Originally Posted by
Seneca Pilot
I think the original passage of the minimum wage was probably well intentioned but it did irreparable harm to the very people it was intended to help. With LBJ and his pushing of the welfare state there is a good bit of evidence contained within the conversations caught on the White House tapes that he knew exactly what he was doing. I'm paraphrasing but he made references to buying N votes for a hundred years with the nomination of Thurgood Marshall. In fact Democrats being racists and mostly trying to retain their power and racist views the Civil Rights Act would not have passed with out Republicans supporting it with 80% of their vote.
It comes down to this: You list statistics that show the black community as being the perpetrators of crime at a higher rate, parents of children out of wedlock at a higher rate, and as the group most responsible for killing people of their same race. No one can deny that these statistics are true.
You blame these statistics on cultural issues, as if that is less racist than blaming it on physical issues like the racism of past. The problem that you fail to see is this: what you are saying is no less racist than blaming these issues on physical traits.
Please read what follows with an open mind, and realize that it is not meant to criticize you as a person:
Having children out of wedlock and committing crime are clearly behaviors that are undesirable to you. So when you attribute them to a race, you are saying that the behaviors of the black community are inferior to those of the white community, who commit less of these crimes according to you. That is, by any definition, racism. If you were to follow up these statistics with some sort of analysis as to
why the black community is affected by these issues at a higher rate (read: call out institutional racism), then it would be a constructive conversation about the issue of race in America. What you are doing in actuality is just pointing a finger at the black community while inferring that their culture is inferior. For the record, I am not one of those people who will scream racist and stop the conversation. I am trying to get you to take an in depth analysis of your beliefs. We are not taught to effectively talk about race in this country, which is why these conversations are important. It is indeed possible to have racist ideas, and not be a racist. The onus is on us to evaluate and better ourselves, something we seem to be incapable of doing as a population. I appreciate the civil conversation.
Also, please farther research political parties in this country. Resting on the laurels of a name that no longer represents a party of today is lazy and revisionist.