If African Americans were to get their acts together and make some progress, would this please the zeitgeist? Or would it just irritate it?
Dennis Dale points out that elite black political action:
… has become largely about translating black failure into political power. Failure, fed through enforced faith in the equality of the races, is black political power. The black elite and their white allies love black failure, even if they don’t know it.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Blacks and jews have this in common. For jews, to be without their sense of persecution is equivalent to having one of those dreams in which one imagines themselves as appearing in public without their pants on. Stripped of their sense of being uniquely persecuted, both jews and blacks feel naked. They have no defense and having no defense, they have no offensive weapon with which to manipulate the society they live in. Finding this situation intolerable they lash out blindly at any white who persecutes them by denying them the right to feel persecuted.
Both imagine themselves to be superior beings in the white world in which they find themselves and deeply resent any suggestion that they must engage in manual labor or gritty productive work which produces a tangible product. Seemingly every black I have known has claimed to be the descendent of some imagined African “royalty”. I’ve never met a jewish man who wasn’t ruled by his mother’s injunction to avoid, of all things, working with his hands.
They are drawn together by their common interest in avoiding labor and in their effort to enslave the white race. Every jewish-conceived and supported social program enacted in the last fifty years which redistributes wealth from the white middle class to poor blacks attests to the truth of these claims.
* It is not that Blacks have a great amount of absolute political power, but they drive public policy way above what they merit: school policy; housing policy; policing; hiring; etc., all done largely in service to caring for chronic non-achievers.
We are having 50 yr. anniversaries of the civil rights era, and you’d think we’ve gone backwards from all the anxiety and hand wringing we get from that quarter. I can’t imagine things ever getting better. With the signal achievement of the moon landing, we got a “Whitey on the Moon” lament. It has pretty much been a non-stop repeat of that sentiment ever since.
* White people need their own “victim narrative” if you will to reclaim moral superiority-nay, moral equality at least.
I only fear the rivers of blood this would require.
* Black pols may not dominate, but “the black problem” does dominate. If you doubt that, try repeating what you just said at your next staff meeting or in front of the HR people. You’re fired in an hour.
Blacks have been given a form of the heckler’s veto over public discourse.
* Jews are even more sufferistic, but they are richer and more sucessful than others.
It’s really black dominance in pop music and sports that really does the trick.
Suppose white Americans bought slaves from Bolivia instead of from Africa.
Do you think whites would care much about short, unfunky, and unathletic Bolivian-Americans bitching about their problems?
* Could this be part of the reason that the Black Caucus shows so little interest in measures that might actually reduce black failure, e.g., more and better vocational training combined with measures like immigration control and restrictions on imports from low-wage countries like China that might increase the demand for African American labor?
* It’s only dysfunction in the context of white norms. What so many clueless whites refer to as “blacks behaving badly” is really just “blacks behaving typically”. Look at the behavior of Africans in Africa.
* This is also one of the reasons the far left doesn’t like Israel–they’re whiter than the Palestinians, and get judged by the ‘white’ yardstick when it comes to repression (you don’t see the Left forming huge groups to go after, say, East Timor.)
Of course, the Israelis have the neocons and Jewish center-left going to bat for them.
But Russia gets screwed twice–they’re white, and anti-gay. We hear a lot about Russia making propounding gay rights illegal, but little about African countries making actually being gay illegal, as in killing people found having gay sex.
