Black "Culture": Speaking the truth is not very popular...

starting with an inadvertently hilarious article from the CBSMinnesota (WCCO.)

The reason I often focus in on the St. Paul/Minneapolis area is because I was born and raised in St. Paul.  It used to be a lovely place to raise children and thrive financially.  I moved to Houston, TX when I was 17, and briefly moved back to Minneapolis in my early thirties.  I lived in the "transitional" neighborhood of Loring Park where I often had to side-step the hookers when I left for work. I was also the victim of a brutal mugging by a black man just blocks from my apartment.

I left Minnesota the first time when LBJ was starting his "war on poverty."  Any black people I knew of before I moved were families with a mother and father raising kids the best they could.  By the time I returned, it was clear where the the future of the black family was headed. 

That being said, let's take a quick gander at the CBSMinnesota article that had me rolling my eyes:

Minneapolis Highlighting Stories Of Young Men Of Color

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The city of Minneapolis wants to highlight stories of young people doing great things in the community.

The Brothers and Fathers Institute held a conference to raise awareness meant to focus on the positive role young people can have in making their schools and communities safer.

Young men of color in Minneapolis are now part of the conversation geared at making sure they have what it takes to make a positive impact in the community.

Betsy Hodges signed on to President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, a program designed to help more young men of color stay on track.

“It was really clear to me from day one as mayor that our city depends on our young people of color doing well,” she said.

The gathering of Brothers and Fathers at the Humphrey Institute is proof the initiative is taking hold here in Minneapolis.

Isaiah Hudson works with the mayor to help prevent youth violence. The 18-year-old spends time with 3rd and 5th graders in the YMCA’s Beacon program.

“I had a mentor when I was younger,” Hudson said. “I’m taking my mentors’ spot and trying to help my mentees so I feel good. It makes me feel real good because I feel like I’m giving back.”

Hudson wants to erase the negative image some people have of guys who look like him.
“If you see a boy like me, with a baseball cap, baggy pants: ‘He’s probably a drug dealer or a gang banger or something like that,'” Hudson said. “That’s not always the case.”

He hopes the website and posting of the work done by young black men will help inspire others to help make the city a better place for everyone.

St. Paul is also involved with the initiative and has also launched a website where people are encouraged to post positive stories of young people in the community.

  Here's the real message of this article:

• If whitey would quit reporting stories of feral black youths attacking white people, looting, and destroying property, the young black people would pull up their pants and act in a way consistent with polite society. 
• It's okay to dress like a thug and all the rest of us are not supposed to use common sense in avoiding them.
• We're going to maintain a website telling the feral black youth how wonderful they are because if we build their self-esteem, they'll shun the thug culture.  No never mind that most of them are functionally illiterate, which is also somehow the fault of everyone except themselves.

The Twin Cities has a long history of not reporting black crime - or, at least, calling it what it is.  They're the masters of reporting on teens, youths, young people, and any other word they possibly come up with, to not have to say "black."

The above article was published on March 27th.

On April 7th, the Minneapolis StarTrib published this:

Minneapolis police beef up patrols after south Minneapolis violence
Authorities suspect the latest violence is gang-related.

In hopes of curbing escalating street violence in south Minneapolis, police say they have assigned additional officers to boost daily patrols in several neighborhoods.

Under the plan, officers — drawn from all five precincts, in addition to several of the department’s specialty units, including the Community Emergency Response Teams — will focus on several neighborhoods, such as Phillips and Powderhorn, which have seen most of the recent incidents, police officials said.

[...]The Phillips and Powderhorn neighborhoods, which stretch from Interstate 94 to E. 43rd Street, between Hiawatha Avenue and I-35W, have had more than 40 gunshot-related calls for service in the past two weeks, according to reports of shots fired and new technology that can detect gunfire. read the rest

Gang related?  They fail to mention that the gangs are black.  The same black people who ride the shiny new light rail downtown to the Nicollet Mall to cause mayhem like they did on St. Patrick's Day.  StarTrib referred to them as young people and teens.

 Colin Flaherty reports on violent crowds of blacks disrupting the St. Patrick's day celebration in downtown Cleveland and black city councilman, Zach Reed, breaks ranks and calls it what it is  - "a hate crime because black people are purposefully going downtown to beat up white folks."

In Muskegon, Michigan, a gaggle of black girls engage in a brawl and one of them runs over her rival which is caught on video (if you can stand to watch it.)

And a lady in Pennsylvania dared to tell some "teen" girls to be quiet during a movie and her reward was to get the snot beat out of her.

I could go on and on, but I have plans for today.

Anyone who dares tell the truth is immediately carpet-bombed with accusations of racism, being a hater, and a right-wing religious zealot. Don't fall for it. 

The truth is:

 The majority of blacks are doing the best they can.  How many of these "youths" are the product of fatherless homes and drug-addled mothers?  It should be clear to anyone watching any of these videos that we are not dealing with people who are even remotely qualified to live in society.

Any city or neighborhood that becomes predominantly black ends up in ruins, while white people are blamed because of our  "privilege." 

While they segregate themselves in ghettos of their own making, we are forced to fund their aberrant life styles. If you live in a large city that is promoting light rail, enabling them to invade your neighborhood, escape is no longer possible. The ghetto will come to you. 

Soon, you will be living next to Section 8 housing in order to make your neighborhood properly diverse.  Is that what it will take to wake you up?

