The destruction of Baltimore provides an opportunity for the black community to stop blaming white people, and take responsibility. Because Baltimore City is two-thirds black, and is run by black people.
I was listening to NPR yesterday, and they were trying to pull their usual white progressive nonsense about how it was a lack of money for the schools, social injustice, etc. etc.
That is complete bullshit. Baltimore schools have plenty of money, but the students run off good teachers and destroy their property. I have blogged about this several times in the past year.
White progressives are doing everything they can to keep the black community down, by feeding the culture of blame and entitlement.
If we could just get typical white progressives like Barack Obama and NPR to shut up and quit being openly racist toward blacks and whites, Baltimore could use this as a moment to move forwards.
Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America’s problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind, and every city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/28/baltimore-is-a-democrat-problem-not-americas-problem/
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/108/c/d/Obama__s_Motive_by_Conservatoons.jpg
Surely you jest?!
While PC-Progressives of other races are to blame, the hip-hop culture is doing excellent work destroying Baltimore’s chances, all by itself, thank you very much.
There’s no need to ascribe blame to others. Responsibility for oneself is the first requirement for change.
Want to see a fascinating snapshot of the state of the culture?
Look at the graph in the below article, breaking down Social Studies competency by race/ethnicity.
QED.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-students-stagnate-in-social-studies-1430280062
The point is that until people take responsibility, they can’t fix their problems.
Please Steve. “take responsibility”? I would bet none of them even have a job.
Toya Graham is a single mother of six. While she was taking responsibility for her son’s behavior, she’s a single mother of six. There’s a lot of personal responsibility that needs to be fully discussed.
…and, as Tony pointed out, it is progressive policy and leaders that encourage the angst and “I am owed” mentality in a culture lacking in morals and family structure Just as Jihadists profit from the “plight” of Palestinians, the progressive movement profits from perpetuating “victims”. The young men in the inner cities did not become irresponsible on their own, they were educated and paid to become that way.
Interesting graph, but not surprising. Should I feel that I am oppressed by Asians?
The Blacks blame the Aisans for ‘stealling all the good grades’. I read this somewhere over a decade ago so the following should not have been a surprise.
Asians Penalized 50 Points On SAT – Black Students Given 230 Bonus Points…
Don’t let your jaw drop too far, this fundamental change is not just happening in college application processes. This exact same methodology is also being applied to Credit Scores for home mortgages and car loans. – Sundance
And so it goes: Black Lives Matter’ Protests Have Black Students With Failing Grades Demanding A Free Pass
Yes, I remember seeing that too, and thankfully I had forgotten about it.
I hope I can someday forget about our first Affirmitive Action POTUS.
https://youtu.be/cesSRfXqS1Q
https://youtu.be/QCclQQKDuuM
We have had a ‘Blame Someone Else’ culture for a while. Lord help you if a child, not being watched carefully by a parent who is present, hurts himself on your propery or even in your vicinity. In an American court of law the ADULT WHO IS NOT RELATED is the one held responsible.
I learned this when a lawsuit backfired. A friend had a nasty dog that was kept in the house. His brother-in-law showed up with girl friend and gir friend’s child in tow. No one was home but the 15 year old daugher. When she openned the door the dog got out of her control and bit the child. Brother-in-law told his girl friend to sue. When it all was settled the judge nailed the brother-in-law as the only adult present not related to the child. (Karma can be sweet sometimes.)
You can trace the ‘Blame Someone Else’ culture to the psychologists couch and track that back to the funding of modern child-rearing practices.
The Hand that Rocked the Cradle: A Critical Analysis of Rockefeller Philanthropic Funding
“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” —David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405
Gail, thanks for posting that. On the quirky side, it’s informative because I sent my son to a Gesell Institute nursery school for a year or two. Other than keeping him off the street, the effect was nil.
The final paragraph by David Rockefeller is astonishing. Read carefully, and construed as written, it confesses to having worked against the best interests of the United States. I’d be tempted to say, “Aha!”, but this couldn’t have been what he meant to say. How a leading international banker could be so incompetent in writing is a mystery to me.
David Rockefeller turns 100 on June 12 of this year. Memoirs is his Autobiography and he is BRAGGING about his role in the destruction of the USA which is necessary to usher in a world government. I think this major push for a world government happening now is because he is 100 and he wants to see the fruit of his labor a reality before he dies. Hopefully it is too early and we can stop him.
There is a photograph of the page in question here.
People like Rockefeller and Soros seem to acquire God complexes with the acquisition of great wealth…
“I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god”
-George Soros
“I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.”
-George Soros
Gail Combs, I had a look at the page. Thanks.
Senility? The way to write what he wanted to convey is that world government is in the “higher interests” of the United States, and that he is proud to have advanced the cause. There is no way he accomplishes anything for his cause by openly announcing that it is against the interests of the US, even if he believes it to be true. So I continue to believe that he is an incompetent writer.
However, you may be right in thinking, if I may read between the lines, that he is a despicable man.
