By Michael Schaus
Saturday, August 16, 2014
If liberals truly cared about the plight of today’s black
community, they wouldn’t be “standing in solidarity” with a bunch of outraged
looters in Ferguson, Missouri… They would be denouncing the party of the KKK,
Jim Crow, and segregation. They would be burning the homes of gang members.
They would be fighting for the single black mother who is facing up to three
years in prison for deciding to defend her life with a firearm.
In short… They would be rampaging against the morally
bankrupt hustlers of victimhood and dependency. Or, to put it another way, they
would be voting Republican.
I mean, let’s face it: The riots, rallies, and violence
in Ferguson are not about empowerment, justice or even indignation. Heck, where
are the rallies for the more than 400 people killed in Chicago last year? Where
is the outrage over governments systematically making it impossible for
poverty-stricken inner cities to defend themselves?
Yet, there is a left-wing groundswell of support for the
lawlessness that has followed a questionable police shooting just outside of St
Louis. The truth is, this story isn’t really about racism, police brutality, or
even tragedy… This story is about the failure of Liberalism. It is an
indictment of the liberal culture of victimhood, and oppression. The riots, the
violence, and the anti-police actions of the Black Panthers,
"Anonymous", and average thugs in Ferguson is the result of being
told for years that victimhood is a permanent state of being; rather than a
temporary state of mind.
It is a tactic that the left has imposed on minority
groups for half a century. To the American left, African Americans are in a
perpetual position of subjugation. After all, heroes are only found when they
are perceived to be needed, right? Without a class of victims to champion,
Sharpton/ Holder & Company would be exposed as the quixotic hustlers they
truly are. These hollow heroes of the modern “Civil Rights” movement are,
essentially, portraying themselves as the emancipators from a truly fictitious
reality.
After more than a century of civil liberty battles and
triumphs, African Americans have flocked to the Party that opposed every
measurable Civil Rights initiative since the Emancipation Proclamation. It
should stun historians that the party of the Ku Klux Klan and segregation now
has an undeniable stranglehold on black America.
Today’s Party of Barack Obama and Eric Holder, willfully
ignore FDR’s history of opposing anti-lynching laws. They ignore John F
Kennedy’s vote, as a Senator, against the 1950’s era Civil Rights laws. They
even ignore the egregious violence and lawlessness that plague some of
America’s most Democrat cities. (Such as Detroit, Chicago, Washington DC and
Los Angeles.)
In a raging display that resembles the clinical
definition of “denial”, the American left claims that Republicans have
abandoned their civil-rights-minded past. They assert that the right wing of
America is nothing more than racist, backward thinking rednecks who “cling to
their guns, religion, and an antipathy toward people not like them.” But
nothing could be further from the truth.
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live
in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character.”
And yet we live instead in a nation where the
liberally-inclined media uses the term “white-police-officer” in their racially
sensationalized news coverage of Ferguson. We also live in a nation where
dozens of black children are shot every week in the war zone of Chicago without
so much as a whisper on the nightly national news, or from the first black (and
half white) President in American history.
Most of America has a dream as well. It is the same Dream
that King articulated so emotionally 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial. And the progressive brand of Obama’s Democrat Party has spent the
last fifty years suffocating this dream under empty promises and government
programs. Just like the plantation owners of the pre-war south, the Modern
Democrat Party promises black America a roof, food, and protection from the
risks of freedom. And the brave few who dare to champion the forgotten
cause of individualism are ridiculed among the Left; called traitors to their
race; and are said to not know their proper place – as voters in the Democrat
plantation.
This suffocation of empowerment has been perpetuated by
leftist “heroes” who have sold the idea of permanent victimhood to minorities
in America. The progressive message has infected the African American community
with a sense of hopelessness and despair, not hope and empowerment. And what
we’re seeing in Ferguson is the exact thing that can be expected from people
who have no faith in the dream of American equality.
The Left’s message that African Americans are incapable,
hopeless, and persecuted – without a heavy-handed government of benevolent
masters – is more than tragic… As we see in Ferguson, it’s also dangerous.
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