Robert Stacy McCain wrote:
Among my friends are members of the black middle class who, despite their own accomplishments, find themselves engaged in a constant battle to intervene between their children and “the street,” as they refer to the ghetto/thug subculture. Even in suburbia and small towns, young black people are vulnerable to peer pressure not to “act white” (i.e., be studious, sober, law-abiding) and I suspect that many young Latinos have similar issues.
So the scenario I see is that the parents in the Gomez family managed to work their way out of urban poverty in Chicago, relocate to the tranquil town of Elkhart, only to watch their teenage sons succumb to the pressure to be “authentic,” to represent, as the kids say.
Instead of supporting those parents who want to keep their kids away from gang culture, liberal “activist” types actually encourage criminality by fomenting resentment of law enforcement.
I present to you another member of the black middle class, the former community organizer and former Senator from the Great State of Illinois. Handsome, articulate, charismatic, and popular, he ‘assimilated’ into mainstream American culture, was even able to defeat Her Heiress Apparent, and then be elected, twice, to the highest office in the land. This fine, upstanding gentleman did everything right, at least as far as getting elected — his policies while in office were repugnant — and should have shown other Americans of melanin that there really was a right way for them to succeed.
Yes, I hated his policies, and did not vote for him, other than in the 2008 Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, not for him, but against the odious Hillary Clinton, yet I had high hopes that his example would push the black community in the United States to do better, to more fully integrate into American society.
But, alas! so few of them seem to have learned the lesson of Barack Hussein Obama, and somehow think the way to success is to become rap “artists,” gang-bangers, absent teenaged fathers, and common street criminals.
Of course, there are a lot of black men in our country who do try to do things the right way. They find jobs, work hard at them, and do their best to support their families. The trouble is that we never hear about them; their lives are both steady and quiet. In my career, I’ve known hundreds of them, primarily as concrete mixer drivers, front end loader operators, and a couple of crane operators. They came to work every day, did their jobs, and went home at the end of the day. Three of them, Ike, Skip, and Joe — I won’t publish their full names — saved my sorry ass while I was learning on the job, in my first job with a ready-mixed concrete company.
But what we see and hear of today are the “men” who want to be brave, strong “outlaws,” thinking that shows how tough and masculine they are, will get them a lot of girls, and of course the tremendous monetary rewards they expect. Too lenient prosecutors like Philly’s George Soros-sponsored, police-hating and criminal loving Larry Krasner excuse their ever-increasing crimes, and eventually they are graduated to s(tuff) which gets them long stretches behind bars. Perhaps some think that “prison cred” is even better than “street cred,” if the sentences are short enough, but when they finally kill someone, they might spend twenty years behind bars, and twenty years of prison cred just leaves them out on the street after they get out, with no money, no skills other than crime, and they are behind the times when it comes to that.
Today’s left scream “MAGA!” and “raaaaacism!” against conservatives, but what we want is a civilized society, a civilized society which includes all people and races, behaving in a civilized manner and contributing positively to American society. We want immigrants who enter our country the right way and become upstanding members of our society. We need to return to the days when being on welfare was a stigma and not a goal or a way of life.
We need more Barack Obamas and far, far, far fewer George Floyds.
There’s a popular internet meme that we used to think a lack of information made people stupid, but nope, it wasn’t that!
Apparently, at least in liberal-speak, if you are a member of an Accredited Victim Group™, you do not have to do anything really radical like obey the law or behave like a civilized human being.