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MrRodgers -> RE: The African American Community (7/13/2012 10:16:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Yachtie
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ORIGINAL: Owner59
So......why do blacks suffer more,gain less and do worse than other Americans?
Perhaps because, beginning at least back in the 60s, and not with intent of the unintended consequences suffered, they were singled out to become such. The worst part being that the black community unwittingly requested it.
Now before anyone gets their panties in a wad, consider this. Being removed from the competitive playing field onto a special field created just for you, where the rules are different and the outcomes are adjusted as to meet desired criteria does no one any favors. It's akin to someone requesting, at the urging of their contemporaries, being placed on a pedestal, willingly ascending to it and finding out later that those to whom the request was made despise you for it. Eventually you begin to despise it yourself and eventually curse that those who allowed it to happen even did so in the first place.
What was created is a permanent underclass. The blame lies with those who asked for it and with those who enabled it.
Actually what you describe is a by-product of welfare reform. I think it was in 1974, Nixon 'reformed' welfare, renamed it AFDC and also codified (put in law) that if there was an able-bodied man living at the address...there would be no welfare check.
Yes, partisans, it is as simple at that. That removed dad from all poor families where he was unemployed...long enough. There goes the poor family structure.
Add to that, rampant discrimination in education, work and wages, so the state enlarges and seals the fate of a virtually permanent underclass.
And of course despite the wishes of many, no one was removed from any playing field, the playing field was re-tilted in favor of those who found it...all up hill for 250 years.
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