the whole black-white thing

an open letter to angry black people (and their white apologists):

as anybody who reads this blog knows, when it comes to this subject i am an angry white man. and tell you the truth, i don't know what offends me more--all the black people luxuriating in their victimhood, or all the white people falling all over themselves apologizing for things they had nothing to do with.

yeah, blacks are still on the low end of american society, but it's no longer whitey's fault, nor has it been for awhile--hell, these days we white folk are so cowed by political-correctness, all jesse jackson or al sharpton has to do is look at us cross-eyed and we reflexively drop to our knees and beg forgiveness for past sins while simultaneously pulling out our wallets--we're no challenge anymore.

no, here's the real problem: contemporary african-american culture is killing itself because it places no value on family stability, nor does it value education. and that's it--end of story, two factors, all you need to destroy a people.

and in response you can throw all the anecdotal evidence to the contrary you want at me, and i'll merely come back at you with the cold hard facts of (a) the billions of dollars that have been poured on the "problem" over the last 40 years, to little avail, (b) the skyrocketing black illegitimate birth-rate statistics over the same period, (c) black high-school drop-out numbers, and finally (d) black incarceration statistics which inevitably follow the unholy combination of (b) and (c). [are there other factors i haven't mentioned? of course, and that'll be fodder for future posts; however, this is the nut of the problem.]

at which point (if past experience is any indication, because i've gone through this so many times) you'll probably abandon rational argument and come back at me with something emotional like "well, what can you expect from us after all we've been through at your lily-white hands?"

and i'll come back with (a) it wasn't at my hands--i never owned a slave, and i'm done with apologizing for the sins of my forefathers--you ain't milking that cow anymore at my expense, and (b) the fact that pretty much everything legislative that can be done to level the playing field for african-americans has not only been done but, far as i'm concerned, done to death (institutionalized anti-white discrimination in the form of affirmative action, for instance).

and i'm tired of hearing about racism as being the source of all your problems--if big bad white america is so cruel to people who look and sound different, and if past trauma is a justification for present poor performance, how do you explain the fact that, within one generation of coming to this country with only the clothes on their backs and not even speaking the language, your typical asian families (even the ones from war-torn vietnam) own homes and businesses and their kids are excelling in college--how the hell could that possibly happen in evil racist america?

i'll tell you how: just like the jews (that american blacks love to demonize so much), the asians typically have a basic cultural ethos which has allowed them to not only survive but flourish no matter where they find themselves, and it goes something like this: (a) respect your elders, (b) establish a stable family before you start squeezing out kids, (c) education is the key to success in life, and (d) embrace and assimilate into the prevailing culture.

sadly, none of the foregoing elements play any part in mainstream african-american culture today, which, bottom line, is why you are where you are--and all the money and white guilt in the world isn't gonna change that fact; you're gonna have to change that within your own community if it's ever gonna happen.

if there's a bright side to this story, it's that more and more african-americans are getting it every day (even at the risk of being called oreos and uncle toms by the majority of their so-called peers who would still rather take the easy road of blaming whitey for their problems), and are joining the ranks of the middle-class in america at ever-increasing rates. i can only hope this trend will continue--that african-americans will quit whining, clean up their own backyard, quit living in the past and start living for today.

oh, and as for the reparations issue, it would be much more useful if you'd choose to look at it this way: by the very act of dragging your ancestors over here in chains, the slaveholders of old inadvertently paid reparations to present-day african-americans--because, had that not happened, where would you be today? you'd be back at home either (a) starving to death in somalia; (b) being hacked to pieces in rwanda; (c) slaving away in a diamond mine in south africa for a dollar a day, or (d) [insert african hellhole of your choice here].

in other words, had american slavery never happened, you'd be somewhere in africa desperately fighting with your last breath to get to where you are right now--here in america, land of the free and home of the brave. think about that a minute--think about the billions of people in this world who would kill to be where you are right now--and, instead of bitching about the past, thank your lucky stars for the present and make the most of where you are and what you have.

in summary, what i'm saying is, (a) to american blacks: make the hard choice--let go of the past and embrace your future here in what is still the most prosperous, forgiving and upwardly-mobile country on earth; and (b) to liberal self-hating whites: grow a spine and stfu.

[and thanks to reader joey7777 for the interesting back-and-forth in the comments section of this post that inspired me to pull this off the back burner, finish it up and publish it]