For over 150 years now there has been going on here
in the United States the conducting of a rather interesting little
experiment. And those involved in this
experiment are blacks and working-class whites.
And the hypothesis being tested is as follows: Can a people who have been taken from the
jungles of Africa and then forced into slavery ever able to be fully integrated
as citizens in a nation with a majority white population? The whites are descendants of Europeans who
created for themselves a prosperous, innovative and resourceful civilization. Meanwhile, these former slaves had been
tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual
achievements. Acting on a policy that
was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people
into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with varying degrees of
racial discord pretty much ever since.
Decade after decade the problems persisted but those
behind the experiment refused to give up. They insisted that if they could just find the
right formula the experiment would eventually succeed, and therefore they concocted
program after program in an effort to get their desired result. They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed
civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty,
ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and even tried midnight
basketball. Their new laws intruded into
people’s lives in ways that would have otherwise been unthinkable. They called
in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom
of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses
and sent them to black schools and vice versa.
Attempts were made through the spending of vast amounts of taxpayer
money, all manner of special programs, the relaxing of requirement, and, of
course, endless handwringing to close the “achievement gap.”
And in an effort to keep any and all white backlash
in check, to the greatest extent possible, they began ‘punishing’ public and
even private statements on race. They
hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate
Diversity!” and “Say No to Racism.”
Nothing was deemed to be off limits if it might salvage the experiment. Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called
the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock
down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black
Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the
experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of
people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what’s been missing.
However, through the years, too many blacks have
continued to demonstrate a complete inability to function and prosper at any
meaningful level in a culture unsuited to them.
Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the
vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and
violence. And it is never that you will see blacks taking any level of responsibility
for their failures. Instead, they lash
out in anger and resentment, always blaming others for their misfortune. Across the generations and across the
country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati,
Baltimore and Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away.
The white elite insist upon telling us that this does not mean the experiment
has failed, it only proves that we have to try harder. We just need to spend even more money, waste
even more time, possess more understanding, create even more programs, ensure
there are more opportunities, more, more, more.
But no matter how much more money is ever spent, no
matter how many new programs are dreamt up, no matter how many more laws are
forced down the throats of the American people, no matter how many black
geniuses are portrayed on television, and, apparently, no matter who is our president,
nothing ever seems to change except for the worse. Some argue it’s a problem of “culture,” as if
culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame “white privilege.” But I think it’s obvious that things began to
go south in 1965, when LBJ’s made the promise that he’d have blacks in this
country voting Democrat for the next 200 years.
Because it was then that the slow painful death of the black family in
America began which has played a very big part in why it is that black “youths”
are committing half the country’s violent crime. So before things will improve for blacks in
any meaningful way, it is they who must first genuinely want things to change.
So while I hate to be the one to break the news,
there is little doubt that this decades old experiment been pretty much been
nothing but an abject failure. Not
because of culture, or white privilege, or even racism. The fundamental problem
is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually
and temperamentally. These differences result in a certain amount of social
incompatibility. Our rulers don’t seem
to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They
don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are
simply exhausted with them. They’re no longer willing to tolerate the social
pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial
solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive
animosity. The elites explain everything
with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach
the boiling point.
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