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The self defeat of Thesis and his ilk

" In today's climate, too many teachers think they are doing black students a favor by feeding them grievances from the past and telling them how they are oppressed in the present -- and how their future is blocked by white racism. These are the kinds of friends who do more damage than enemies.

Why endure all the hard work, self-discipline and self-denial that a first-rate education requires if The Man is going to stop you from getting anywhere anyway? People who have been pushing this line for years are now suddenly surprised and dismayed to discover that many black students across the country regard academic striving as "acting white."

Many young blacks likewise regard speaking correct English, or even observing the rules of polite society, as "acting white." White liberals often cheer them on in their self-destructive behavior or at least "understand" them and defend them.

Blacks have, in effect, been adopted as mascots by many white liberals. Mascots serve to symbolize something for others but the actual well-being of the mascot himself is seldom a major concern. Blacks have long been used by the left to indict American society.

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So what if the social pathologies in the black community grew far worse after liberal doctrines became government policies in the 1960s? The vision is what matters to the left -- and the opportunities it presents for them to be clever with words."
~Thomas Sowell, July 13, 2004 - "Friends of Blacks" column

""I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by their character."
~ Martin Luther King, September, 1963

The irony is that unless Mr. Sowell's picture was up not everyone would guess that he is black, because he actually lives that dream and does not make a point of his 'color', while Thesis, and all of these folk plugging away to redress wrongs done to ancestors upon people today who had nothing to do with it, help to make King's dream impossible because he cannot refrain from referring to himself primarily in the context of how his color places him in teh world. For every speech by Hallie Barry claiming a prize for her 'people'(never mind that half her people are not black), there is a Walter Williams or a Larry Elder or a Tom Sowell doing far more to advance the equality of a world without color preference.

It's too bad that Thesis, like King's own family, have exactly missed the point. Every time they defend the GROUP, blacks, they impose more ceilings and more division from the core of society. A black or latin who gets somewhere by taking out his competition wins nothing but wary tolerance. . .and an invitation to future alienation. A black or latin who makes the American dream the American way, through sheer hard work and persistence, will earn full respect and no thoughts about color from his peers.