Anonym (Kosmopolit) skrev 2023-03-22 12:43:27 följande:
Jag har mycket svårt att tro att du är svart. Du gillar inte BLM?! Du gillar alltså inte organisation som vill stoppa mord på svarta? Du tycker också att svarta är mest våldsamma gruppen, trots den omfattande rasismen och mord på svarta i USA. Hur ska man göra då som svart tycker du? Lägga sig ner bara och dö? Du må vara svart, men du är inte en person att lita på.)
Loury made a big impact in the mid-eighties with his ideas about pathological flaws in African American culture; the absence of committed fathers, the high crime rates. That was the real enemy within the community, coined by Loury as ?the enemy within?. But this enemy was hardly addressed. All attention was focused on the enemy without: white racism in the US.
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?And I agree, of course it is: the culture of black lives in poor areas of America is the product of a history that goes all the way back to slavery. But what I am saying: all these external influences do not relieve you of the responsibility to take good care of your children, to take care of your own life. If we want change, we also have to look at ourselves.?
You argue that anti-racists with their demands actually empower white people whilst infantilizing black people. What do you mean by that?
?Black Lives Matter activists make an appeal to the white majority: acknowledge your privileges, apologize. In doing so, they make the white American the moral agents: they can decide to do the right thing. At the same time, poor black people are the product of history, they are helpless victims of their circumstances. I wish more autonomy for my community to seal their own destiny and not depend on white Americans for justice.?
glennloury.substack.com/p/if-the-black-community-wants-change
Many things that are supposed to help blacks actually have a track record of making things worse. Minimum wage laws have had a devastating effect in making black teenage unemployment several times higher than it once was.
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The relations between the police and the black community are another issue that has gotten a lot of attention, and produced counterproductive results. After all the rhetoric and all the efforts towards more tightly restraining the police, the net result has been that murder rates have soared in cities where that policy has been followed -- and most of the people killed have been black
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None of the most popular political panaceas for helping black communities has a track record of making things better, and some have made things much worse.
www.investors.com/politics/columnists/thomas-sowell-if-black-lives-matter-why-doesnt-their-education/Please Stop Helping Us
- Jason L. Riley
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