A favorite strategy of the Left is the blame strategy. It
contains these three steps:
1.
The ruling elite and their system to control
wealth are corrupt and oppressive.
2.
These have caused tremendous suffering for their
own benefit.
3.
They must be removed at any cost.
This has also become the strategy of the universities and
the media. Divide and conquer. Divide the world into the good and the bad, the oppressed
and the oppressors, which must be removed. However, black conservative and
economist, Thomas Sowell, points to the fact that so many left-leaning interventions
have actually damaged the “oppressed”:
·
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.
This should raise the question, “Who really cares, who is
truly our friends, and who is just using us are a pawn to support their
political agenda?”
According to Sowell:
·
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.
·
In later years, as the minimum wage was
repeatedly raised to keep up with inflation, black teenage unemployment from
1971 through 1994 was never less than 3 times what it was in 1948, and ranged
as high as more than 5 times the 1948 level. It also became far higher than the
unemployment rate of whites the same age.
Ironically, the Left continues to unfold their charges of “systemic
racism” and the alleged undercover attempts to maintain “white privilege,”
creating hatred, distrust, and polarization However, the Left’s attempts to
control the legal and economic systems might have done more to un-privilege the
black community than anything else:
Sowell charges:
·
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.
Our culture of blame and shame refuses to compare the status
of blacks before and after the institution of their liberal policies. However,
Sowell wants us to see the larger picture:
·
In my own life, I was very fortunate when I left
home in 1948, at age 17 — a high school dropout with no skills or experience.
At that time, the unemployment rate of black 16- and 17-year-old males was 9.4
percent. For white males the same ages, it was 10.2 percent. http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell091316.php3#4KH2HlYyLYYSVZxU.99
Other black conservatives, including Frederick Douglass,
have called upon white society to leave them alone:
·
“Everybody has asked the question. . .’What
shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do
nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do
nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own
strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and
disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the
tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let
them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also.
All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!”
Why did Douglass call upon the prevailing society to “Let
him alone?” Today, it is easy to see why. The various entitlement programs have
served to disempower the blacks and to destroy their families and their traditional
values, banishing them to oblivion in favor of State aid.
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