The Rockefellers playing around with education, medical care, and just about everything one can think of with regards to shaping society is something people in general simply refuse to learn and accept. People have been further conditioned to think ‘conspiracy theory’ the moment someone mentions the historical role of the Rockefeller foundation and its peers. It’s very difficult to fix things when people won’t even look at the root cause.
If money were the cure for stupid people then Baltimore would be putting out Ensteins. They aren’t. If you cut the money to the Baltimore schools they would still be producing stupid people. The problem is the culture in Baltimore, and other large Democratic cities, that defeats learning by creating a society that believes it is worthless. Why work hard and get an education if you can sustain yourself living off the dole? Why learn if you can join a gang and have your self-centered beliefs reinforced? Why learn if you can have people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson justify your bad behavior and continue making excuses by blaming others for your life in poverty and crime?
I doubt there is a cure for the problem that Baltimore has. The best solution is to keep it from spreading by keeping the progressives out of the educational system. To find what educational system works best look back in history to find what worked. Imitate that. Imitate the Asian community and how they value education.
Instead we pay educators a lot of money to dumb down our children because no one can be better than the person sitting next to them. Progressive ideas are going to defeat this country.
Read Harrison Bergeron
The true goal has always been to produce stupid compliant people. To reduce most humans back to the level of serfs/slaves. The Blacks have been targeted as the disease carriers and then used to spread the ‘disease’ via bussing to other schools.
BREAKDOWN OF THE BLACK FAMILY, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
BlackChick gets to the heart of the problem: Where’s the Outrage over the Black Family Breakdown?
What the blacks are being fed by the MSM to counter this point about single parenthood being bad for kids.:
The 60s Didn’t Cause the “Breakdown” of the Black Family
Also SEE: My SWAG about Karl Marx
The unemployment rate for black teens in 1965 was 29%, today it’s 40%.
https://youtu.be/60rvDF1kpcQ
The media has to push Jesse Jackson and the rest of the tools because without them in front leading people into dependence the freedom oriented black leaders would gain support. Every group the ruling class pits against other groups has these false leaders. Every one of these false divisions. It has to be set up this way or the ruling class would have a very short life expectancy with what they are doing.
The real divisions are the ruling class, those that serve the ruling class, and everyone else. That’s it. It knows no color. Black politicians serve the ruling class.
Why would they want to take personal responsibility when they can have multiple children with multiple fathers and get welfare and WIC and food stamps and housing and Obama phones. There is no incentive to do the right thing.
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/205/9/f/Beavers_of_Yore_by_Conservatoons.jpg
A baseball game with no crowd, no audience, no one in the bleachers.
Absolutely pathetic.
What a presidential opportunity to lead from the front instead of lead from behind.
How about it Prez, be there, throw out the first pitch and state
lets have a new beginning in Baltimore!!
Nobody wants to see that again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MH_UEpVjQ
True. Incompetence is only entertaining the first time. Sometimes not even then, like a first term.
Now, this 13-year old girl …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvBXRrIJfR8
How about an actress?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvzRVmkjlhc
Or a preschooler?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ix-yOc02k
The reason one party Dem ruled cities and blue states stagnate and fail is the same reason the Soviet bloc collapsed. They don’t allow competing ideas or other perspectives, and run themselves like cronyist monopolies, then collapse.
once heard a guy from one of the war colleges describe 3 classes in America
the lower third are incapable of military service
the middle is capable and willing
the top is unwilling
the bottom and the top have representation in government
the middle is not represented and is stuck paying the freight and doing the work
that well is running dry
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417601/riot-plagued-baltimore-catastrophe-entirely-democratic-partys-own-making-kevin-d
Here is Kevin Williamson on the root causes of the Baltimore riots. it’s a brilliant piece.
I saw a few apologists using this quote from MLK.
“You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being. I am sure that each of you would want to go beyond the superficial social analyst who looks merely at effects, and does not grapple with underlying causes. I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.”
For riots in a city that is 2/3 black and has had unchecked political rule by black voters’ preferred Democrat politicians over the city government for 48 years.
You forgot to mention a black mayor…
http://www.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large_square__300_x_300_/public/StephanieRawlings-BlakeYellow20140708.jpg?itok=oiH68v3b
a black police commissioner…
https://r1wolbbaltimore.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/pc20batts20official20photo.jpg?w=300&h=289
and a black president…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/President_Barack_Obama.jpg
A black president ?
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/171/3/6/911_Liberal_Style_by_Conservatoons.jpg
http://cdn.washingtonexaminer.biz/cache/r620-b2b329257415f1314bd8b555a7cfe071.jpg
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/114/3/5/The_Power_of_Stupid_Revealed_by_Conservatoons.jpg
$22,000 billion dollars since the 1960’s, and for what? And we’re told we need to spend more. For what. Add in unfettered immigration, both legal and illegal, and frankly the nation is doomed. Nearly all of the new jobs created the past decade went to immigrants, as the war on the Citizen continues.
And no fans allowed at Camden Yard for today’s baseball game. Truly, the inmates are running the asylum.
