies of the 1960s, nothing comparable happened economically. And there were serious retrogressions socially.

Nearly a hundred years of the supposed "legacy of slavery" found most black children being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent.

The murder rate among blacks in 1960 was one-half of what it became 20 years later, after a legacy of liberals' law enforcement policies. Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions. And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people in England, despite an absence of a "legacy of slavery" there.
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Guille said:
Wanna bet on that?
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No and here is the main reason..during the Great Recessions blacks lost their houses more than whites which was blamed by many on racist predatory leaders but then I saw something where someone tracked down some of these blacks to see how it happened. What they found all too often was blacks had been signing loans that were purely ridiculous, there was never any chance that the debtor had enough income to service the loan, I mean it was obvious. When the journalist asked the black people why they would ever sign up for a loan that they had zero chance of paying to terms their answer was usually "We trusted the people handing out the loan, they abused us".

I got that feeling that there was a lot of this, a complete refusal to take responsibility, they were victims through and through.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
No and here is the main reason..during the Great Recessions blacks lost their houses more than whites which was blamed by many on racist predatory leaders but then I saw something where someone tracked down some of these blacks to see how it happened. What they found all too often was blacks had been signing loans that were purely ridiculous, there was never any chance that the debtor had enough income to service the loan, I mean it was obvious. When the journalist asked the black people why they would ever sign up for a loan that they had zero chance of paying to terms their answer was usually "We trusted the people handing out the loan, they abused us".

I got that feeling that there was a lot of this, a complete refusal to take responsibility, they were victims through and through.
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A lot of white people lost their homes too because they thought ARM's were good for them.
 
Guille said:
A lot of white people lost their homes too because they thought ARM's were good for them.
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There is a big difference between playing a very dangerous game and losing, and claiming that losing was all the lenders fault.

I like your sig by the way, for a lot of people it was close to that....sending Trump was intended to be a message.

The Elite took it as justification to burn America down to burn Trump out.
 
Darth Omar said:
Will be don the kente cloth next lol?

Big step I know, but we need to progress on this issue.
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I had to google that. Yeah I remember about donning the kente cloth.

I find it funny that every time I give an example of a Democrat politician condemning the violence, they always make excuses.
 
AProudLefty said:
LOL. Apparently the black politicians are doing just fine. :laugh:

Also the BLM protesters have nice clothes and shoes. :laugh:

Many own businesses. :laugh:

You are funny. ;)
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Lots of minority businesses destroyed during the riots-owners workers injured/killed...How did the BLM protestors get it so wrong...and continue to do so??
 
AProudLefty said:
I had to google that. Yeah I remember about donning the kente cloth.

I find it funny that every time I give an example of a Democrat politician condemning the violence, they always make excuses.
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The kente cloth photo op was pretty pathetic....are any in that photo condemning the violence?
 
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