Reflections From a Murky Pond

There may be some hope for America after all, but it’s an untold hope since their are far too many people in the government, the Leftist media, and the “Black Community” who have done and will continue to do anything in their power to ensure such hope remains untold.

Despite the rantings of Liberals and those minorities that base their fame, power, and wealth upon race-baiting antics, the beliefs and desires of the majority of Black population do not seem fall in line behind these jabbering rabble-rousers.

They are reported to have a far different and more honest, introspective, and realistic view of the causes of- and cures or ameliorations for any economic troubles that they might be facing.

Their views also seem to fall directly inline with those of Whites in similar economic straits.

In a recent editorial nationally syndicated columnist, author, and President of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) Star Parker says what the grievance-mongers and their Liberal media enablers don’t want Americans to hear:

The NAACP says it was “snookered” by Fox News on the Shirley Sherrod story.

I say we’ve all been snookered by the NAACP.

The NAACP has shown that those who have written this organization off as irrelevant are wrong. It demonstrated this past week that if it so chooses it can dominate the national discussion with its racial agenda, regardless of what the real pressing issues of national concern may be.

The accusation about Tea Party racism is ridiculous. But even if you don’t think it’s ridiculous, is this the discussion we need to be having when national unemployment hovers at ten percent, and when black unemployment is closer to 15%, double that of whites?

Now, of course, we should be talking about racism if this is what is driving black unemployment. But is it?

I don’t think so. Nor do most blacks.

In January of this year, well into our recession, and well into the emergence of the Tea Party movement, the Pew Research Center surveyed black attitudes.

In answer to the question, “When blacks don’t make progress, who or what is to blame?”, 52% of blacks responded that “blacks” themselves are “mostly responsible”, and 34% said “racism.” This is the reverse of how blacks responded to this question just 15 years ago, when 56% said that racism was the impediment to black progress.

In the same survey, blacks responded almost identically as whites to the question of whether success in life is “determined by forces beyond one’s control” or whether “everyone has the power to succeed.”

Seventy seven percent of blacks and 82% of whites said that “everyone has the power to succeed” and 16% of blacks and 12% whites said success is “determined by forces beyond one’s control.”

And when blacks were asked in this same survey about the main problems facing black families, the response was overwhelmingly exactly the same as the general result of the Gallup poll of last week. Jobs.

So, Americans of all colors today generally feel responsible for their own lives and the main concern of most is the sick state of our economy.

From what I can see Star Parker was referring to the 2007 Pew Research Center study on racial attitudes. It was a solid and hopeful study which I’ve referenced here before. Though, even then, it was in the context of disgust and borderline disillusionment.

Thankfully, Parker’s editorial goes a fair distance in counterbalancing that disgust and disillusionment. It’s heartening – and a bit sobering – to be so eloquently reminded that the caricature that the MSM prefers to paint of the Blacks in America is not necessarily indicative of their real attitudes. Only a minority, albeit a large if shrinking one – of the Blacks have been successfully indoctrinated by the Liberals and the race-baiting grievance-mongers that act as their overseers.

But of course the hope for America – and, frankly, for the Blacks within it – that Star Parker offers up is a largely untold hope. The Liberal media would only report upon it if they could luck into or arrange for someone of the ilk of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or the newer “leadership” of the NAACP to attack Parker for being an “Oreo.”  Hence, aside from a few outlets, this will remain an untold hope.

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If you’re interested in finding out more about Star Parker’s views on the state of “Black Community” and the effects that the American government’s intervention in their lives has had, I highly recommend her book, Uncle Sam’s Plantation. I’ve included a link to it at Amazon and an excerpt from the official review to make things easier.

In Uncle Sam’s Plantation, Star Parker eloquently offers five simple yet profound steps that will allow the nation’s poor to go from entitlement and slavery to empowerment and freedom. By way of example Parker shares her own amazing journey up from the lower rungs of the economic system and addresses the importance of extending the free market system to this neglected group of people. Emphasizing personal initiative, faith, and responsibility, she walks readers toward releasing the hold poverty has over their lives.

Can you imagine the raving uproar from the Liberals if a member of the White House Press Corps had said at some Muslim group that the Arabs should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Jordan and Saudi Arabia? Can you imagine how severe that response would be if the person who said it was Jewish or of Jewish roots?

Pandemonium would ensure as every Liberal media outlet in America broadcast the story and the Muslims and their shills in America raged in bloody riots across the nation.

The Muslims’ and Liberals’ calls for the person’s removal from the White House Press Corps would shake the heavens and the person in question, now branded a raging bigot and Islamophobe, would be instantly banned from President Obama’s White House.

