Racism, Gangster Glorification, Political Correctness And Bigots

The politics of race are often polarizing. If one narrative or another is not accepted, people get accused of racism or something else.

It is possible to recognize the existence of racism and how it has detrimentally affected African Americans while also recognizing other reasons why there are high levels of crime and violence in many low income African American communities.

Political correctness shuts down discourse. It is a cult that wants adherence and obedience, not discussions or solutions.

So in the face of the mind numbing cult that has swept the nation, especially academic places where pampered professors get to spew nonsense unopposed, hindering progress and critical thinking, here goes.....

Racism created difficult problems facing many African Americans.

Other things added to it that have made the problems much worse. This includes the flight of millions of labor job in manufacturing to countries outside of the United States where there is cheap labor and loose safety and environmental restrictions.

A thriving drug trafficking economy filled the vacuum, creating communities where gangs are the major employer.

A gangster culture emerged glorifying thug life. A few became fabulously wealthy from glorifying this life, while quickly removing themselves to palatial mansions far from the chaos they create.

When children are raised in communities where gangs and drug dealers are the major players and thug life is glorified by the idiots producing and making the music these children hear every day, it is unsurprising that children embrace this life as they get older.

Then there are the multimillionaire leaders with their cult like followings and others that offer no way out of the mess other than the same crap offered for over the past fifty years: be angry, act angry, be militant, be a bigot, use deflection to avoid responsibility, be violent or excuse, justify or condone violence, make sure to always have a target to blame and a scapegoat to hate, make sure to have an enemy to demonize and to cast blame upon. Make sure the scapegoat is the fall guy, responsible for everything bad. In the case of Farrakhan, he found something even better than blame the white man: blame the Jew, whereby he combined Jew hate with religion where the Jew was already demonized by many.

Scapegoats, bigotry, violence and hate are not the way out. While violence rages, the hate cults of bigoted white men and women and of bigoted black men and women and others, often done under the name of religion, grow and prosper while communities continue to die.

The way of Martin Luther King Jr. is the right way. Nonviolence, education, kindness, love, equal rights and equal treatment for all - the rejection of violence, hate and bigotry, not excuses made for it.

Those that glorify violence or turn a blind eye to it, the race baiters and bigots of all races; the men and women that think hate and bigotry are acceptable as long as it comes from the race, religion, or ethnicity they prefer - must finally be confronted and rejected.