Black Man Thinkin'

To the extent this is credible – Oh, how the American black mind calcifies!

Blacks are pessimistic about, and choose to consider racist, an elected official who’s presided over:

• The lowest level of black unemployment ever recorded,
• Collaboration with a black Senator and a black entertainer’s spouse to advocate for and enact criminal justice reform, passed overwhelmingly by a Republican-controlled House and Senate; he also pardoned a black boxer convicted of flouting the racism of his day and has so used his clemency powers that the number of beneficiaries warranted a Wikipedia article,
• Support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), evidenced by:
  • Signing an Executive Order prioritizing their issues and moving management of federal funds for them out of the federal bureaucracy and into the White House,
  • Allocating $150M more dollars to them, in his first 2 years, than did his predecessor,
  • Forgiving more than $320M of federal loans made to 4 schools harmed by Hurricane Katrina,
  • Continuing permanent funding for them, once Congress – who holds the federal purse strings – opted to allocate same,
  • (By the way, while I personally am not an HBCU fan, it is hard to argue against the president’s assertion that HBCUs have “never had better champions in the White House.”)
• A push against illegal immigration, which disproportionately harms blacks, especially men.

Interestingly, Trump’s thinking and behavior toward blacks is virtually unchanged from what it had been before he sought the presidency, which represents a time when he was acknowledged for a “lifetime of service to African Americans” by one Jesse Louis Jackson. In an existence more public than most, Trump endured failed companies, failed marriages, ridicule, bankruptcies, and was called many things; however, ‘racist’ was not among them.

(I’m aware of the federal housing discrimination lawsuit; no one has shown that he did anything more than seek not to lease apartments to those he believed were unlikely to pay rent…and he wrote in one of his books,  “What we didn’t do was rent to welfare cases, white or black”.

I’m also aware of Trump’s stance regarding the Central Park Five…and I don’t care. Trump didn’t produce the case against them; NYPD and the District Attorney’s office did. Nor has anyone shown he might have acted differently had the perceived perpetrators not been black. Trump has mad love for NYC for many reasons, including business, and that crime was an assault on ‘his’ city.)

Donald John Trump is an out-sized personality who has supported blacks for decades, and that behavior continued after his unexpected ascent to the presidency. Trump hasn’t changed; however black perception of Trump has, and that change is more likely to condemn blacks than condemn the president, in the eyes of the nation and her electorate.

Begin with the poll finding blacks the most racist U.S. demographic, even in the minds of blacks.

Then consider public positions that blacks take which at least appear unreasonable:

• #BlackLivesMatter claims the police are hunting blacks, despite the fact black deaths at the hands of law enforcement are rare, despite the fact far more whites die, and despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of homicides caused by law enforcement are, indeed, lawful,
• #BlackLivesMatter, while focusing on the 230 blacks killed by police in 2018, are silent regarding the 2,600 blacks killed by other blacks in the same year 2018, and are dismissive of the more than 128,000 black lives lost to abortion in 2016 alone,
• Blacks seek the federal government to recompense them for slavery, despite the fact the federal government never authorized or supported the institution. Despite the fact the governments of slave states were abolished and re-established – with the proviso that slavery would be illegal – following the Civil War; they no longer exist. Finally, less than 5% of free Americans owned slaves in 1860 and, today, 40% of Americans trace their history to Ellis Island, which did not open until 1892 more than 2 decades after slavery was abolished. That ‘bill’ will never be recognized or paid by the American people,
• Blacks claim whites and Republicans suppress their votes, but cite no instances in which a black person who wanted to vote either COULD not register to vote or a COULD not cast a ballot. Meanwhile they dismiss the obvious voter and election fraud in which blacks, like the Good Witch Dr. Brenda Snipes, regularly engage.

Such hypocritical and nonsensical rhetoric damage black credibility. Couple that with disproportionately high illegitimacy, abortion, criminality, and STD infection rates, and it becomes reasonable to wonder about the current humanity of a people who just 6 decades ago led the nation on a moral crusade against inhumanity.

Blacks, as a group, are marginalizing themselves, with an especially virulent strain of  TDS that renders those affected all but incapable of rational thought or conversation where the president is concerned, that renders them deaf to anyone who’s not a progressive member of the Democrat Party, or a progressive agent of the mainstream (or left-wing) media. Other whites who attempt to engage them are labeled racists exercising white privilege; blacks who deign to approach are labeled “coons” or other pejorative terms.

This would not be a testimony against blacks were they not faring measurably better under Trump than than they fared under his predecessor. Blacks show less regard for a white president who serves them well, than for a black one who made them at best a third priority, behind homosexuals and illegal immigrants. And the country saw and took note of the obvious racism and lack of logic.

Consequently whites, Latinos, and Asians are becoming less likely to engage with blacks on issues that impact the country at large…because blacks reduce the areas  of objective American commonality between themselves and other citizens. Even Jews, longtime allies with blacks on political and social issues, are re-evaluating their relationships with blacks, in the wake of rising – and violent – anti-Semitism from members of the black community.

Meaning blacks, through every fault of their own, will see their part in the national conversation decrease. While there remains a call for national unity, many blacks opt to be the ice block in the Great American Melting Pot – critical of the good economy, critical of not being at war, critical of the military, (hypo-) critical toward God, critical of anyone or anything that runs counter to what they espouse.

And what far too many blacks accept, without claiming to so do, represents a cultural posture that cannot help them…or anyone else:

• A relative disdain for the two-parent nuclear family,
• A disproportionate embrace of homosexuality,
• Continued poor educational performance,
• Music that encourages defying authority, denigrating women, and that celebrates criminal behavior,
• Measuring themselves against whites, rather than pursuing goals, and
• Assorted lies to support a victim narrative.

Many born-in-America blacks have chosen a backward-looking mindset that prevents fully benefiting from what their country offers; instead of opening their hands to America’s current and future opportunities, they would rather shake a clenched fist at America’s past,  detaching themselves from Americanism and making themselves adversaries – if not enemies – of the state. That is a ruinous prescription for every black person inclined to get it filled. and that is what currently destroys black influence – political, social, and cultural – in America.

Fortunately, a small but increasing number of blacks want a new drug.

The temptation, fed by the media, is to see black support for Trump as an embrace of the president himself. It is likely not that; it stems from a realization that the political path for blacks need not be charted by those who are false friends to them, and who hate the country itself.

The number of blacks who will side with America will not eclipse the number whom Malcolm Little described as “political chumps and traitors to their race” anytime soon. But it would be un-American (and ungodly) not to hope, fervently, that it one day will. Just as abolitionists held out hope for decades that enough would agree with them so chattel slavery would end. Just as many hoped, for nearly a century following Reconstruction, for  laws encoding segregation into American society to fall. In both those cases, holding out hope was warranted though, at the time, it may have seemed pointless.

My thought is that hope will prove warranted in this instance as well, that the majority of blacks will embrace the political and ideological postures that underpin American confidence and success, and I believe they will. However, until that change occurs, America will continue to witness a decline in the fortunes of her black population; a decline which the nation will find painful to observe, but one that it cannot stop…because it’s a Black thing.