The progressive left never lets a good crisis go to waste. Even if they need to concoct a lie, they will do it. The concept of “white privilege” is one of the most creative schemes they have pulled out of their bag of tricks to divide the races and the country.
The claim of white privilege is meritless, because those who use it seek to hold one race responsible for the problems of all other races, is in itself a racist concept.
The Democratic party speaks of tearing down statues, but are silent about tearing down the educational, institutional and cultural barriers that continue to keep too many in Black America trapped in a cycle of poverty unable to care for themselves in the same way you are able to care for your family.
There is no question that African Americans have a much harder time succeeding in our society. But the primary reasons are not skin color. It is a lack of an education, breakdown of the black family, the welfare state, and black on black crime.
For blacks, out of wedlock births have gone from 25 % in 1965 ro73% in 2015. For whites, from less than 5% to over 25%. And for Hispanics, out of wedlock births have risen 53%. What happened to fathers? The answer is found in a basic law of economics. If you subsidize undesirable behavior you will get more undesirable behavior. The poverty rate has remained relativity unchanged over the years, but the relationship between poor men and women has changed —- dramatically. That is because our generous welfare system allows women, in effect, to marry the government. And this makes it all too easy for men to abandon their traditional moral and financial responsibilities. The welfare state creates disincentives that hurt the very people we are trying to help.
Then there is education. Many black 12th-graders deal with scientific problems at the level of whites in the sixth grade. They write and do math as well as white seventh-and eighth graders. All of this means that an employer hiring or a college admitting the typical black high school graduate is in effect hiring or admitting and eighth grader. Thus, one should not be surprised by the outcomes.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Jason Riley, blacks commit violent crimes 7 to 10 times the rate that whites do. There were almost 6,000 blacks killed by other blacks in 2015. Black crime is more prevalent in the country’s largest cities. In Chicago, blacks committed 76 % of all homicides despite composing 35% of the city’s population. In Los Angeles, blacks are 10% of the population but commit 42% of it is robberies and 34% of it is felonies. In New York, blacks committed 75% of all shootings, 70% of all robberies, and 66% of all violent crime despite only composing 23% of the population.
Instead of preaching a cultural revolution, the Democratic leadership continues to provide excuses for failure. The race hustlers blame white privilege, an unfair society, a terrible country. So, the message is, it is not your fault if you abandon your children, if you become a substance abuser, if you are a criminal. No, it is not your fault; it is society’s fault.
Democrats falsely claim that the Republican Party is the villain when it is the failed policies of the Democratic Party that have kept blacks down. Massive government welfare has decimated the black family. Opposition to school choice has kept them trapped in failing schools. Politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods defenseless against violent crime.
I admit as a white man I have privilege. But so, does every other American who was born in this country regardless of wealth, race, or gender. As an American, our privilege comes from the two greatest political documents ever written: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. These documents acknowledge every American the origins of our freedom and the liberty and our right to pursue happiness, and worship without interference from the government. Democrats don’t see this as privilege. They see it as an obstacle or as an unfairness, racism, bigotry, sexism, or homophobia. As an American my privilege and blessing was to be born in the United States. I don’t need any more than that given to me. The rest is choices.
Pray for our country.
William Salser,
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