This was sent to me by a friend who happens to be black. The fact that my first thought was to qualify this email by stating that it was sent to me by a black friend shows how pervasive PC has become. We all fear being branded as racists. Yet, to truly solve the problems of black Americans, we must face the truth.
For years radio talk show host Larry Elder in Los Angeles has talked about the destruction of the black family unit by the welfare state. In return for his honest attempt to solve the serious problems of black households, he is branded an Uncle Tom by the same people he is trying to help.
Johnson’s Great Society introduced the welfare state. The “rules” for the “free money” giveaway destroyed the black family unit. Without a father as a male role model, young black men were lured into the “gangsta” lifestyle of crime and violence. A conspiracy theorist would call it the “kill them with kindness” strategy, or counterfeit compassion. The real solution is not to fix the welfare state but to get rid of it, to get government out of the lives of its citizens. If humans were incapable of making it on their own, we would have gone extinct long ago.
In the end my solution for all of America’s ills is Capitalism. Ayn Rand called it the “Unknown Ideal” because very few Americans understand what it is. Capitalism is a free society of limited and minimal government. The only restriction on any individual citizen’s actions is that he cannot violate the rights of other citizens. A free society is one in which each individual enjoys all of his inalienable rights.
In contrast to a free society, we are regulated to death in our current mixed economy which is an unstable mixture of Capitalism and Statism (Collectivism). This inherent instability is pushing us down the road to serfdom, to Obama’s mixture of Socialism and Fascism. One must be stricken with a self-inflicted blindness to not see this, but most Americans are oblivious. When they finally wake up, it may be too late. Once enslaved, it will take an enlightened and heroic effort to win back their freedom. Unfortunately, I doubt that they will be up to it. A look at human history will reveal that freedom is the rare exception, not the rule. Most Americans will not appreciate what they have until it is lost.
Very astute analogy from Mr. Juan Williams…
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In case you are unfamiliar with Juan Williams, he used to be on NPR, the liberal radio network and they fired him over a comment he made. He is now on Fox News Network as the balanced side of liberal opinions. There is a great deal of truth in this email. Mr. Williams deserves credit for even mentioning it. Blacks, Guns & Crime Juan Williams, a black commentator, wrote an interesting article recently entitled “Race and the Gun Debate.” (Wall St. Journ, Mar 27, 2013) Among the statistics he cites are that 54% of all murders involve black victims, virtually all of whom were killed by black murderers, and yet blacks comprise only 13% of the population. These are familiar numbers, but, as Williams points out, although more than half the “gun problem” can be laid at the feet of blacks, the gun debate never seems to mention this. If it were mentioned, the obvious thought that might occur is maybe it’s blacks that need to be regulated and not guns. Three years ago I wrote the following in the prologue to my bookThey Came For Our Guns, They came For Our Freedom: “The single most important factor that has caused the political left to demand an end to private firearms ownership is that the underclass has, over the last fifty years, expanded exponentially, bringing with it an exponential increase in crime. Many of these criminals come from the single-parent families encouraged by the welfare system, a dysfunctional government give-away favored by the far left. The absence of fathers has led large numbers of children to seek gangs as a substitute for parenting not available at home. Not content with having created an entire class of welfare-bred criminals, the political left now seeks to protect this underclass by rendering ordinary citizens defenseless against crime perpetrated by these criminals.” In sum, both blacks and whites are part of this criminal underclass, but, as Juan Williams points out, blacks, a 13% minority, are doing 54% of the killing and dying. That needs to be said. Why is this happening? According to Juan Williams, the out of wedlock birth rate for blacks is now 72%. This leads to more than 70% of black mothers being on welfare raising more than 70% of black children without fathers. That’s part of the problem. Another part, Williams says, is: “a dysfunctional gangster-rap culture that glorifies promiscuity, drug dealers and the power of the gun.” So now we have black culture of violence financed by the welfare system producing what are – by any measure – distorted values. One might think this needs to be addressed. Not so. The President of the United States recently invited the gangster rapper Jay-Z to his inauguration. Jay-Z is the black poster boy for the value system that Juan Williams says is destroying the black community. Inviting him to the presidential inauguration is, by implication, an endorsement of the mindlessness characteristic of Jay-Z and his supporters. But Obama is not a moralist. He is a politician who panders himself to the black vote and avoids criticizing the criminal culture that has enslaved his people. Obama made no move toward gun control until a white madman killed young children at Sandy Hook . In Obama’s mind, that single act instantly transformed the “gun problem” into a white (not black) problem. It is about white misconduct, not about blacks, black culture or black behavior. Guess what. It’s still about blacks. They are victims and killers in disproportionate numbers. An occasional white maniac does not erase that. People who want to reduce homicide by gun need to focus on curbing a black culture that has caused the problem in the first place. Banning guns to cure black murderousness, crime and cultural deficiencies is like banning popsicles to deal with an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
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