We all know why that city (as a Browns fan, I refuse to name that team-thieving hell hole) is burning, but we’re just not supposed to talk about it. Everything mentioned above is true, but the problem runs deeper. It’s just a basic fact of humanity. Black people and white people aren’t the same. I’m not saying either is better or worse, just different. And we have different beliefs about how things should be run. Sure, there are plenty of black people who fit in just fine with American culture. But the fact is, we have a fundamentally European culture. The percentage of blacks who don’t fit in will always be higher than the percentage of whites who don’t. It’s not either group’s fault. It’s the inescapable consequence of expecting people to live in a society that’s different than the one they’d create for themselves.
I don’t have a solution. But a problem this big can’t be solved until it can be discussed openly.
I don’t have a solution. But a problem this big can’t be solved until it can be discussed openly.
I have been saying this for years. Thankyou for being honest, and for pointing out that we have a problem that needs honest assessment, and not PC pandering. Everyone is always dancing around the issue for fear of being called a racist. It is a cultural issue.
If people only knew what Lincoln said and thought, there would be riots at his memorial, and Dr King would never have given his famous speech there. It is truly a “whitewashing” of history and truth.
Yet home-schooled black children do as well as home-schooled white children. I don’t think there really is anything innately different (other than pigmentation and appearances) between black and white. In other words, the innate differences between blacks and whites are only skin-deep. What is different though, is the culture.
It suits some to have things so. I suspect anyone who would be too effective in helping to change that culture might be cut-short, as this would be a threat to those who want things as they are. I am becoming suspicious that perhaps this is why MLK was taken out. Individual blacks here or there may learn of how they have been used, but most remain ignorant.
Unfortunately blaming others is part of our nature. It started with Adam and Eve. Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. Nothing in Baltimore will improve until and unless that victim mentality and chip-on-the-shoulder is changed.
OT, but can anyone else imagine not losing your job if you did this while wearing the company logo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giv8wy-9lEI
‘I’m a mailman, I was delivering the mail,’ he said wryly. ‘I don’t think that the government is going to shoot a 61-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle who is not threatening anyone.’
Hughes is on leave from his job and is under house arrest in Ruskin, Florida.
What are they afraid of? Hughes going postal? Gubmint jobs are awesome!
The rest of the story:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/ruskin-mailman-tries-flying-to-capitol-in-gyrocopter-to-deliver-campaign/2225584
He was delivering letters of protest (with stamps) to each Congress critters about the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.
Sure beats burning down a city as a form of civil disobedience!
What I do know, is that I would have been fired before the copter hit the ground.
“My flight is not a secret,” the post says. “Before I took off, I sent an Email to [email protected]. The letter is intended to persuade the guardians of the Capitol that I am not a threat and that shooting me down will be a bigger headache than letting me deliver these letters to Congress.”
Only a Gubmint employee would keep their job this long.
He is in his 60s his son recently committed suicide so I do not think he gives a hoot if he is fired. (If he is black he will not be fired.)
That has nothing to do with the fact he has not been fired.
I used to be a member of Common Cause for years until I got in a HUGE dispute with them over goals and means. They did nothing but FUNDRAISE and support the status quo people. Ergo: they did nothing. A useless organization indeed.
What we are looking at is the result of a deliberate plan that has been on going for more than a century. The school system, the welfare system, the eugenics, the politics, the strip mining of the productive sector of the economy, the corporatist regulation, the growing police state, the media, the government ‘science’, and much more.
Those behind these manipulations pick certain races to go first but this is for all of us who aren’t one of them or serving them.
+1
“Where are the black fathers in Baltimore? They don‘t exist. I saw black mothers in the streets. I saw black male teens rioting in the streets. But no black fathers trying to keep their kids off the streets and away from violence. The real issue is that the welfare state has destroyed the black family. The protestors should be carrying signs that say “Black Fathers Matter.
“Where is the black mayor of Baltimore? She clearly ordered police to stand down, make no arrests, stop no crimes while her city was being destroyed, while the businesses she is sworn to protect were being looted and burned. She clearly said days before the riots went ballistic that she wanted to create a “space for those who want to destroy.” Then she blamed the media for merely repeating her words verbatim.
“What’s the excuse of the day? The excuse in the past was blacks felt powerless with white politicians and white police in charge. Well Baltimore is under 100 percent black and Democrat control. You mean blacks feel powerless with a black mayor, black city council, black police chief and minority-majority police force (meaning the police are made up of a majority of people of color). When do the excuses end? When do you stop blaming others?
“It’s time to take personal responsibility. Slavery was a long, long, long time ago. My Jewish relatives were enslaved by Hitler and the Nazis much more recently than your ancestors were enslaved by the South. It’s time to move on.
It’s time to fight for jobs, not welfare. It’s time to look within yourselves. It’s time to stop blaming others. It’s time to blame black fathers. It’s time to blame black leaders. It’s time to blame a black president. It’s time to ask what the Democratic Party has ever done for you except ensure you’re helpless, hopeless and dependent on government to survive. It’s time to blame the war on poverty.
It’s time for black Americans to blame black Americans.”
http://personalliberty.com/its-time-for-black-americans-to-blame-black-americans/