Any white people who are pushing this agenda of blaming whitey for the plight of black people, I have a challenge for you.  How about tonight you take a stroll through any black neighborhood hand- in-hand with your sweetie.    

More:

Top 100  Black Mob Violence Videos

Ferguson's Neighbor, 98 Percent Black Pine Lawn, Offers a Glimpse into the Future for the Ever Darkening City...
  
Rush Limbaugh: Section 8 housing being forced in nice neighborhoods? 

Moonbattery:  Government Is Importing a New Breed of Unassimilable Blacks 

Clash Daily:  THE MOTHER FROM HELL: Mom Drives 6 Kids To A Fight Where One Gets Shot

 




And if I haven't given you enough to think about, listen to Sharyl Attkisson's talk about astroturfing.  Excellent!

The message is to question everything you read or hear.  Remember this?

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada 

OMGosh! Imagine if a white person said this...

heh



H/T  Moonbattery

Are black people and white people different?...

good question.

A couple of nights ago I was having trouble sleeping.  While wandering aimlessly around the internet, I happened upon an article, published in June of 2009, on the blog of Marty Nemko entitled "What it's Like to Teach Black Students." (link below)  It appears Mr. Nemko had taught for many years in predominantly black schools. As part of this article, intended to open an honest dialog, he posted an essay by a teacher who had also taught in predominantly black schools which painted a rather unflattering picture of black culture. 

Mr. Nemko was very deliberate in stating that his experience was not quite as bad as the essay portrayed, and struggled with whether he should even reprint it. 

[...]The essay does make me feel uncomfortable because, while it presents an eye-opening report from the trenches, it is just one person's report and a more extreme one than I would have issued when I taught in a school with many African-American students. Also, while the author made passing mention that not all Blacks behaved as he described, those comments felt, to me, too parenthetical. Of course, a good number of Black students are high-achieving and motivated.

But I decided to post this teacher's essay for the following reason. The much-needed women's movement was triggered not just by measured academic tomes but also by passionate statements that, though often excessively bashing of men, shone powerful light on women's plight. Similarly, I believe we need to hear passionate--even if frustrated and overly drawn--reports on this issue from front-line workers .

The comments number over 750, and so I had plenty to do while waiting for the sleep bug to bite.  I made it through about 100 comments, some of which I agreed with, and some I did not, but I found all of them very interesting.

What I found most interesting, was how quickly some people accused others of "racism" or "hate speech", just for expressing their opinion. It occurred to me that we have truly become a nation of people who swallow any and all opinions which might cause another to declare, "You're a racist." 

Of course, we know that only white people can be racist.  Unless, of course, you're a black person saying something is wrong in today's black culture as many well-educated blacks have done. In that case, you're just an "oreo" or an "Uncle Tom."

One other thing gave me pause and made me think back to my childhood, a time when blacks didn't seem to inhabit such a degraded culture as compared to today.  When I grew up in St. Paul, MN, the majority of blacks dressed, talked, and acted just like everyone else.  They came from intact families with strong mothers who demanded respect from their children.  Fast-forwarding to today, somewhere in the range of 70% of black babies are born to single women who, in many cases, have no idea of who the father is, and are often having multiple children with different men.  To be fair, at the rate we're going, whites will be catching up with that depressing figure very quickly.

Since the 60's, black people have been given advantages far exceeding anything other races have ever received.  Preferential treatment in schools, employment, and plenty of government funds to facilitate their ascent in society have been showered on them.  Despite all that, they are as a group, in far worse straits than they've ever been, with race-baiting pimps screaming about "whitey" holding them back.

 Was it a plan as Maafa 21 suggested to keep blacks on the proverbial plantation?  And why has the constant drum beat of racism been heard relentlessly for the past three years?  Was is it part of a Marxist plan to put a black man in the White House in order to gin up a bunch of racist rants?  There is hardly anything a white person can say anymore without being accused of racism.  Don't like Eric Holder?  You're a racist. Don't like Obama?  You're a racist. 

What a fine distraction the left has created.  Don't fall for it.


Hack Wilson said in his fine article linked below:

You see, here's my view in simplest of terms. And I would like to think this is the view of many on the conservative side of things. I believe that no specific races should be given special treatment in this country. I believe that skin color is irrelevant. I believe that forcing a race into submission through government dependency is the ultimate manifestation of racism in this country today.

I wouldn't expect a liberal to understand. But what the Democratic party has done to minorities is appalling to me. Under the guise of a helping hand, the Democrats have destroyed the black community in America. It is rule number one in the Democrat playbook, much in the same way the Democrat party favored slavery and opposed civil rights laws in the 60s. They are still oppressing minorities today through government dependency and never more so than now, under the Obama administration.

Read the essay:

What it's Like to Teach Black Students


More:

Conservatives on Fire:   The Black Culture of Poverty. Who’s at Fault? 

and

Hack Wilson's answer to being called a racist:  Response: An open letter to "Hack Wilson" and White America. 

Thomas Sowell shares his view of Critical Race Theory and Derrick Bell

1.   Maafa 21. Abortion of black babies...
2.   Maafa 21  parts 3 & 4
3.   Maafa 21  parts 4 & 5
4.   Maafa 21  parts 6 & 7 
5.   Maafa 21  parts 8 & 9 
6.  Maafa 21 parts 9 & 10