A sad, yet sobering dose of Fred...

[No Swansong]

I identify this and name it what it is: racism. The article starts out racist and it ends racist. It goes nowhere and sheds no light on anything besides the prejudices of its author.

It unfairly singles out those doing evil and ignores those doing good: like those who cooked for others and rescued them with makeshift boats; like the 6-year-old boy who took charge and care of 2 toddlers and a baby when they got separated from their relatives. Or all the black people who are working on the relief efforts, opening up churches to care for the displaced, etc.

If you want to say you see sin, folks, we are all sinners. Skin color does not make anyone better or worse. In fact, studies have been done to show that black people and white people in America actually have the SAME rate of honesty, i.e. the same percentage of black as white will turn in a "lost" wallet found on the street.

If you duplicate the same or similar conditions (underclass in disaster condition and under stressors) in a country of white people, the outcome is the same. Look at Russia, or our own history--the draft riots of the civil war spring to mind.

To begin with I do not agree with some of the conclusions and generalities of the writer of the piece. I especially disagree with the conclusion that you originally quoted.

What I do agree with is much of his analysis of the past 50 or so years concerning the social engineering devices that have been tried and failed. (affirmative action etc.) I agree that many of these attempts were probably by well meaning advocates of racial equality, but I have long believed, and continue to assert, that public policy based upon race (such as affirmative action) and not socio-economic reality will fail. It is poverty, (which is pretty much encouraged by the current welfare system) and lack of educational opportunity that we must address and not emotions.

Even if he is a racist (in the pure sense of the word most of us are, simply because most of us behave differently around members of different races, usually subconsciously) Racists can be right about things at times. His analysis of the welfare system, forced desegregation, etc. is pretty accurate.
While I certainly don't want to be associated with those I perceive as racist, I cannot disagree with some of his points.

On a side note; I read a poster who quoted a study which purports that blacks are no more likely to be dishonest than whites. (remember the wallet example) While I agree that this is probably true, the study that I believe the poster was referencing (unfortunately I cannot recall its title) was found to be seriously flawed in its methodology and has been discredited. (something about the fact that the wallet that was used was placed on the street in poorer white neighborhoods, but not in poorer black neighborhoods, instead it was placed in a more middle class black neighborhood, thus not an accurate comparison.) There have been other studies completed which still result in the same conclusion, that blacks are no more honest or dishonest, but this particular one will receive a lot of fire if used academically.

 

[Autumnleaf]

Some Whites and many Blacks and Native Americans have been on the public dole for years and most are worse off for it. Giving people just enough to survive, while cutting them off if they get married, is basically causing people to choose to live in slavery to idleness, sloth, and indolence. Hence, the high incidence of drug abuse, kids having kids, and general waywardness of the people affected. Generationally it becomes a cycle of hopelessness and that is where Satan and his pals can do their worst.