Op-ed:
The Lie of Black Victimhood
By:
Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots
“We will not be free
until we reach down to the depths of our souls and sign with the pen and ink of
assertive manhood our own emancipation.”
-
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This past Monday on FOX News, in response to the newest round of black-on
black-violence in Chicago’s inner city, Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke called
for the end of America’s inner-city 'ghettos'…a just cause for sure but he
forgets one important factor...as in you can rid a city of the physical buildings of
its inner city 'ghettos' but unless you rid the 'you owe me...gimme-gimme'
mindset of the people who live in said 'ghettos' it does not matter how many
shiny new buildings are built for within a short period of time those buildings
themselves will be turned back into the very same 'ghettos' its inhabitants
came from.
And why…because many black Americans…most especially those
living in America’s inner cities…continue to have and relish in living in a
‘culture of poverty’ mentality…a mentality that plays well into their never
ending cycle of self-perceived victimhood…a victimhood they believe is based
solely upon the color of their skin.
But the color of their skin is exactly what affords them
‘free stuff’…lots and lots of ‘free stuff’…and they know it. But that ‘free
stuff’ comes with a hefty price tag but not a price tag in dollars and cents
per se, but a price tag of continuing the seemingly unending cycle of
victimhood they seem not to be able to or want to break free of. And what’s
even sadder is that by continuing to relish in their self-inflicted victimhood
status, black people are not only harming themselves, their families, and America’s
black communities in general, they are also denying themselves and their
children something critical to any people’s well-being, and that is simply a ‘future.’
And it’s the ‘future’ that sets one free from the past no
matter if that past was just or not.
Forgetting that all peoples have a past but a past they’ve
moved on from, many of today’s black leaders feed into the present Obama caused
newest racial divide and help to perpetrate the myth of the past that blacks
are powerless to change their current lot in life. Using their own people for
their own political and monetary gain, some of today’s black leaders…especially
the likes of the anything but Reverend Al Sharpton and political hack Jesse
Jackson…are actually the cause of the ongoing continuation of the all-encompassing
victim mentality sadly overwhelming many of today’s black youth.
Remember, children are any people’s future but when black children
think it’s ‘cool’ to be thugs…when black children make ‘street creed’ their
chosen source of education…when they see their current socio-economic ‘low man
on the totem pole’ status as a given…and when black children have ingrained in
their psyches a generation after generation mindset that things will only
change for the better if and when the white man’s so-called ‘system’ changes to
bend to their wants and needs, then you just know that all roads traveled will
indeed lead nowhere for the concept of personal responsibility and personal achievement
remains not only unknown to them but is deliberately kept from them.
And lacking personal responsibility for one’s actions
equates to complacency for the unbold…people who lack the courage to move on
from wallowing in the past and embrace all the possibilities the future just
might offer… offer that is if one has enough self-determination to not only see but
to realize that the future is their only way to escape their always in their
eyes dismal past…and to escape the inner-cities that they see as their prison
of sorts.
But when the concept of achievement also remains foreign to
them, the past coupled with their disillusionment of the present truly closes
the door to any semblance of a brighter future…in fact the word ‘subverts’ actually
comes to mind.
But what steps are needed to gain personal responsibility and
at least plant the seeds about the will to achieve especially in today’s inner
city black youth…especially in young black men?
To start with they must understand that groups like ‘Black
Lives Matter’ are not now nor will they ever be the answer to their problems.
Groups like this feed off of hate and prejudice, and help to expound the myth
of black victimhood. Black Lives Matter hides behind the false claim and bravado that they
are working for
“the validity of Black
life” but what they don’t say is they are doing so at the expense of white
lives…of police lives…as their true goal is to rebuild the Black Liberation Movement…a
movement from the 1970’s and 1980’s that espoused violence and assault against self-perceived
“U.S. imperialism” and to bring about black
liberation though socialism.
And groups like Black Lives Matter deem that to be a true
and proud black person…not one of those ‘Uncle Tom’ blacks who have
successfully left the ghetto behind and who they see as sellouts to ‘whitey’…one
must be of their self-dictated black-power mindset that pushes forward the lie
about blacks as perennial victims of an oppressive white society that affords
them nothing but to continue to suffer from both unrelenting racism and
discrimination. Each and every problem blacks have, according to these sorts, is
the fault of the white man along with the notion that all young black man
killed by the police are innocent victims of targeted police brutality against
them.
Believing that black people are intentionally left powerless
at the hands of the state and that they are “deprived
of basic human rights and dignity”…which is quite untrue as black people
are afforded the same rights under
the law as white people are and no person alive today ‘owned’ anybody…Black
Lives Matter ignores the fact that, sadly, many if not most of the inner-city black
communities are riddled with drugs and violence, and that alone aids in the
destruction of said communities as well as nullifying the importance of black lives.
