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Originally Posted by spoonitnow
First place to start? Education and after-school programs in poor, predominantly black areas. If they want to name their group "black lives matter," then they need to do some shit to show that black lives matter, and more money for education and after-school programs are the number one place to start because they're systems that are proven 100 percent to drop crime and increase the prospects in life for the people who come through them. BLM has a tremendous social media presence to the point that they can quickly coordinate big protests and all kinds of other crap that leads to cops to getting shot, so they could surely put together something to create enough pressure that they could get these programs going.
Here's where I mostly disagree. Black culture doesn't give a shit about education. The Booker T. Washington side was right (focus on education and entrepreneurship). It didn't lose so much as its successful adherents focused on their own lives instead, which handed the black culture wars to the professional victims.
You don't get people to treat you fairly by forcing social justice upon them. You get it by changing who you are and making it so that they benefit from treating you fairly. This is the difference between black culture and the many other subjugated cultures that have escaped their subjugation. Asians were treated every bit as badly as blacks, but they focused on education and entrepreneurship, and now they do better than whites and mistreatment of them is minuscule. The Irish were once considered below nigger status, but they embraced the whites' rule of law and within several decades became the epitome of whiteness. Jews were once thought of as nothing but thugs and scoundrels, but through the same methods they became a stronger demographic than the rest. I've mentioned the same regarding Mormons several times recently, so I won't repeat it.
A story I told a while back: a friend spent a good deal of time as a missionary in West Africa and has great memories of it. A couple years ago he planned to move to South Korea to teach English. I asked him why not teach English in Africa since he liked it so much. He said because African students respect all the wrong things. They glorify cheating and ridicule honesty. Getting good marks does not improve your social status among African children, but figuring out any way to get away with cheating does. Where White America imported British values of rule of law, integrity of character, and self-reliance, African slaves brought a whole different set of values with them to America. Some of those values are awesome and have done wonderful things for white culture (like freedom of expression).
Thomas Sowell often discusses how blacks were performing far better on many of the most important social and economic metrics back in the first half of the 20th century than they are today. That was when "the legacy of slavery" was relevant, yet blacks were succeeding rapidly. Fast forward to today, and the black family is devastated. All your slavery and all your racism in the world didn't hurt the black family, but guess what did: welfare.
The best thing we can do for blacks is stop doing shit for blacks. Police dangerous streets, stop welfare, localize education policy and funding, and -- most importantly -- reject the race-baiting hatred spewing from professional victims like BLM and the social justice media.
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