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- Aug 23, 2019
The black community wasn't always the way it is today. Yes, there always was a "black underclass," but not only was it not as terribly behaved, but the rest of the community was openly embarrassed by it and black community leaders railed against it. Prior to the Great Society and the widespread adoption of certain ideas introduced by the Black Power movement (and promoted by dumb white leftists), the black community was doing pretty well -- a very low rate of out-of-wedlock births/broken families (actually lower than the white rate), a high employment rate, a truly impressive increase in mass literacy, and near universal religiosity. I'm not denying there may be biological factors that hinder their success, but I believe that cultural changes are largely to blame for shattering the black community and producing the results we see presently.
Perverse economic incentives (welfare) normalized unemployment and gave women housing and money for popping out kids without forming stable marital bonds. This led to mass fatherlessness, disappearance of the traditional work ethic, and a sense of entitlement to handouts. But perhaps even more damaging was the ideological shift that started at the same time and is the direct progenitor of the Critical Race Theory/antiracism movement of today. The black community was led by a bunch of retarded commies into embracing anti-intellectualism, entitlement, separatism, and a disdain for respectability. Suddenly every societal standard and norm was gleefully tossed out the window, and blacks were allowed and even encouraged to behave in anti-social and self-destructive ways. Valuing academics and working hard became "acting white," being articulate became a sign of inauthenticity, socializing outside the black community became traitorous, and anything but total obsequiousness by whites became "oppressive." This is why we see stuff like the push to eliminate standardized testing because of "racism" -- society has totally failed to hold blacks to any standard, and unfortunately they've been mostly happy to exploit this. I do agree with you that their outcomes will only improve if the black community addresses its issues internally, and that the chances of that happening anytime soon are quite low. I think the best thing whites can do for them is to stop coddling them and stop indulging the pleas for reparations, stop the endless lowering of standards, and stop the weird, masochistic self-flagellation. The best thing for them right now would be for the spigot of white guilt to immediately run dry.
