America's Blacks

There's a hashtag on Twiiter - #BlackLivesMatter  I have been thinking about this a lot recently.  My question is why?  Why do Black Lives matter?  There is actually a better hashtag # AllLivesMatter and that is one I can support.

I know that you're supposed to call them African-Americans but given Rachel Dolezal's activities, let's lose the supposed heritage.  While we are at it, maybe lose the perpetual slave mentality, too?

I live, some of the time, in Britain.  We don't really have the 'slave thing' hanging over us but are regularly assailed by colonial guilt.  Funny thing is that this mostly comes from other whites!

Anyway, back to America and its blacks (and, by the way, in South Africa Blacks are proud to be called Blacks and would hate to be called, coloureds!)

I just don't understand the majority of America's blacks.

Here is why.

America's blacks overwhelmingly support the Democrat Party and have done so, election after election.

• This is the same party that opposed the emancipation of black slaves.  
• The same party that has counted many leading KKK members (Senator Robert  Byrd, for example) among its members.  
• The same party that very aggressively supports abortion - a practice that disproportionately kills the babies of America's blacks.  
• The same party that has kept America's blacks in poverty for years. 
• The same party that now puts Muslims - long term en-slavers of blacks, even unto thus very day - ahead of the descendants of America's black slaves.
• The same party that now courts the Latino vote - maybe because Latinos are breeding better than Blacks? (Or at least, aborting less than Blacks)

Slavery, in America, ended more than 150 years ago.  Yes, I know that this didn't automatically free former slaves to immediately prosper and 'live the American dream' but the shackles (literally, in some cases), were removed.  Subsequent waves of Irish, Italian, German and other immigrants came to America and prospered - and not just in the 19th century - look at the Vietnamese and Koreans.  These immigrants were crammed into their own ghettos and then they worked and saved and moved-up the social ladders.  America's Blacks, stayed put.  Why?  Why didn't they use their political muscle to demand better conditions?  Why did they have to wait a 100 years for better civil rights?

Maybe slavery is the key?  Maybe once a slave, a slave for all eternity?  Maybe it's something that gets into the head and gets passed on to succeeding generations?  I don't believe that but struggle to understand why Blacks continue to predominantly be found in the so called 'underclass'.

My advice to America's Blacks?  Break the mould!  Don't vote Democrat - don't be taken for granted!

• Lose the 'victim' mentality - slavery was a long time ago, get over it!  Remember that the first people that enslaved your ancestors, were Black!  They sold your ancestors Arab traders who sold them on to white slave traders.  There was 'white' demand but it was supplied by Blacks (with fellow Blacks).

• Stop supporting your young men - who idolize misogynistic and hate-filled rappers, who take no responsibility for the children that they father, who mimic prison homosexuals in their dress code and who destroy their and your neighborhoods.  Don't take to the streets when one of them resists arrest and dies as a result of such resistance - Does anyone seriously believe that Baltimore or Ferguson is now a better place to live?  

• Do follow the example of Blacks in Charleston.  Faced with the results of a hate-filled mad man, these people sought solace and understanding, in their faith, which teaches love and forgiveness not looting and burning.   

• Look at America's inner cities - Detroit, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore - apart from large black populations, what do they have in common?  Years and years of mis-rule by Democrats - Now it is often Democrat Blacks that are 'managing' these cities but all that has changed is the colour of the person taking you for granted.

• Support your local law enforcement agencies - just consider what would happen if they weren't around!  Do you really want the gangs policing your neighborhood.

• Stop supporting the haters like Al Sharpton - indeed demand he pay his taxes, so that he can help Blacks! - haters like Rachel Dolezal - she doesn't even like her own skin!  You know who these people are.

• Start showing more support for inspirational Blacks like Dr Ben Carson and Mia Love and Sheriff Clarke.  There are many Black role models out there - not enough to turn the tide, yet.  Enough though to show that Blacks can get out of the ghetto/slave mindframe.

• Stop murdering your babies.

• Finally, remember #AllLivesMatter