Blacks Promised False Liberty

Excellent article by Ron Miller on how the Democratic Party lured Black voters away from their traditional alliance with the Republican Party.

From Regular Folks United:

This is a case study of what happens to a people who are willing to sacrifice true liberty for the false hope of a utopian equality of wealth that has never existed in human history and never will.

Modern day liberals will lay equal claim to liberty based on the concept of "freedom from want," a concept first articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 in his famous "Four Freedoms" speech. This was not a freedom espoused by the founding fathers and, in fact, it had more to do with the international socialist movements of the day that elevated state-enforced economic equality above individual liberty, and appealed to class envy over the principle that all men are created equal and have the right to possess whatever their labors and skills allow them to produce.

This philosophy is illustrated in modern liberalism's approach to people they've deemed as disenfranchised by American society, typically minorities and women. Ironically, the political party generally accepted as the standard-bearer for modern liberalism, the Democratic Party, has a long, ugly and bloody history of racism, while the Republican Party was founded to fight slavery and led the fight for equal justice under the law for more than a century.

The historical support of blacks for the Republican Party began to turn during the era of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the first of two major transfers of power in the 20th century from the people to the federal government, and was essentially lost by the time of Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society.

Policies built on preferential treatment and forced income redistribution due to real or perceived structural inequalities won over most black Americans, who feared that equal justice under the law was insufficient to correct centuries of disadvantage brought about by slavery, legalized discrimination and a more nebulous presumption of systemic racism.

The Republican Party that had championed the cause of liberty for blacks since 1854 was abandoned because of its belief that, with slavery and legalized discrimination defeated, blacks were now on a level playing field and could compete and advance on their own industry and merits.

The Democratic Party strongly discouraged that notion within the black community as a matter of rhetoric and policy, and continues to do so today. Anyone who attempts to argue for equality of opportunity over outcome is quickly branded as racist, the universal insult of modern liberalism.

They are particularly vicious to those of us in the black community who object to their condescension and false paternalism. We quickly learn they haven't forgotten the techniques of intimidation, demonization and isolation they perfected during their racist past, even encouraging other blacks to attack us using the same reprehensible tactics.

We are their most reliable voting bloc and the naked hypocrisy of using racist words and actions to condemn those of us who dare to challenge them is a small price to pay to keep us "uppity Negroes" (I hesitate to use the actual term that comes to mind) in line.

The iron grip the liberal elites have on the black consciousness in America has, in my opinion, contributed to many of the pathologies that plague our community today, especially the breakdown of the black family, ripped from the moorings of self-sufficiency, hard work, personal responsibility and accountability and an unyielding faith in God that sustained us during the hardest of times in years past.

Modern liberalism positioned the federal government as not only our protector but also our provider, replacing community institutions for which it is a wholly inadequate substitute.

As a result, we have exchanged the physical chains of slavery and the legal chains of Jim Crow laws for the less apparent but more insidious bondage of permanent dependence on a single political philosophy and their allegiance to government's power over the individual.

You are right, and most Blacks keep bringing up how segregation was so bad and Whirte devil this that, thank god they are not slaves bla bla...But they don't realize that Sh1tcago, and most of their neighborhoods are even worse, their morals are even lower, and the ones killing Blacks en masse in LA, NY, Michigan is not the Ku Klux Klan, it's the Bloods and Crips, etc. So they are actually worse than back before 1965.

Whether connected to the DNC or not, I hope to god out fate in America is not that of black Americans. The few characteristics I see creeping in currently are enough to worry me.

I may sound pessimistic, but I'm afraid that this is the fate that we're heading to, unless there's a big volte face in the way things are handled here on the island. A good reason that explains why the dominican community is the one that uses welfare/medicaid/medicare/section 8 the most even though it's not the poorest one coming to the US is because of the culture of living from the government over here in the homeland. The culture of "dame lo mio" and the free rider.

Then we are doomed. While there's a strong minority of us living in middle class NY/NJ/CT/PA over all we'll be resigned to be hoodlums and scum.

Obvioulsy you are too young to know what afroamericans went through in this country... they have every right to call the whites devils.. they certainly acted like devils with regards to blacks.. the proof is enormous.. now , its literally up to them to carve out their future going forward . if only succesful Blacks would give back to their community instead of tiptoeing away and shutting them out , their chances would improve.

As for the democrats haveing to 'lure' blacks to their party is totally 100 BS , blacks and hispanincs for that matter have traditionally been democrats.... amongst hispanics, only the cubans are mainly republicans... so please dont post everything you see out there......

Can anyone name another hispanic senator other than Mel Martinez in the Republican party???

Who ever listens to this black self loathing afroamerican needs to see a shrink !

In other words glim you are siding with the gold toothed thugs who are always playing the victim card

The hispanic case can be argued, but I'm sorry to tell you this, but the corsican one (Rizzo) is right on his assessment, Glim. The republican party was the party espousing the black cause since the beginning (1854), and it would be in the 1960's when they'd renounce this in order to attract the dixiecrats (southern WASP democrats) which were disgusted by the ideological shift of the democratic party, which they saw (and rightly so) as a betrayal to the "white race". Look for any information about the Jim Crow era, and you'll find that the majority of the lynchings of blacks nationwide were supported by the democrats, with the klansmen as their thugs (specially in Louisiana, where things were so bad that it's a miracle that a statewide civil war didn't erupt over there, like the bleeding Kansas before the Civil War).

And this is the line that has to be ultimately drawn. If this guy is "self loathing", what makes him so? Because he hates the majority of AfroAmerican culture? While I'm not saying Glimmer is a "liberal" (I don't know) this often a liberal problem. While many more conservative Americans try to make it some sort of "genetics" cause, Liberals aren't willing to admit it's CULTURAL and not "the white man's" fault all the time.

Black culture is highly bankrupt of morals and values. And not just people living "in da hood", but across the board. Parenting skills are underdeveloped and thus why IQ scores are low even for middle class blacks. And it's true that black poverty is overrepresented as half of the black population (more or less) is "middle class" (a vague term as this can mean lower middle class) but IQ scores remain.

It's funny that SSA immigrants do better in America than their AfroAmerican counterparts, have higher IQ's, and have a high education completion rate (higher than Asian Americans even). They could be seen as a true model minority. Of course this could be destroyed in one family after a generation or two if their children begin to adopt AA mannerisms.

Lautaro's right, even in high school I noticed in my books a almost perfect "switch" in party platforms.