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Seeking to Understand the Cultural Divide - Was
Posted on 5/23/25 at 7:25 pm
Posted on 5/23/25 at 7:25 pm
born in '56 and witnessed some of the overt means of a segregated society - particularly in East Baton Rouge parish - and more covertly in Orleans/Jefferson parishes. This is not a statement of right or wrong but simply my experience. Lived through countless movements and upheaval across society in general - Peace/Love; Sexual; Music; Drugs; Warfare; Civil Rights and many more ---- was rather exhaustive.
The Civil Rights movement - in particular - sought to reverse institutional and systemic barriers for Black Americans - and rightly so. Progression over the recent decades has been realized - particularly among those Black Americans who folded into the larger society - specifically Western European. A segment of Black American society lagged and remains to this day - has become woefully generational with no end in the foreseeable future and the rhetoric of victimization serves as evidence [is not like there is an absence of White generational poverty].
The question which continues to beg is why? Those who have refused to assimilate into the larger society have no organizing culture to depend upon, to turn to. In fact, Black Americans have never had an organizing culture since coming to America for they were removed from it and has struggled mightily to discover - so much so we hear voices desiring a return to segregation!
The American Dream remains attainable and is no longer restricted by race/ethnicity - far too many successes to point to. A refusal to assimilate into the larger society is the greatest enemy of prosperity - particularly in the absence of an underlying cultural identity.
The Civil Rights movement - in particular - sought to reverse institutional and systemic barriers for Black Americans - and rightly so. Progression over the recent decades has been realized - particularly among those Black Americans who folded into the larger society - specifically Western European. A segment of Black American society lagged and remains to this day - has become woefully generational with no end in the foreseeable future and the rhetoric of victimization serves as evidence [is not like there is an absence of White generational poverty].
The question which continues to beg is why? Those who have refused to assimilate into the larger society have no organizing culture to depend upon, to turn to. In fact, Black Americans have never had an organizing culture since coming to America for they were removed from it and has struggled mightily to discover - so much so we hear voices desiring a return to segregation!
The American Dream remains attainable and is no longer restricted by race/ethnicity - far too many successes to point to. A refusal to assimilate into the larger society is the greatest enemy of prosperity - particularly in the absence of an underlying cultural identity.
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Posted on 5/23/25 at 7:50 pm to wfallstiger
It's called LBJ's/Democrat Party's Great Society.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 7:54 pm to wfallstiger
quote:You’ve never heard of Malcom X or MLK?
Black Americans have never had an organizing culture since coming to America
Posted on 5/23/25 at 7:59 pm to wfallstiger
My oldest graduated high school this week. Nowhere is the cultural divide more obvious.
Every trashy kid with no prospects, no cords, no special tassels, no sashes, no pin from completing a trade school program, no high GPA designation in the program, etc, was met with thunderous, outrageous, screeching applause that would almost certainly go on for so long that it would drown out the next graduate's name. You could almost predict when this would happen before the name was read off the paper just by seeing them next in line.
Was eye opening. I was ready to move before. My wife is now also ready to move. She had no idea how much trash had infested our area.
Every trashy kid with no prospects, no cords, no special tassels, no sashes, no pin from completing a trade school program, no high GPA designation in the program, etc, was met with thunderous, outrageous, screeching applause that would almost certainly go on for so long that it would drown out the next graduate's name. You could almost predict when this would happen before the name was read off the paper just by seeing them next in line.
Was eye opening. I was ready to move before. My wife is now also ready to move. She had no idea how much trash had infested our area.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 7:59 pm to RFK
quote:
You’ve never heard of Malcom X or MLK?
Backed and funded by the….gasp…..democrat party.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 8:04 pm to RFK
I think I referenced at least one of those two movements but they are 2 sides of the same coin
Posted on 5/23/25 at 8:40 pm to wfallstiger
I grew up in rural Alabama in the late fifties early sixties. I saw “Whites Only” signs on store fronts, ‘colored people’ lived in the “quarters”. I saw oppression and discrimination; it was ugly and wrong. BUT, that was 60 years ago, since then there have been black generals, black CEOs and a black president of the USA, for two terms.
The excuses are used up, if a black person cant do whatever they want to do it’s because they don’t want to. There is no actual deterrent to success for black people except what they impose on themselves.
The excuses are used up, if a black person cant do whatever they want to do it’s because they don’t want to. There is no actual deterrent to success for black people except what they impose on themselves.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 8:50 pm to MMauler
THIS....
The civil rights act, while intentions were good, split the country forever, IMO.
The civil rights act, while intentions were good, split the country forever, IMO.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 10:44 pm to oldskule
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while intentions were good
Wrong. The intentions were not good. The intention was to create a perpetual under class addicted to the government tit that would always vote straight down the Democrat party line.
Subversive and deceptive? Sure.
Good intent in both passing and, more importantly, in execution? Hardly.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 10:46 pm to RFK
I don’t think he was talking about organizing movements.
He’s talking about an organized, coherent culture that advances their prospects. I believe.
He’s talking about an organized, coherent culture that advances their prospects. I believe.
Posted on 5/24/25 at 4:01 am to wfallstiger
Smart blacks have more in common with whites than they do other blacks.
Posted on 5/24/25 at 5:21 am to wfallstiger
Once an issue was identified and the means to undue it were implemented the Left chose to find & solve more & more.
As they deemed necessary.
The process simply repeats itself and only thing that changes is the part of society that’s to be undone.
Every new cause can claim itself to be the next “civil rights” of our time thus arbitrarily occupying the same moral high ground. You oppose (____) you probably don’t want blacks voting or women having equal rights.
This makes you a bigot, racist & automatically on the wrong side of history.
As they deemed necessary.
The process simply repeats itself and only thing that changes is the part of society that’s to be undone.
Every new cause can claim itself to be the next “civil rights” of our time thus arbitrarily occupying the same moral high ground. You oppose (____) you probably don’t want blacks voting or women having equal rights.
This makes you a bigot, racist & automatically on the wrong side of history.
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