Get Read 4 a Post-Racial Obama, Part II

Race is a very slippery slope for both blacks and whites in our country, especially since the end of official segregation. Frankly, we are blinded by race.

Note the fetish of some very educated blacks chanting for Reparations for Slavery! You’d think that they are blind to reality or they just want to grasp onto an issue that they can forever pursue without winning.

The more practical pursuits, and potential for success, would be to sue as a class for segregation and discrimination reparations because many victims of official segregation are still alive today. Within two generations, most, if not all, victims of official segregation and discrimination (which ended in the 1960’s) will be dead and gone. Perhaps then those with the fetish to dream will “come alive” and pursue Reparations for segregation and discrimination. Again, it will be too late.

Parasitic black leadership again has failed to pursue a strategy that might result in some tangible results. Once blacks achieved full legal citizenship (ending official segregation, effective voting rights, etc.) black American leaders were as lost for what to do as a blind salamander in the Sahara. With no agenda and no concrete goals, black leadership and leadership organizations are left to beg for crumbs from the public trough, largely, and to wait for some white fool to thrust upon them an opportunity to protest, e.g., Imus….

Despite unheard of opportunities now open to blacks, the black American leadership class (which includes entertainment moguls, activists, black academics who feed the elite black youngsters in colleges and the universities and black publications) have utterly failed to develop ONE, ONE industrial entertainment and convention complex where black folks could go and spend the billion plus dollars that they spend at white owned complexes. Where does the NAACP hold its 5000 plus convention attendees every year?


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