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Editor: The Democrats own the plantation and blacks are kept in bondage with entitlements and ignorance.
One definition given for insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results; it might also be a definition of
stupidity. Let's look at some cities where large percentages of black
Americans live under poor conditions.
Experiencing a violent crime rate of 2,137 per 100,000 of the
population, Detroit is the nation's most dangerous city. Rounding out
Forbes magazine's 2012 list of the 10 most dangerous cities are St
Louis; Oakland, Calif.; Memphis, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Atlanta;
Baltimore; Stockton, Calif.; Cleveland; and Buffalo, N.Y. The most
common characteristic of these predominantly black cities is that for
decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal
administrations. Some cities -- such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark, N.J.,
and Philadelphia -- haven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a
half-century. What's more is that in most of these cities, blacks have
been mayors, chiefs of police, school superintendents and principals and
have dominated city councils.
You might ask, "What's the point, Williams?" Let's be clear about it.
I'm not stating that there's a causal relationship between crime,
poverty and squalor on the one hand and, on the other, Democratic and
black political control over a city. Nor am I saying that blacks ought
to vote Republican. What I am saying is that if one is strategizing on
how to improve the lives of the poorest black people, he wants to leave
off his to-do list election of Democrats and black politicians. Also to
be left off the to-do list is a civil rights agenda. Racial
discrimination has little to do with major problems confronting black
people.
Today 72 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock. Being born and
finding out that your mother is 17 years old, that your grandmother is
35 and that you don't know who or where your father is is not a good
start on life. In fact, it's a near guarantee for school dropout,
poverty and crime, but such a start in life has nothing to do with
racial discrimination.
Law-abiding poor black people suffer the nation's highest rates of
criminal victimization from assaults and homicide. More than 50 percent
of homicide victims are black. Would anyone claim that this
victimization is caused by racist groups preying on the black community?
In addition to victimization, the level of lawlessness in many black
communities has the full effect of a law banning economic growth. That's
because the thugs are equal-opportunity thugs who will rip off a
black-owned business just as they'd rip off a white-owned business.
Black education is a disaster, but who runs the violent, disruptive
big-city schools, where education is all but impossible? For the most
part, it's not white people. Go to a city such as Detroit and you'll
find that blacks have been superintendents, principals and most of the
teachers for years. Most black high-school students, in Detroit and
other cities, can't read, write and compute as well as sixth-, seventh-
and eighth-grade white students, but is it because of racism? What the
elite teach is not only futile but counterproductive. For example,
speaking standard English in an English-speaking country is critical for
self-improvement. But that's not the lesson from the nation's
multiculturalists, who call for the celebration of native languages and
dialects. Sloppy-minded academics and assorted hustlers have taught that
poor English, gangsta rap, men wearing pigtails and thug behavior
should not be criticized but become a part of the celebration of
diversity.
Black people could benefit from an honest examination of the bill of
goods they've been sold. Such an examination would not come from black
politicians, civil rights leaders or the black and white liberal elite.
Those people have benefited politically and financially from keeping
black Americans in a constant state of grievance based on alleged racial
discrimination. The long-term solution for the problems that many black
Americans face begins with an absolute rejection of the self-serving
agenda of hustlers and poverty pimps.
Dr.
Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M.
Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of 'Race and
Economics: How Much Can Be
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