The long struggle through slavery and segregation is over, and, quite bluntly, more economic and political progress was rightly to be expected for America’s blacks following the civil rights legislation and court decisions of the 1960’s. Indeed, since 1972, blacks have experienced unemployment at roughly twice the rate of whites.
Many of those who blame continued racism for the poor results are themselves responsible. Rather than taking the politically appropriate and clever approach of continuously playing off the Democrat and Republican parties to gain goals, the black establishment sold itself in virtual lock step to the Democrats. It was an odd fit that never produced the necessary results. Those with a sense of history can rightly express confusion at the alliance of black leaders with the party that supported slavery and segregation.
Republican connection with the black community extended beyond those twin evils. As noted in a Guardian review, “With Republicans having trouble with minorities, some like to point out that the party has a long history of standing up for civil rights compared to Democrats. Democrats, for example, were less likely to vote for the civil rights bills of the 1950s and 1960s. Democrats were more likely to filibuster.”
There is more to Republicans and civil rights as well. Rather forgotten is the fact that 57 years ago this month, Republican president Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Democrat social welfare policies do not envision blacks as equals, with the same capability to advance economically and politically as all other ethnic groups. Rather than embrace policies that provided more opportunities, the Democrat leadership opted instead for social welfare programs that provided no path to economic equality but did buy votes from those at the bottom of the economic ladder who saw no other way to increase their standard of living. That strategy remains a hallmark of the Obama Administration.
Those policies, and the federal budgetary and economic spinoffs they produced, hold significant responsibility for the roadblocks blacks have faced in moving into the economic mainstream (after segregation was ended) in the same manner that other ethnics groups have.
Some prominent Democrats understood the folly of this approach. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about the devastating effect on the black family that these policies produced.
The mainstream media, which has generally tilted towards the left, has opted to give the mantle of “black leaders” only to those public figures who give their support to the Democrat Party. Accomplished figures in government and politics such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Alan West, and others, who are Republicans, are largely overlooked as “black leaders,” while ignoble figured such as Al Sharpton get abundant airtime.
The counterproductive nature and, some would say, hypocrisy of adopting social welfare policies in combination with die hard loyalty to the Democrat leadership can be seen, oddly enough, in the antagonistic relations between the radical group Black Lives Matter and the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Sanders’s positions represent the ultimate of what the black leadership—at least, the portion of it that gets publicity and wields political power—wants. He says the correct things, according to their left-wing viewpoint, and rarely misses an opportunity to blame racism or capitalism for their complaints. He is the most stringent advocate for the “progressive” policies that guide them.
The assault on what would appear to be their ideological ally highlights unfortunate personal opportunism on the part of some black leaders. Sanders is outside of the mainstream of Democrat leadership, and is therefore open to attack.
Barack Obama, as the first president from the black community, shares the hard-left ideology that characterizes his party. His policies have harmed, according to financial planner and radio personality Charles Butler (A black American) the black community more than any other group. Butler particularly points to the President’s immigration policies, which has added to the unemployment woes of the black community, particularly those of young people in inner cities.
The harm from progressive policies is also seen in education. Policy.Mic notes:
“In the 2012 election, minorities turned out in droves to vote for progressive Democrats. But have progressive policies really served to benefit minorities? In the field of education, the answer is a resounding no. Progressives have long opposed school choice. In 2009, Obama and other Democrats killed a program which gave low-income Washington, D.C. students money for private-school tuition, leaving only existing scholarship recipients to continue. Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan actually rescinded 216 scholarships. Imagine how those parents and students felt when they received word from the Department of Education.
“In 2011, Republicans in Congress introduced a bill re-authorizing the program. The White House opposed the bill because it expanded private-school voucher programs. They argued that the ‘private school vouchers were not an effective way to improve student achievement.’
“It seems the Obama administration didn’t bother to read its own Education Department’s study which found ‘a positive and statistically significant impact on the average reading test scores of the students in the study,’ while performing on par with public-school students in math. The voucher students graduated at a rate of 91%, more than 20 points higher than those who sought a voucher but either didn’t get one or didn’t enroll in the program after being accepted.” The White House was eventually pressured to relent.
According to Deneen Borelli (who is black) writing in the Washington Times “Objective analysis would conclude that President Obama’s progressive policies have failed blacks, leaving them frustrated and vulnerable to the social agitation by Mr. Sharpton. The sad truth is Mr. Obama’s agenda includes policies that preferentially harm blacks.”