The Democrats’ dependence on blacks for votes means that they must keep blacks dependent on them….Black self-reliance would be almost as bad as blacks becoming Republicans, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned. All black progress in the past must be depicted as the result of liberal government programs and all hope of future progress must be depicted as dependent on the same liberalism. – Thomas Sowell
Liberals’ apparent antipathy for black self-reliance makes me very angry. It’s why I was fired up against John Kerry during his failed presidential campaign whenever he’d speak to black crowds about government programs (See John Kerry’s Racist Rhetoric). It’s why my blood boils whenever I hear white liberals advocate one government-dependent plan after another for black people.
Then again, maybe I’m too prideful. I break out in hives when I’m around people who talk about government as though it were a savior.
From where I’m sitting, liberalism is an ideology without hope, pride or expectation of excellence. My position is by no means lofty. I’m out here trying to make a living just like everyone else. I’m not rich and privileged, nor do I receive special favors from powerful and influential people. I’m someone who’s had an awakening, going from politically apathetic Democrat voter to Bible-believing Christian and advocate of the conservative cause. My pride, good or bad, will not allow me embrace the kind of thinking one needs to vote for liberals. Sowell sums it up:
What blacks have achieved for themselves, without the help of liberals, is of no interest to liberals. Nothing illustrates this better than political reactions to academically successful black schools….Achievement is not what liberalism is about. Victimhood and dependency are.Black educational achievements are a special inconvenience for liberals because those achievements have usually been a result of methods and practices that go directly counter to prevailing theories in liberal educational circles and are anathema to the teachers’ unions that are key supporters of the Democratic Party.
Many things that would advance blacks would not advance the liberal agenda. That is why the time is long overdue for the two to come to a parting of the ways.
Related posts: The entire “BC Wisdom” category.
