THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 205, August 20, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
BLACK AMERICA'S GAINS & LOSSES
By Alan Caruba
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN BLACKS: BLACK ADVANCEMENT IN THE U.S.A. SINCE THE 1960S CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT -- ECONOMIC SUCCESS & ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE CLASS STATUS ON THE PART OF MANY
INDIVIDUAL BLACKS & THEIR FAMILIES -- FAILURE OF THE VAST BULK OF THE BLACK POPULATION TO BENEFIT FROM THE
SWEEPING CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN AMERICAN SOCIETY & ITS LAWS -- CONTINUING EXISTENCE OF BLACK
GHETTOS, BASED AS MUCH ON THE CHOICE OF BLACKS, AS ON EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES -- SOCIAL FAILURES RAMPANT
AMONG BLACKS -- THE DEMAGOGUERY & POOR LEADERSHIP OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY REINFORCING & EXACERBATING
PROPAGANDA CLAIMS OF BLACK VICTIMHOOD & THE TENDENCY OF MANY BLACKS TO REMAIN APART FROM & HOLD AN
ANIMUS FOR WHITES
FULL STORY:
You know that Barack Obama is in trouble when even the Congressional Black Caucus begins to criticize him.
Maxine Waters (Democrat - California) recently told a gathering that the CBC is “frustrated” with regard to unemployment,
a problem that has hit Blacks harder than Whites. The only thing holding the CBC back from being more vocal, said
Waters, was its fear they will lose the support of the black community.
It says something about Congress and politics in America that the only race-based caucus is the Black Caucus.
Like many Americans, I watched the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s unfold, with the feeling that, nearly a century after
the end of the Civil War, the movement was long overdue.
The movement had a leader of remarkable talent, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., plus others from the ministry and labor union
movement. It was a time of turmoil that ended with the assassination of Dr. King.
Others died too in the struggle but they have become relegated to being minor historic players. When the dust settled,
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The changes in American
life since then have been extraordinary. Afro-Americans were assured their voting rights, equal housing, and other
opportunities that had been routinely denied.
Whites accommodated themselves to the changes, having already accepted the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka, that "separate but equal" schools, a widespread practice in the southern and border
states, were unconstitutional.
While many blacks have achieved middle class status and risen to levels of real achievement, the vast bulk has not. These
comments acknowledge individual success stories, but address the larger black community.
As a general observation, Blacks in America have chosen to ignore the gains in legally protected civil rights equality.
By most indices, the black community has not changed. In U.S. cities, they remain ghettoized, as much from choice, as from
external circumstances. Instead of moving forward, integrating and assimilating into the larger white population, Blacks
have emotionally remained apart, nurturing a sense of being victims, holding onto an animus for Whites.
Social failures are so rampant among Blacks that it is appalling to contemplate how many are born into single-parent families,
often raised by a mother or grandmother because the men are absent. They drop out of school. Unskilled and often illiterate,
employment opportunities are limited. Blacks and crime have become synonymous to the point where they fill the nation’s
prisons far in excess of Whites and Hispanics. Drug use ravages black communities.
To say Whites are disappointed is an understatement. It is a source of resentment that is rarely expressed aloud to avoid
being deemed a racist or engaging in hate speech.
So, how does one explain the phenomenon of the first black President?
Observers attribute it to a large turnout of younger voters, born well after the 1960s, to union members, many of whom were
government workers, to 98% of the Afro-American community, and, of course, Democrats in general. Many white voters
who wanted to affirm their belief that equality was an American value pulled the lever for Obama.
Barack Obama has exacerbated white disappointment and it is likely that many Blacks, too, are experiencing buyer’s lament.
Among Whites, there’s a feeling that scores are being settled with incidents like Obama’s condemnation of a white Boston
police officer, the appointment of Eric Holder as the first black Attorney General, and of others like Van Jones as Obama's
“Green Jobs Czar.” Jones is a self-identified Communist and a radical environmentalist who resigned and is now safe in the
bosom of "progressive" organizations.
The latest affront to a predominantly white population is an executive order, issued on August 18, 2011, titled “Establishing
a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace.” In other words,
Whites need not apply.
When Whites became aware of Obama’s preacher, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, saying “God damn America,” they had to
actively ignore the fact that Obama had spent many years in his church, that Wright had married him and Michelle, and
baptized their children. Theirs was no casual relationship, nor were others from any earlier point in his life such as the
Communist Party member, Frank Marshall Davis, who advised young Barack that his white grandmother had a right to be
scared of Blacks because “She understands that black people have a reason to hate.”
It will be a long time before the majority white and Hispanic populations forget or forgive the legacy of Barack Obama.
Obama has wreaked economic havoc on America since taking office, and, this time, people — black, white, Asian, and
Hispanic — have taken notice.
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© Alan Caruba 2011
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Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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