Who's To Blame

Watching the scenes of destruction from the Haitian earthquake has left me, like everyone else, deeply saddened at the loss of life and intense suffering of an already destitute Haitian population.  I'm sure you would be hard pressed to find a poorer country than Haiti.

The outpouring of aid from around the world has been staggering.  The United States, of course in the forefront of that assistance, has sent untold millions of dollars in food, water and temporary shelter in addition to military troops to help maintain order.  The aid sent by the US government does not include the millions of dollars donated by hard-working Americans.  Even those having a hard time financially have not shirked from their Christian responsibility. Facts bear out that Americans are the most generous on earth.

So it really ticked me off to see a CNN video showing a Haitian minister preaching to his flock that it was the "white man's fault" that Haiti wasn't recovering quickly enough from this natural disaster.  For those of you ignorant of the country's demographics, I'm compelled to point out the obvious:  Haiti is not a country governed by white people.  It is a country of blacks; governed by blacks and controlled by blacks.  So which white people are to blame for the disastrous economy; the failing infrastructure that contributed to the deaths of more than 150,000 Haitians or the inability of the Haitian government to cope with this horrendous disaster?  Because the only white people involved here are the ones coming to the aid of Haiti.  That would be you and me.

I, for one, have suffered through decades of being called a racist because I don't think people, white, black, or otherwise, should be given free food, free housing, free utilities, a free cell phone, a free car or a monthly check for sitting on their duff doing nothing.  News flash:  I'm not responsible for your upkeep just because you happened to be born.  That's not my fault.

I hear people talk about the black culture all the time and how the white man is destroying it.  Well, I have news for you, rap music and basketball are not part of black culture; wearing your baseball hat backwards and your oversize pants halfway down your rear end are not part of black culture; living in government-subsidized housing riddled with crime is not black culture. Calling each other  "nigger" is not black culture.  Doing poorly in school is not black culture.  Calling your woman a "ho" is not black culture.  Using crack cocaine is not part of black culture.  And letting Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson pimp your vote to politicians who keep you mired in mediocrity is not black culture. 

Black culture is none of these things.  It's hard work, and family.  It's responsibility, and charity.  It's a belief in the traditional values that made this nation great.  Black culture is not different than white culture.  In the end, it's just an American culture.  Even though the government has perverted our ideals, we all grew up in the same country, believing in the same values, the same laws and the same way of life.  We all want the same things.  A great American, Martin Luther King, understood it better than anyone.  He didn't want special treatment for blacks.  He wanted equal treatment, but we've gone beyond that and in doing so have destroyed the black communities that once thrived in America.  Black Americans have been so instrumental to the success of this experiment we call America.  Without the contributions of black Americans, we would be a poorer nation.  And I'm not just measuring dollars and cents.

Since Roe v Wade we have aborted millions of black children.  Supporters of abortion rights, traditionally liberals, are the same ones calling conservatives racist for not agreeing with their political icons; never seeing their own hypocrisy for their support of killing black babies and the destruction of the black family structure.

Black children continue to be forced to attend failing public schools.  Our inner city schools are crowded and although the amount of money spent on public education escalates each year, the quality of that education continues to decline.  Black children, particularly males, are dropping out of school in record numbers.  They're doomed to a life of failure, or worse yet:  prison.  And it's the ever-compassionate liberals who see the solution is to force blacks to stay in the same failing schools, but of course, to send more money to the failing schools.  All of which hasn't done a darned thing except create a population of idiots.  It seems to me that is exactly what our politicians want.  If you're too stupid to understand what they are doing, then you will just continue to vote for them.  It makes their job so much easier--and profitable.

Have you ever heard a liberal vote for the one program that would drastically change the future for those black children?  In case you don't know what that is, have you ever heard of school vouchers?  Unless you've paid attention, probably not.  The media ignores the problems of education, unless of course they want to report on some callous conservative who refuses to inject more taxpayer dollars into a failing and corrupt educational system that concerns itself with the interests of educators rather than students. 

A school voucher system is the one thing that will save our public school system and our children, no matter their color.  It will make schools accountable by increasing competition.  The same competition that creates new and improved manufactured goods at cheaper prices will create a new, improved and cheaper educational system.  But more importantly, it puts our children's future back in the hands of parents and takes it away from bureaucrats.  It's a shift of power.

That's something politicians fear.  And a government that fears you is a government that cannot abuse its power.

So keep voting for those liberals who espouse Martin Luther King's dream, yet use claims of racism to further their own agenda at every opportunity; keep voting for the handouts and freebies that every liberal believes it's your right to have; keep voting for the failing schools; the black-on-black crime-ridden neighborhoods; the drug-infested communities; the aborted babies; the ever-increasing number of young black men in prison.  Keep voting yourselves and your children into perpetual serfdom.   That's just the way the libs want it. 

And you thought slavery was dead?  Not hardly.  You've just traded one slave master for another.  Only this slave master doesn't sit on a plantation in South Carolina.  He sits in Washington, D.C.

Who's to blame?  Look in the mirror.  That's not whitey you see.