But when Helen Thomas, an Arab born within America and the “Dean” of the White House Press Corps standing outside a White House Jewish heritage event on May 27, 2010, told Rabbi David Nesenoff her opinion of Israel was that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine,” and added that Palestine is a country of occupation, whose occupiers should leave the region, returning to “Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else” there was no outcry at all by the MSM.

The incident didn’t reach the American public’s attention until the Drudge Report publicized RabbiLIVE.com’s video of the filthy Arab’s antisemitic screed against America’s only sincere ally in the Mid-East.

Helen Thomas Provides Proof Arab is Always an Arab

Of course, once it was caught, Helen Thomas “apologized” and many including her employer Hearst Newspapers, seem to willing or eager to let the matter drop, though the agency that represents it, Nine Speakers, Inc., did drop it like the piece of filth that it is.

Sure; whatever it says. It’s only sorry that an American actually managed to draw enough attention to its statement that it might suffer some far more than well-deserved discomfort.

Thomas is 89 so there’s little point in her extermination, but part of me says such a curettement should be still be performed for the public health, as a matter of principle, and to send a stern message to America’s foreign and titularly domestic enemies.

Other parts of my soul remember that we Americans cannot protect the health of nation in that way due to the inviolate 1st Amendment of our Constitution. That’s probably for the best, since it would set a precedence that our enemies, both current and future, might use it to America’s detriment.

Obama’s White House, utterly unsurprisingly, seems to have no problems or issues with either Helen Thomas’ antisemitism or its fondness for Jew-baiting. It’s beyond unlikely that they’ll censure it in any way unless forced to do so by the American people, and even that seems more and more unlikely to be successful as Obama’s regime further divorces itself from we, the People.

UPDATE: Thomas has retired in disgrace, effective immediately. In the wake of Thomas’ retirement the Obama administration finally spoke out and described Thomas’ remarks as, “offensive and reprehensible.”

This has become an old story in Israel, but one that many of the Israel and America hating, anti-Semite Left seem to love to keep pushing into the headlines. A bunch of Arabs, normally publicly identifying as Palestinians, build houses either where building is not allowed or without first getting the proper permits and the government’s response is to drive the squatters out and demolish the illegally constructed houses.

I would ask if these Liberals would raise this most current case as they have so stridently raised others in the past, but this instance of Arab’s having the homes destroyed by the government is sufficiently – and to the Liberals very significantly – different. It was the terrorists of Hamas doing it to their own people in Rafah this time.

I’m sure that the “government” of Gaza, Hamas’ demolishing such illegally built homes will sit both differently and more comfortably with the Left since they much prefer Hamas to the Jews.

As reported on Monday, May 16, 2010 by Associated Press:

RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Hamas police wielding clubs beat and pushed residents out of dozens of homes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Sunday before knocking the buildings down with bulldozers, residents said.Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers said the homes were built illegally on government land. Newly homeless residents were furious over Palestinians on bulldozers razing Palestinian homes.

For years, Palestinians have criticized Israel for destroying houses, mostly because they were built without permits issued by the military. Now, Rafah residents complained, their own government, run by the Islamic militant Hamas that seized power in Gaza in July 2007, has done the same.

“They promised reform and change — instead they’ve destroyed our homes,” shouted Miasar Gan, a 54-year-old woman. Gan said she and her husband had nowhere else to go. “I found my mattress, and that’s where I’ll be sitting,” she said, standing next to the concrete chunks — all that was left of her house.

Her neighbor, Nazira Abu Jara, 56, said policewomen wearing face veils typical of conservative Muslim women beat her with clubs until she fled her house with her husband and two children. “Neighbors help us get by with charity. We can’t afford to build again,” Abu Jara said.

Others picked through rubble to retrieve dusty clothing and mangled furniture.

Residents said between 30 and 40 homes were torn down, ranging from concrete structures to tin shacks. They did not know how many people were affected. Hamas officials did not allow reporters into the area until the demolition was over.

Residents said more demolitions in the area were expected Monday.

No. Don’t expect the Liberals in America to mention it at all. Certainly don’t expect the MSM to run the story since none of them have or will. That would be like expecting them to breath word of the conditions endured by the Palestinians who’ve been confined for literally generations to refugee camps in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Even more importantly, don’t expect Obama’s regime to mention, much less condemn, this incident of home destruction.  Doing so wouldn’t further the White House’s apparent political agenda in the Mid-East which does not seem to be one that includes Israel as a sovereign nation.