The White/Black Experiment Has Failed

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[An opinion piece by academian Anthony Bryan]

For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites. The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?

The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.

Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball. Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the “achievement gap.” To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity!” and “Say No To Racism.” Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.

Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing. Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them.

Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and majority-black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment. Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson and Baltimore, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away.

The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, more opportunities. But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president.

Some argue it’s a problem of “culture,” as if culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame “white privilege.” But since 1965, when the elites opened America’s doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India–people who are not white, not rich, and not “connected”–have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black “youths” are committing half the country’s violent crime–crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it, that has nothing to do with poverty.

The experiment has failed. Not because of culture, or white privilege, or racism.

Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, the reflexive animosity. The elites explain everything with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.

Anthony Bryan

[SHMIV]

The author is wrong. Well, partly, anyway.

Government intrusion is why this thing has failed. The author seems to think that black people, in general, are simply incapable of taking part in civilized society in any productive way.

Black folk were, actually, taking part in society, in a productive way, up until Kennedy inserted him into the MLK affair, then Johnson sealed the deal, and Dems have been manipulating the Black population, ever since.

Had the Government just refrained from meddling in Black lives, since the 1800's, racism would be something that we'd read about in novels occasionally,but never actually experience.

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[FiremanBob]

That screed is a very poor analysis, so overly simplistic and illogical that one must question both the intelligence and the bigotry of its author.

As H said, black Americans were on an excellent path toward full cultural and economic assimilation into the 1960s. Nothing is perfect, but real progress, in the right direction, was being made. Dr. King, a great man, had the correct outlook and objectives - at least until the Communists in his movement began to influence his economic ideas. The combination of losing Dr. King and the implementation of President Johnson's evil plan to make black Americans dependent on the federal government (and therefore on the Democrat party) destroyed all the progress that had been made. Then the Democrat party went all-out to expand Johnson's strategy, combined with its own fascist elements desiring to destroy all non-governmental societal institutions and set factions of society against each other. More recently, figuring they had black Americans firmly imprisoned on their plantation of dependency, they launched the same strategy with illegal immigrants - and now we are on the brink of social and economic collapse.

And to what end? I am convinced that the leaders of the Democrat party - what Orwell would call the Inner Party Members, know that their public ideology is total BS. It's all about their own personal financial enrichment through the corrupt exercise of power. The Outer Party Members are the ones who actually believe the Democrats published policies and "philosophy" - they are the dupes who believe the lies invented by their leaders. Lenin and Trotsky call them the "useful idiots". You can find them in media, in universities and public school systems, and in Whole Foods Markets all over the country.

[SHMIV]

Incidentally, we hear so much about racism, where there is none to be found.

The premise of this article, that black folks are just incapable of civilization, is actual racism. That's what racism looks like.

I know too many black people to believe that tripe.

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[MarcSpaz]

At first I thought it was a bad joke... Instead its a bad person writting garbage. The sad part is.. As with most opinions... The guys actually believes that crap.

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[Swampman]

American Renaissance publishes his swill. Haven't we had enough of that white supremacist crap? Check your sources before you post. I, for one, don't wish to be associated with him or people like him.

[Jeff82]

The author is wrong. Well, partly, anyway.

Government intrusion is why this thing has failed. The author seems to think that black people, in general, are simply incapable of taking part in civilized society in any productive way.

Black folk were, actually, taking part in society, in a productive way, up until Kennedy inserted him into the MLK affair, then Johnson sealed the deal, and Dems have been manipulating the Black population, ever since.

Had the Government just refrained from meddling in Black lives, since the 1800's, racism would be something that we'd read about in novels occasionally,but never actually experience.

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That screed is a very poor analysis, so overly simplistic and illogical that one must question both the intelligence and the bigotry of its author.

As H said, black Americans were on an excellent path toward full cultural and economic assimilation into the 1960s. Nothing is perfect, but real progress, in the right direction, was being made. Dr. King, a great man, had the correct outlook and objectives - at least until the Communists in his movement began to influence his economic ideas. The combination of losing Dr. King and the implementation of President Johnson's evil plan to make black Americans dependent on the federal government (and therefore on the Democrat party) destroyed all the progress that had been made. Then the Democrat party went all-out to expand Johnson's strategy, combined with its own fascist elements desiring to destroy all non-governmental societal institutions and set factions of society against each other. More recently, figuring they had black Americans firmly imprisoned on their plantation of dependency, they launched the same strategy with illegal immigrants - and now we are on the brink of social and economic collapse.

And to what end? I am convinced that the leaders of the Democrat party - what Orwell would call the Inner Party Members, know that their public ideology is total BS. It's all about their own personal financial enrichment through the corrupt exercise of power. The Outer Party Members are the ones who actually believe the Democrats published policies and "philosophy" - they are the dupes who believe the lies invented by their leaders. Lenin and Trotsky call them the "useful idiots". You can find them in media, in universities and public school systems, and in Whole Foods Markets all over the country.

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