WASHINGTON — The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.After documenting the arguments made at a recent local "Reparations For American Slavery" conference - the framing seen in the title of this post will be seen as if I have a arm growing on my forehead.
The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the economic meltdown, which ravaged housing values and sent unemployment soaring. It offers the most direct government evidence yet of the disparity between predominantly younger minorities whose main asset is their home and older whites who are more likely to have 401(k) retirement accounts or other stock holdings.
In the advertisement of this conference (I will have my post from the "Reparations" conference and the "Anti-Libya Bombing" conference edited and posted shortly) I heard a radio host argue from the 'devil's advocate' position the question of: "They were free for 100 years in this country..............Why didn't they lift themselves up by their own boot straps?".
The prevailing Black cultural, social and economic theory cleaves to the notion that we are STILL "Damaged Goods" from American Chattel Slavery. If you want to "make friends and influence people" you had better have this as your core belief - even though the outward expression of this has changed recently. No longer is the "radical pose" a necessary uniform. The intent to produce differentiated results is all that matters.
Add this latest factoid from the US Census as yet another inference that we should make about the machine that has been erected for our community uplift and its efficacy.
I noted previously that the US Census had documented the exodus of Black people from "Mission Accomplished Cities" - where the plans as voiced in 1968 had been incontrovertibly accomplished. Indeed - as Bayard Ruskin vocalized - Black people have inserted "favorable progressives" into the seats of power - as Democrats. So Blacks can have control over our community. It was the tertiary BENEFIT that did not show up - the favorable outcomes - as shown in the vital statistics.
The irony of irony is that Black people, seeking to actually obtain their "Permanent Interests" have been seen moving out of these places that they had help to shape per their investments of "The Equal Black Ballot". They moved to more conservative suburbs and, perish the thought - back down South - as a means of obtaining the desired ends.
Of course, not willing to suffer any slight, we heard those who lead the way in the "Urban Strategy" promising to assist the "Black Flight Progressives" if they experience racism in the suburbs or down South. Never was there a transparent accounting of the forces that motivated them to depart - with the hopes of mitigating these forces from their blunt instrument attack upon our people in the future.
A New Way Of Thinking Is Necessary For The "Exercise Wheel" To Be Removed From Its Suspension And Make Absolute Gains As It Gains Traction On Solid Ground
Sadly, each year the National Urban League releases its "State Of Black America Report" - its principals print out 536 copies of the report and run to Washington DC to show the damning results to the federal legislature and executive branch. They would be wise to convert the report into a daily "Twitter feed" - where the recommendations are converted into 140 characters and repetitively streamed to the Black community - so that our daily repetitive tasks are made to support the goals of uplift.
The painful truth is that - so much of what the Black community has been ensnared into struggling for through the activist organizations purporting to support our uplift - is not for organic elevation of our interests. Instead that which Bayard Ruskin had vocalized in the scope of the Black community is now being down in coordination of the "Joint-Venture Partners" that have been fused into a common struggle.
I beg someone to tell me why it is wrong of me to REFUSE to take another step forward with a band that I believe has been CONTAMINATED in their agenda?
These results as seen by the US Census ARE NOT evidence that WHITE SUPREMACY IS GROWING and there is a need for a stronger force of "Redistributive Social Justice Policies" from Washington DC.
What I see in this report is what I witnessed first hand in my shocking visit to the streets of Philadelphia, where I grew up. The ability to use my vision from 1985, when I departed, applying it to the world of 2011 - afforded me the ability to do "time lapse photography" to make note of the gross difference between POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT gains had by the "Black Racial Services Machine" and its joint venture partners versus the absolute gains had by the Black community.
Point blank - the Chinese/Korean/Dominican/Indian/Ethiopian/Pakistani vendor in the main shopping districts in the neighborhoods have more evidence of progress than do the residents within the community. (I should note that Black American converts to traditional Islam - had a strong representation in the retail outlets that I saw when I did my walking tour as well).
With all of this longitudinal data streaming for our consideration - what are the chances that this "constructive feedback" will force a corrective turn of events within the controlling "Black Racial Services Machine" that claims our community as their province?
(You know the answer already) NONE!!!!
They will merely "double down" on their ideological fight, ensnaring their collection of "congregational members" along with them.
We might even hear the David Swerlick-type's - tacitly admitting defeat by asking the "Black Conservative" to provide the Black community with his own TONIC as a pre-condition for his discontinuance of his own Progressive-Marketing campaign. He will agree to allow the Black Rank & File to call in and cancel the automatic daily shipments of merchandise IF a better tonic is proven.
The main flaw in this logic is that it fails to acknowledge that in our present grievance - WE are today living within their SOLUTION SET!!!! No one takes the hit for misappropriating the Black Community investments, yet failing on the expected returns.
It is far more likely that the arguments that I heard from the "Reparations Conference" - where the modern day results prove that we are a "Damaged People". All the while the prognosticators of this viewpoint don't ask the question if THEY ARE DAMAGED GOODS and thus are talking as such.
How does one point to a BLACK CHILD BORN IN 2005 and use him as evidence of our SLAVE DAMAGE?
In my line of reasoning - this "new edition" is damaged by the "gestation" / "incubation" machine that enveloped him during his formative years. If one is seriously interested in a FIX - they'd begin to circle the wagons and make sure that no foul thoughts and messages are ALLOWED TO ENTER INTO HIS 5 SENSES that God gave him upon his body.
But wait - that would require "Organic Human Resource Development and Management Skills", forsaking all else that is not WORTHY of soaking through the semi-permeable barrier - Wouldn't it?
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