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Title: A Nation of Cowards [The racial "civil rights struggle is over and it is won"]
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URL Source: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/econ ... ticles/09/ANationOfCowards.htm
Published: Feb 25, 2009
Author: Dr. Walter E. Williams
Post Date: 2009-03-03 16:12:26 by IndieTX
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Views: 351
Comments: 17
Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race relations. In one sense, he is absolutely right. Many whites, from university administrators and professors, schoolteachers to employers and public officials accept behavior from black people that they wouldn't begin to accept from whites. For example, some of the nation's most elite universities, such as Vanderbilt, Stanford University and the University of California, have yielded to black student demands for separate graduation ceremonies and separate "celebratory events." Universities such as Stanford, Cornell, MIT, and Cal Berkeley have, or have had, segregated dorms. If white students demanded whites-only graduation ceremonies or whites-only dorms, administrators would have labeled their demands as intolerable racism. When black students demand the same thing, these administrators cowardly capitulate. Calling these university administrators cowards is the most flattering characterization of their behavior. They might actually be stupid enough to believe nonsense taught by their some of sociology and psychology professors that blacks can't be racists because they don't have power.
What about Holder's statement that America is "voluntarily segregated"? I say, so what. According to the census, in 2007, 4.6 percent of married blacks were married to a white; less than 1 percent of married whites were married to a black. While blacks are 13 percent of the population, they are 80 percent of professional basketball players and 65 percent of professional football players. Mere casual observance of audiences at ice hockey games or opera performances would reveal gross voluntary segregation. What would Holder propose the U.S. Justice Department do about these and other instances of voluntary segregation?
Attorney General Holder's flawed thinking is widespread whereby people think that an activity that is not racially integrated is therefore segregated. Blacks are about 60 percent of the Washington, D.C. population. At the Reagan National Airport, which serves D.C., nowhere near 60 percent of the airport's water fountain users are black; I'd guess blacks are never more than 5 percent of users. The population statistics of states such as South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Montana and Vermont show that not even 1 percent of their populations are black. Does that mean Reagan National Airport water fountains and South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Montana and Vermont are racially segregated? If Holder does anything about "voluntary segregation" at the state level I hope it's not court-ordered busing; I'm not wild about their winters. Just because some activity is not racially integrated does not mean that it is racially segregated.
The bottom line is that the civil rights struggle is over and it is won. At one time black Americans didn't share the constitutional guarantees shared by whites; today we do. That does not mean that there are not major problems that confront a large segment of the black community, but they are not civil rights problems nor can they be solved through a "conversation on race." Black illegitimacy stands at 70 percent; nearly 50 percent of black students drop out of high school; and only 30 percent of black youngsters reside in two-parent families. In 2005, while 13 percent of the population, blacks committed over 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were 46 percent of the homicide victims. Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer. Such pathology, I think much of it precipitated by family breakdown, is entirely new among blacks. In 1940, black illegitimacy was 19 percent; in 1950, only 18 percent of black households were female-headed compared with today's 70 percent. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.
If black people continue to accept the corrupt blame game agenda of liberal whites, black politicians and assorted hustlers, as opposed to accepting personal responsibility, the future for many black Americans will remain bleak.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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#1. To: PREFRONTAL VORTEX, REDPANTHER (#0)
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
I'd have voted for a ticket of Dr. Williams and Bill Cosby...or any other two intellectually honest Americans. I'm just tired of the b.s. from the two wings of the same buzzard.
Ditto that. Instead we get more of the hypocrisy that Dr. Williams so eloquently exposes.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
I don't believe most whites mind if black have their own dorms or neighborhoods. It means fewer blacks you have to put up with. Not only that, it will make it easier for white kids to gang up on the remaining black kids encouraging their families to move to segregated blacks areas too.
blacks won't listen to the good professor.
I do like Walter very much. One quibble... Such pathology, I think much of it precipitated by family breakdown, is entirely new among blacks. That's not quite the truth. It is new for blacks in a white majority country. Because not only are whites are no longer enforcing their traditional norms, they enacted social programs that undermine them.
Erectus Walks Amongst Us No kidding.
Erectus Walks Amongst Us Blacks are not his audience.
Erectus Walks Amongst Us No, it isn't and No, it isn't.
No, it isn't and No, it isn't. So engage in debate with Dr. Williams and see if you can address his points and score any of your own. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
WW is by far my favorite libertarian neocon. DOH !
WW is a neocon? I know he used to sit in for limbaugh, but that was years ago before I even knew what a neocon was.
A libertarian neocon. Seems like he goes along with the official story statism.
Thanks to the Bush family and the Republican Party, America now has a Black Saint sitting in the Oval Office. In the face of economic crisies it remains to be seen if bloacks. with the indespensible help of the Jewish-controlled media, can remain in power withour calling forth a police state.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
I directly blame approximately 75-80% of the repubican sheeple and 96-99% of democan sheeple. It's not a good situation for America to make a comeback and move forward as a viable, sovereign and free Constitutional Republic.
I directly blame approximately 75-80% of the repubican sheeple and 96-99% of democan sheeple. The media and the two party system have colluded to misguide the average American towards a socialist State that many are currently rejecting. Just because we've had some reason to wake up and see what we're losing doesn't mean that others have. Many of our friends and neighbors will be awakening and we should make our best efforts right now to assist them in this. Many of our countrymen aren't intelligent enough to see through the lies being broadcast daily on every form of media available to them in those short periods when they aren't trying to earn a living or relax from it. Our enemies (when not ourselves) are the elitist politicians, multinational industrialists, and the international bankers.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
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"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#2. To: IndieTX. all (#1)
#3. To: lodwick (#2)
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#4. To: IndieTX (#0)
#5. To: IndieTX (#0)
If black people continue to accept the corrupt blame game agenda of liberal whites, black politicians and assorted hustlers, as opposed to accepting personal responsibility, the future for many black Americans will remain bleak.
#6. To: IndieTX (#1)
I will not go to Auschwitz. I have ordered the book. Da-do-run-run-run Da-do-run-run.
#7. To: lodwick (#2)
I'd have voted for a ticket of Dr. Williams and Bill Cosby.
I will not go to Auschwitz. I have ordered the book. Da-do-run-run-run Da-do-run-run.
#8. To: christine (#5)
blacks won't listen to the good professor
I will not go to Auschwitz. I have ordered the book. Da-do-run-run-run Da-do-run-run.
#9. To: IndieTX (#0)
The racial "civil rights struggle is over and it is won.
#10. To: Sarajevo (#9)
(Edited)
The racial "civil rights struggle is over and it is won.
Don't just sit here and tell me "no it isn't." Respond to the article.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#11. To: christine (#5)
blacks won't listen to the good professor.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#12. To: IndieTX (#0)
Woot !
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#13. To: Rotara (#11)
#14. To: christine (#13)
WW is a neocon? I know he used to sit in for limbaugh, but that was years ago before I even knew what a neocon was.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#15. To: Rotara (#14)
#16. To: Zoroaster (#15)
Thanks to the Bush family and the Republican Party
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#17. To: Rotara, Zoroaster (#16)
Thanks to the Bush family and the Republican Party
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