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| Obama's Legacy: Urban Pathologies on Display |
| 2015-05-12 |
| [PJ Media] President Obama is concerned with burnishing his legacy during this second term of his presidency. One major part of his legacy will be the way his "divider and conqueror" political tactics have highlighted the many pathologies plaguing black urban culture in this country, and have brought about a massive deterioration in "race relations." These pathologies did not originate with Obama. They have been half a century in the making, and may be traced to the mid-1960s when the legitimate civil rights movement was co-opted by the Left under the twin rubrics of the "War on Poverty" and the "Great Society." If indeed we have been engaged in a "war on poverty," it is long past time for us to acknowledge that poverty has been winning. The most recent manifestations of this to shock the nation are the riots in Baltimore, and the multifarious excuses for them made by Baltimore Mayor (and secretary of the Democratic National Committee) Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Yet, despite her posturings and those of other Democratic apologists, the one thing clear beyond doubt in the case of the Baltimore disturbances is that "white racism" has little or nothing to do with the problem. Begin with the fact that Rawlings-Blake is herself black, like her police chief and her city attorney. Also, over 50% of Baltimore's police force is non-white. And yet, as The Economist reports in its issue of May 2: Crime is rife. In 2013, 233 people were murdered in Baltimore, giving the city a higher murder rate than South Africa. Even as thousands of cops in riot gear enforced a curfew on April 28, police scanners reported carjackings, robberies, and one murder -- none of them connected to the protests. Gangs are common and visible. The Economist goes on to argue that this sorry state of affairs "has its roots in a previous Era," painting a picture of a surging black population in the 1950s and 1960s from further south, in search of industrial jobs which were then "sucked away" by "deindustrialization": |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 The University of Rantburg never disappoints. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-05-12 17:13 |
| #11 Progressivesare using the Fed to impose their model across entire populations, To name but a few: The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, fought by the newly created State of Israel on one side, and Palestinians and supportive Arab states on the other. The Bangladesh Liberation War against West Pakistan The Vietnam War, with the Vietcong in South Vietnam against the military forces of South Vietnam and the United States. In Afghanistan, against the occupying Soviet Army. In Ireland, the Irish War of Independence and The Troubles in Northern Ireland; also, the Provisional IRA insurgency against the United Kingdom, aimed at creating a socialist republic within a united Ireland, from 1969 until 1998. In Cambodia, against the occupying Vietnamese Army and People's Republic of Kampuchea. In Nicaragua, by Augusto Sandino's forces against the occupying U.S. Marines. In Chad, by FROLINAT against the Tombalbaye dictatorship In South Africa, against apartheid by Umkhonto we Sizwe and Poqo. In China, the Second Sino-Japanese War against Imperial Japanese subjugation of China. the Eritrean War of Independence against Ethiopia In Bougainville, by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army against Papua New Guinea In Canada during 1837 and in subsequent years English Canadian and French Canadian reformers of William Lyon Mackenzie and the patriotes of Louis Joseph Papineau fought the British Empire for the independence of Canada. See Rebellions of 1837 The Basmachi movement The Turkish War of Independence The Ogaden War of 1977 against Ethiopia |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-12 15:37 |
| #10 Fostering dependence has always been the basic method, but now we see now Progressives are using the Fed to impose their model across entire populations, regardless of economic prosperity by taking away the ability of law enforcement to police anybody. The end result, is that law abiding citizens will be at the mercy of dependent mobs who will be under the command and protection of, a hostile Fed gov bureaucracy |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-05-12 15:16 |
| #9 anon1, on financial and ideological grounds I loath the idea of conscription but I have to say the troublemakers in the world tend to be military age men/boys and such a plan might break the chain of failure. I'd send them to the peace corps where they can see what the third world is like and where things are generally so bad they couldn't do any damage. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-05-12 15:01 |
| #8 As seen recently in Kentucky and a few other places, if you choose to live off the grid in non-government approved lifestyle your children will be taken from your even if they are educated and healthy. We can't have people around who have been indoctrinated in the progressive dogma, dontchaknow. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-05-12 12:55 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: 2015-05-12 11:48 |
| #6 What we're seeing in Baltimore is the emergence of a possible new Blue Model: entire urban populations being used as agitprop by a entrenched SJW political class. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-05-12 11:34 |
| #5 Blanket Party!! |
| Posted by: GORT 2015-05-12 10:25 |
| #4 Any sergeant or CPO knows the answer to that question... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-05-12 08:36 |
| #3 anon1, serious question, what happens when they refuse to make their bed or turn out the light or break curfew? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-12 07:56 |
| #2 i think i have the solution to your problem. National servie. Conscription in other words, Israeli style. You take them age 16, out of school, and you send them far away from their families to the other side of the country where they know nobody. You separate the men and women for obvious reasons. You put them to volunteer work for a year. THey live in barracks. They pick up litter. They train physical exercise. They help old people in the old people's home. They do bit of military training (no guns). They are run like a military. They are given free medical, dental and optical care. They are subject to curfew, lights out by 9pm. Up at 6am. They are disciplined and taught to make their bed, iron their uniform (mandatory). After one year they are returned home. and the authorities should consciously mix up the races. no ghettos. They have made new friends outside their little gangs, developed a work ethic and some self respect. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-05-12 04:19 |
| #1 race riots under the first ever black president i would not call this a legacy to be proud of particularly considering he was not a foreign policy president but focused on domestic affairs. there has been way too much glorifying of black victim culture you'd think they were the only people ever to be slaves. eg: the movie, 12 years a slave why don't they make that same movie about the white europeans, the irish eg that were taken slaves by the Caliphate, and Thomas Jeffersen's war to free them? first ever foreign US war was to free slaves - our slaves taken by Muslims for the Caliphate There's a black US guy I know living in Australia (well only half black really he looks nothing like an african black) and he posts continually on facebook all about the race riots in the US and how racist everyone is he's been living in the least racist country in the world for him, Australia, and complains constantly about the US like he never left he's been living here 30 years. he has kids here (with a white woman). and you hear nothing from him except racist racist racist. The ultimate irony? He won't associate with Aborigines because he himself is racist and thinks he's a "better black" than them! |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-05-12 04:13 |