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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (156319)6/28/2001 2:15:20 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
To be clear however, this is true of all other groups as well.

Of course none of the other groups had just spent 250 years in slavery (1619-1865ish) and another 70 years in blistering discrimination (1865ish-1930's and beyond). The other groups could somewhat absorb the moral crash that assaulted them. But because of their unique experiences in this country, blacks could not.

I of course lay much of the blame on ignorant racist whites. But I am certainly compelled to lay some of it on narrow-minded blacks such as W.E.B. Dubois. The ignorant racist whites, by oppressing blacks through such groups as the Klan, worked unknowingly with Dubois to turn the focus of post-slavery blacks away from progress by agriculture and industry toward a program of progress by protest and politics. The NAACP was born of this effort and when black protests garnered successes, it completed the abominable transformation. It is why so many blacks run in knee-jerk fashion to The Protest this very day. These folks ain't thinking at all. Whereas at one time hard work, patience and diligence defined black culture (these virtues got them through slavery), boisterous protest now defines it.

It really is a pity, because Agriculture was the industry before, during and just after Reconstruction. Black scientists such as George Carver were making their mark. Carver was actually teaching young blacks at Tuskegee under Booker T. Washington. But the vision was all destroyed and blacks yet suffer because the work they should have done just after slavery remains unfinished.
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