And it’s black children who suffer the most but if truth be told, older black
youth and black adults themselves are also to blame for allowing this to infiltration of sorts to happen
for they are of the mindset that it's easier to make a buck selling drugs than it is to exist on
minimum wage or to take the time to better themselves through education.
And it’s education that is the key to any peoples successful
future for academics coupled with a positive work ethic truly does, as the old
saying goes, "set a people free"…and to which I add, "from the chains that bind
them to the past."
And that means that black parents must stress the importance of
an education instead of seeing school as a free babysitting service. Black
parents must get involved in their children's education through volunteering,
making sure their kids homework is done, and they must attend PTA and school
board meetings, as well as take part in classroom special activities. And very
importantly they must stay on top of curriculum and make sure their children
can read up to grade level, but simply put black parents must be involved in
every aspect of their children's education just like most…but obviously not
all…white parents are.
“Nothing is so much
needed as a secure family life for a people to pull themselves out of poverty.” - Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
And equally as important as getting a good education is that
black families must be made whole again for most inner-city kids come from
single-parent households or households with 'multiple daddies' of multiple
kids...and this is anything but an ideal situation for achievement. This is
street culture at its worst and actually goes against what black people once valued
most…the family.
But blacks must accept as fact that change doesn't happen
overnight but it does happen with consistency, involvement, and above all else love
for their children...as in getting rid of the mindset that kids are a free ride
to more welfare monies and more ‘free stuff’ especially now with unwed pregnancies
being government subsidized no matter the number of children any given woman has. Only then
can blacks still living in poverty…blacks suffering the scourge of unemployment
coupled with the ever-growing number of black men who flood America’s court and
penal system in highly disproportionate levels to their population numbers…begin
to see a ‘future’ of possibilities at the end of the ongoing poverty tunnel.
And it’s these disproportionate numbers that tell the story of the collapse of the black family unit…a unit that once
consisted of a married to the mother working black father who together set a
positive example for their sons and daughters. But somehow within the last few
decades that has been lost making the collapse of the black family the true root
cause of all black American’s current woes whether they choose to face that
reality or not.
And that reality means that neither slavery nor its
aftermath…an aftermath that includes segregation…is the cause of the demise of
the black family. What is the cause, in no uncertain terms, is former president
Lyndon Baines Johnson’s (LBJ) and the Democrats 1964 welfare crutch known as ‘The
War on Poverty’ which made generations of blacks beholden to them and bringing
to life one of LBJ’s most infamous of quotes, “I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for 200 years.”
In other words…welfare…as in a life lived off of ‘free
stuff.’
Taking away from blacks the individual freedom of choice if
you will…as in the freedom to decide their own destiny and fate…the Democrats
replaced said freedom with
“collective
subjugation” to a system that caters to what the system hierarchy…as
in the federal government… deems to be every black person’s wants and
needs,
and with anti-marriage incentives built into that very system using
‘free stuff’
as the bait to draw them in.
And it was the introduction of ‘free stuff’ via welfare that
became the death knell for the black family as the 1970’s saw blacks
moving from
outlining areas back into urban areas en-masse, and with it black men
were now
being denied jobs...jobs that had now became unionized...jobs that once
allowed them to financially provide for their families. And this
lead to more and more welfare programs to provide assistance to the now
increasing numbers of single black women with dependent children because
the men in their shame of not being able to provide for their families
high-tailed it and took off.
And
these welfare programs…programs that pretended to be compassionate in
their heralding
of social justice above all else…actually masked provisions that offered
economic
incentives for one’s turning their back on marriage thus avoiding the
formation
of once typical two-parent black families. And this in turn has led to
generations of
blacks continuing to live in poverty without the will to achieve because
of their
very dependence on the ‘free stuff’ the government was and still is so
willing to give to them in exchange for their all-important vote.
So with LBJ’s infamous words now having not only come true
but having come back to haunt is the price black people have paid for their ‘free
stuff’ for in their misguided and unwavering loyalty to the very party…the
Democratic party who gave us the KKK, hangings, Jim Crow, poll taxes, literacy
tests, and failed policies like the War on Poverty, the anything but Great
Society, and Affirmative Action…has allowed blacks themselves to destroy their own
families and they sadly don’t even see it.
And only when the majority of black Americans stop seeing
and thinking of themselves as victims…only when black Americans say no
to groups like Black
Lives Matter and the New Black Panthers…only when intact black families
once again become
the norm and not the exception…only when black youth start taking
responsibility for their actions...only then will the dream that is
America…a dream
that the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed and some black
Americans have achieved…only then will the cycle of
poverty be broken and will Sheriff David Clark’s above said dream of no
more ‘inner-city’
ghettos become a reality.
GOP nominee Donald Trump did not give a rally speech Wednesday night
in Phoenix, Arizona. He offered a detailed policy speech to the crowd
about his immigration policy. Pretty early on, it was evident those
media reports about a “softening” of his immigration plan were way off
base.
