The Election Exposes A Gigantic Racial Divide
Dec 30, 2016 20:20:33 #
I'm paraphrasing everything in this post from Ben Stein's very timely monthly piece in Newsmax Magazine's January issue; This is ALL Ben Steins "thinking", (even though I totally agree with everything he says.)
Ben Stein; This country is coming unglued over race. It's always been a problem that roughly 14% of the population feels alienated and mistreated.
That would be the blacks. They not only felt alienated and mistreated, they were alienated and mistreated from the time they arrived here as slaves in the early 17th century until roughly the last 40 years.
They did not have full legal rights. Their schools were abysmal. They were mocked and belittled in the halls of Congress and in the mass culture. But now there has been an immense change. Black people today are fully legally equal to whites. In many, if not most cases, they are given preferential treatment as compared with whites. They get favor in school applications and in jobs, and in the mass culture, they are allowed to misbehave and have vile obscenities pour from their lips on TV and on stage that would not be tolerated from white people.
Bear in mind, I am talking about only a small minority of black people. Most, of course, are perfectly decent people, but enough of them are violent and disturbing that they frighten and upset a great many people who are not black, (and many who ARE black.)
They have become a privileged minority; you cannot criticize them; you cannot complain about them. They have gone from being vilified to being worshiped.
We now have a very small percentage of the population responsible for a huge percentage of violent crime. We have a stunningly large percentage of black children and and adults who simply cannot read or do basic math. We have vastly greater voluntary unemployment among blacks than among whites and asians.
Yet, Hillary Clinton knew that she could not possibly win without surrounding herself with blacks and begging them for their votes. IMHO, she went off the rails by hanging out on stage with black entertainers who used the most vile words and gestures to refer to white people who supported her opponent.
She made herself the candidate of people who were frightening and bewildering to many whites.
Those whites were angry-at least some of them- at at what they saw as the parasitism and violence of blacks. When we have a program of stigmatizing the whites and blacks on the police force as purposely murderous to blacks, that's not only factually wrong, it's morally repulsive and wicked. It is not a sin to be white, (any more than it's a sin to be black or any other race.)
Yet Clinton threw in her lot with people supporting such views, and it hurt her badly among working class white people-and this is still a mostly white country. The result was a huge outperformance by Donald Trump among whites. This was enough to win the election for Trump when connected with the historically low turnout of blacks at the polls.
Anyone who misses reading this piece by Ben Stein in it's entirety in Newsmax will be missing one of the most eloquent pieces of opinion writing that I have seen in a long time.
Gitzo
Ben Stein; This country is coming unglued over race. It's always been a problem that roughly 14% of the population feels alienated and mistreated.
That would be the blacks. They not only felt alienated and mistreated, they were alienated and mistreated from the time they arrived here as slaves in the early 17th century until roughly the last 40 years.
They did not have full legal rights. Their schools were abysmal. They were mocked and belittled in the halls of Congress and in the mass culture. But now there has been an immense change. Black people today are fully legally equal to whites. In many, if not most cases, they are given preferential treatment as compared with whites. They get favor in school applications and in jobs, and in the mass culture, they are allowed to misbehave and have vile obscenities pour from their lips on TV and on stage that would not be tolerated from white people.
Bear in mind, I am talking about only a small minority of black people. Most, of course, are perfectly decent people, but enough of them are violent and disturbing that they frighten and upset a great many people who are not black, (and many who ARE black.)
They have become a privileged minority; you cannot criticize them; you cannot complain about them. They have gone from being vilified to being worshiped.
We now have a very small percentage of the population responsible for a huge percentage of violent crime. We have a stunningly large percentage of black children and and adults who simply cannot read or do basic math. We have vastly greater voluntary unemployment among blacks than among whites and asians.
Yet, Hillary Clinton knew that she could not possibly win without surrounding herself with blacks and begging them for their votes. IMHO, she went off the rails by hanging out on stage with black entertainers who used the most vile words and gestures to refer to white people who supported her opponent.
She made herself the candidate of people who were frightening and bewildering to many whites.
Those whites were angry-at least some of them- at at what they saw as the parasitism and violence of blacks. When we have a program of stigmatizing the whites and blacks on the police force as purposely murderous to blacks, that's not only factually wrong, it's morally repulsive and wicked. It is not a sin to be white, (any more than it's a sin to be black or any other race.)
Yet Clinton threw in her lot with people supporting such views, and it hurt her badly among working class white people-and this is still a mostly white country. The result was a huge outperformance by Donald Trump among whites. This was enough to win the election for Trump when connected with the historically low turnout of blacks at the polls.
Anyone who misses reading this piece by Ben Stein in it's entirety in Newsmax will be missing one of the most eloquent pieces of opinion writing that I have seen in a long time.
Gitzo
Dec 30, 2016 20:39:21 #
Gitzo wrote:
I'm paraphrasing everything in this post from Ben ... (show quote)
The problem is that this is not what the democrats want to hear, they want to hear that the Russians threw the election for Trump. As usual the liberals refuse to take responsibility for their actions.
Dec 30, 2016 20:57:03 #
The dems are playing that card again. The last time I looked we elected a black president, twice. Next they will say we hate woman just because we rejected Hillary the liar.
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