Let’s deal with the issue bluntly; this issue is also about race. The fact that blacks and hispanics vote overwhelmingly for Democrats is tragically curious. Democrats starting with FDR’s big government programs, LBJ’s ‘Great Society’, and the rest have in essence put blacks and now hispanics in the same boat as Am. Indians. In essence, they’ve all been put on the ‘reservation’- Allowed to wallow on the government dole in poverty, illiteracy, violence, secularism, and illegitimacy whilst segregated from the bulk of the successful society-educated middle class whites/asians/immigrants/et al. with few incentives to fully join and integrate into the more prosperous middle class either.

It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. The Democrats are promoting ‘race politics’, allowing blacks & hispanics to play up ethnocentrism, not to mention class warfare. The ‘pious’ and self-righteous Left wants tame and segregated minorities. They want those black and brown and red people sufficiently cleaned up, calmed down and educated to the point where they don’t pose a threat–but no further; it wants “community leaders” and apologists like Obama, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton to make cooing noises about their ancestral cultures to mollify the ‘barbarian hoards’ who threaten to run amok. It doesn’t want those black and brown and yellow people repudiating their ancestral cultures–because then they might, just might want to join OURS as unhyphenated citizens and full participants.

It’s all rather sad. Last year, Obama made a speech that one could have applied to the black community by only changing a few words…

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they’ve gone through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Really puts a finger right on the ‘reverend’ Wright’s church then, dont you think Jim? The message that is. He doesn’t preach the Word as I understand it, he preaches resentment, hatred, and pride. Perfect for the likes of Obama’s minions.

Locke n Load, I agree. Rev. Wrong places at the center of his theology(Black Liberation Theology, that is), ethnocentrism. Yet, this is what Rev. Wrong, Obama, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, et al. trade part and parcel in. As one commenter stated brilliantly;

“In this respect black liberation theology is identical in content to all the ethnocentric heresies that preceded it. Christianity has no use for the nations, a “drop of the bucket” and “”, in the words of Isaiah.(40:15) It requires that individuals turn their back on their ethnicity to be reborn into Israel in the spirit. That is much easier for Americans than for the citizens of other nations, for Americans have no ethnicity. But the tribes of the world do not want to abandon their Gentile nature and as individuals join the New Israel. Instead they demand eternal life in their own Gentile flesh, that is, to be the “Chosen People”.”

There’s been a filtering process.
The able and intelligent leave to better neighborhoods and job opportunities. The retrasados remain behind in crappy low income areas. No wonder the kids and parents are dummies. If I were a teacher, I’d give up.

The Hispanics arriving today, assuming they comprise a heterogeneous gene pool, will in a generation or two integrate and have a portion of college bound offspring.
My Mexican girlfriend has a daughter with a Master’s in business from Berkeley, and a son with a compsci degree from UT. She still votes Democrat. Maybe she isn’t so smart. (I can say this, she doesn’t read Revo.)

These people are wards of the state weakened by imposed dependency. Their anger could be a tiny spark that lights a larger fire. Or it might just be extinguished. These people can make their lives better. The government will never, ever do it for them. If they realize that basic fact, they will be on the path to a better life. If they fail to realize that reality, their lives and those of their children will fall deeper and deeper into the hell of statist dependency. They need to wake up.

After I was eight, my father wasn’t around. I was raised by a single mother and my grandmother. My mother panicked and remarried quickly. That SOB beat the shit out of me regularly until mom divorced him. We were broke but never on welfare. Mom worked her way up from never having a job to management after she and my dad split. Like notamobster, I have every excuse in the world to be a shit bird. The only thing is, in my family and my community, excuses are bullshit. It is performance that counts.

My sister looks and talks like Liz Cheney, holds a chemical engineering degree, and has two wonderful ambitionless kids. They were spared little, growing up with few wants, on a wooded acre overlooking Puget Sound. They don’t have a passion for anything, never having to struggle. They’re not bad kids, but they’re not anything, either.

My cousin fits the Revo mold: fiercely independent, entrepreneur, gun collector, a tough luck go do it yourself and stop complaining kind of guy. His son is now 16, and wants to become a mechanical engineer. When I visited two winters ago, we changed oil in their truck fleet, his son underneath doing the dirty work. My cousin appologized we were doing this on my vacation, and I told him “No, this is great.”

I was lucky to grow up with two parents. However, while the neighbor kids were playing with Tonka trucks and Legos, we were given spoons from Salvation Army and told we could dig in the dirt. We weren’t given much, but I had full access to my Dad’s tools.
I talked to that childhood friend recently, lamenting how he had all the great toys. He replied “What do you mean? You had that electric car you drove around in, that parabolic microphone listening device, your robot we answered the door with on Halloween, that $6M Man movie spoof you made, etc.
I realized that I had these wonderful things because I had to design and build them myself, or I would have nothing.
Today I am an inventor on over a dozen patents.

My kids want for nothing. They have had very comfortable childhoods with all of the advantages. I used to worry a little about that. When things come easy, you might expect them to come easy. I have seen signs of that when they are young. Still…

As you know, my son was a Ranger, paratrooper and veteran of real, hard core kill-or-be-killed combat in places like Falujah and Ar Ramadi. He is going to college full time in the GI bill, pulling down good grades, working full time and supporting his wife and daughter. He owns a rental property that he rents to a kid he went to school with. He bought it 100% on his own with no help from me.

My daughter is a senior in high school. She is an accelerated program student who is already earning college credits. She has been accepted to public and private colleges with scholarships. In fact, she has so many scholarship opportunities college won’t cost me much.

I still have a four year old son. He has a sense of entitlement like an Obama voter. But he is just four. He will grow out of it.

My folks sacrificed a lot for my older brother and I when we were growing up. My dad was a state employee for Washington (and during thoes days a democrat) and my mom worked for Boeing in the electical department. My brother and I, thankfully, never went without as my folks made a comfortable living. However, there were rules and expectations in our house. We had chores after school that were EXPECTED to be done before my folks got home from work. (my favorite chore was splitting and stacking wood on the side of our house) If they werent, there was hell to pay and usually a punishment of restriction, (being grounded) Both my brother and I hated that, so we did what was expected of us, usually with no hassle.

I grew up playing hockey, which was very expensive and consumed a lot of time from my parents. My brother had his music (he is the most talented Tenor sax player I’ve ever heard), which consumed time and was also expensive. My mom worked overtime many, many nights to ensure that my bro and I never went without. My folks taught us both a strong work ethic and responsibility. But the most important thing is that my folks GAVE A SHIT about us. I was helped with homework, got hasseled when I brought home shitty grades (which was often), lectured when I was acting like an asshole, etc. My folks held ME accountable for my actions and I believe that has made all the difference. I am forever thankfull for them.

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

—-Socrates