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| In The Vicious Fight Between The Dueling Canines - The "White Conservative Wolf" and the "White Progressive Cheshire Fox" Always Seem To USE "The Black" As The Willing Political Football |
Watch Party down: Voting and power in South Carolina on PBS. See more from Need to Know.
As a Northern transplant who has returned to the roots where my parents were born few things are more frustrating than the caricature of the South that Northern White Progressive media operatives like to paint. They are not able to get past the fact that the net shift of Black people is away from the "Mission Accomplished" centers of power that they highlight as "highly evolved" down to the South. If Black people exited to the North as a means of seeking out opportunity and evading negative attributes - WHY don't we hear these same progressive fundamentalists appraising the North as a repellent force to the interests of Black people?
I am a resident of Georgia. I have family in South Carolina and North Carolina. I am very familiar with with the entire region. I have not seen a "Confederate Flag" in about 3 weeks yet these external bigots can't resist running with this caricature. Despite seeing a "Ninja Who Got Himself Kilt" in Metro Atlanta on a daily basis "the Klan element" no longer is in the top 10 list of police profiles of the killer. Sadly the people who kill Black people as my people focus on this type of chum that the White Progressive Cheshire Fox is feeding us is a key reason why we are distracted in properly governing our own communities.
With the opening scene of the "Confederate Flag" at the state capital and then the cut over to Jeff Greenfield it was clear that Mr Greenfield had planned to take over where Bill Moyers had left off in his string of political and social commentary shows on PBS.
Since the core of the argument about South Carolina is that "Black people are being marginalized as White folks converge into the Republican Party - all due to racism - the logical challenge to vet this claim is to look at a Northern state with a Black population about the size of SC and determine "how their Negroes are faring".
You need to understand what this is.
Their goal is to abstract the "Black Condition" as much as possible from the present prevailing thoughts and actions WITHIN and instead focus on the METHODOLOGY and VEHICLE that is presently "oppressing" Black people and how "diversity and tolerance" (read - more acceptance of progressivism would lead to a fix). The methodology is "Progressivism vs Conservatism" and the vehicle is "Democratic Party vs Republican". I reject this framework as I see that the choice for the development for the Black Community is the adoption of the proper balance between the "American Political Domain" and the "Community Cultural Consciousness & Competency Development Domain". If their argument was true we'd see the Black condition in monopoly Democratic strong holds such as Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Philly substantively improved over where "The Tea Party rules". It is NOT the case.
It is clear that when we focus on the DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE - via transparent measure and not just WHAT BLACK PEOPLE PREFER - some close friends - with long canines and incisors that protrude are not such "development partners" after all. Yes there is a difference between the Theories and Policies that Black people in our present consciousness believe will improve our condition and the set of policies that ACTUALLY provide a fix. Once we add the qualifiers of:
- Achievement by Organic means through our community instituions
- Enduring Solutions
- Comprehensive
................then the argument is even more exact.
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Pennsylvania
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| Black Population | Blacks
1,290,684
Total Population - 4,672,000 Percentage - 28.48% |
Blacks - 1,377,689 Total Population - 12,742,000 Percentage - 10.79% |
| Black State Legislators | 36 of 110 (All Democrat) |
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| Poverty | Understanding The High Young Child Poverty Rates In The South |
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Pittsburgh region has the highest rate of poverty among working-age African-Americans of any of the 40 largest metropolitan regions in the country. More than one-quarter (28 percent) of the region's African-Americans ages 18 to 64 lived in poverty in 2008. That's twice as high as in regions such as Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C.
If you think that African-American poverty is just a city of Pittsburgh problem, you're wrong. Fewer than half (46 percent) of the poor African-Americans in the region live in the city; 37 percent of them live in the rest of Allegheny County, and 17 percent live in other counties in the region. In fact, the highest rate of poverty among African-Americans in the region isn't in the city of Pittsburgh -- it's in Lawrence County, where almost half (49 percent) of the African-American residents are poor.
Even more shocking is that the Pittsburgh region is No. 1 in the country in the rate of poverty among African-American children under age 5. Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of these youngsters lived in poverty here in 2008, more than double the percentage in regions as diverse as Atlanta and Boston, and quadruple the poverty rate for white children under age 5 in the Pittsburgh region (14.6 percent).
A key reason that so many African-American children here are poor is that more than 80 percent of African-American women who have babies are unmarried (compared to 26 percent of white mothers). This is the highest rate among any of the 40 largest metro regions.
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Seriously people - when you see your cause manipulated like this do you feel USED?
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