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The True Black Tragedy: Illegitimacy Rate of Nearly 75%

Hustlers and people with little understanding want us to believe that today’s black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. The fact is that most of the social pathology seen in poor black neighborhoods is entirely new in black history. Let’s look at some of it.

Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families. As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were two-parent. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black families were two-parent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father.

Today’s black illegitimacy rate of nearly 75 percent is also entirely new. In 1940, black illegitimacy stood at 14 percent. It had risen to 25 percent by 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action” and was widely condemned as a racist. By 1980, the black illegitimacy rate had more than doubled, to 56 percent, and it has been growing since. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.

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FOURTH TURNING – SOCIAL & CULTURAL DISTRESS DIVIDING THE NATION

I wrote the first three parts of this article back in September and planned to finish it in early October, but life intervened and truthfully I don’t think I was ready to confront how bad things will likely get as this Fourth Turning moves into the violent, chaotic war stage just over the horizon. The developments in the Middle East, Europe, U.S., China and across the globe in the last months have confirmed my belief war drums are beating louder, global war beckons, and much bloodshed will be the result. Fourth Turnings proceed at their own pace within the 20 to 25 year crisis framework, but there is one guarantee – they never de-intensify as they progress. Just as Winter gets colder, stormier and more bitter as you proceed from December through February, Fourth Turnings get nastier, grimmer, more perilous, with our way of life hanging in the balance.

In Part 1 of this article I discussed the catalyst spark which ignited this Fourth Turning and the seemingly delayed regeneracy. In Part 2 I pondered possible Grey Champion prophet generation leaders who could arise during the regeneracy. In Part 3 I focused on the economic channel of distress which is likely to be the primary driving force in the next phase of this Crisis. In Part 4 I will assess the social and cultural channels of distress dividing the nation, Part 5 the technological, ecological, political, military channels of distress likely to burst forth with the molten ingredients of this Fourth Turning, and finally in Part 6 our rendezvous with destiny, with potential climaxes to this Winter of our discontent.

The road ahead will be distressful for everyone living in the U.S., as we experience the horrors of war, economic collapse, civil chaos, political upheaval, and the tearing of society’s social fabric. The pain and suffering being experienced across the globe today will not bypass the people of the United States. Winter has arrived and lethal storms are gathering in the distance. Don’t think you can escape. You can prepare, but this Crisis will reshape our society for better or worse, and you cannot sidestep the consequences or cruel environment we must survive.

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HOW THEY CELEBRATE 4TH OF JULY IN THE GUN FREE ZONE OF CHICAGO

It sure is lucky Rahm Emmanuel’s liberal paradise of Chicago has the toughest gun laws in Illinois. Imagine how many people would have been shot if they weren’t so tough. I didn’t see anything about these Chicago festivities on the national MSM news stations. I guess 9 dead black people only matters if they are killed by a white boy. Black lives matter whenever it is convenient for the race baiters like Obama, Sharpton, and Jackson to make it matter. The liberal MSM eats up the racism angle whenever a white person is involved. Of course, 93% of all black shootings were committed by other blacks. That statistic never makes the news. It doesn’t support the storyline.

Is there a flag we can start banning due to the slaughter of black people by other black people in Chicago?

I just know this horrific slaughter of black people by black people will lead to an open dialogue of how white people are to blame. I think stronger gun laws will surely stop criminals from killing people without guns. Maybe if we give the Chicago teacher’s union another $100 million they can teach black kids not to shoot each other.

9 dead, 47 injured in Fourth of July weekend shootings

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Police investigate bloody clothes near Chicago and Milwaukee avenues, were a man was shot early Sunday, July 5, 2015. | Ashlee Rezin/for Sun-Times Media

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Fourth of July weekend shootings have left nine people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 47 others injured since Thursday evening.

Seven-year-old Amari Brown was killed in a shooting that also left a 26-year-old woman wounded late Saturday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

Amari, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police said Sunday the bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father. Both Amari and the 26-year-old woman were shot at 11:55 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Harding, police said.

The boy’s father, Antonio Brown, is a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests and was not cooperating with police as of Sunday afternoon as they tried to find his son’s killer, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Sunday.

“It’s crazy. Like who would shoot a 7-year-old? He got shot in the chest. Who would do that? To a baby?” Amari’s grandmother, 52-year-old Vida Hailey asked as she waited for news outside Stroger. “All the kids that are getting killed out here – it’s crazy. When is it going to stop?”

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Racism Is More A Product Than A Problem

Guest post by Monty Pelerin

Racism still exists in this country. But it does so on a remarkably small level compared to both history and other countries around the world.

Racism Compared

Despite all the commotion, just how racist is the US? Facts suggest that it is among the least racist countries in the world. Jamie Weinstein provides this perspective:

America Is Among Least Racist Countries In The World

With all the recent race clang clanging on MSNBC and other cable news networks, now’s probably a good time to remind everyone that America is among the least racist countries in the world.

I know this statement will be shocking news to regular viewers of “PoliticsNation,” but it also has the quality of being true.

From 2010 to 2014, the World Values Survey asked residents in over 50 countries who they would not want as neighbors. Just over 5 percent of respondents in the United States said “people of a difference race.” That’s far more tolerant a response than citizens of most European, African and Asian countries gave. As a comparison, 15 percent of Germans, 41 percent of Indians and 22 percent of Japanese said they wouldn’t want to live next to “people of a different race.” The Washington Post depicted the results in a useful chart.

The survey is probably not a perfect indicator of how pervasive racism is in a given society, but the results do correlate with what we know anecdotally. Take, for instance, the fact that America elected and then reelected a black man for president.

Yes, I know. Some in the civil rights industry like to argue that this doesn’t mean anything. But of course it does. Blacks make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population. There aren’t too many examples of a democratic country electing someone from such a distinct and previously persecuted minority to their top office.

It is totally impossible, for instance, to imagine a person of color being elected to lead any major country in Europe, at least anytime in the near future. Same with Canada. Same with a racial or religious minority anywhere in Asia or Africa. Perhaps there are examples of leaders from minority groups being elected in free and open elections to the top office of the land in a few countries, but none come immediately to mind. Even the white interim president of Zambia doesn’t exactly qualify because he wasn’t elected to the post. The point is, if it is not unprecedented, it is pretty rare. It means something that the United States elected an African-American president.

The United States is also a country where seven of the eight most powerful celebrities, according to Forbes, are African American. That’s an amazing statistic — one also not indicative of a virulently racist society. Ayatollah Khamenei may attack America on Twitter as a racist country over the recent events in Ferguson, but I can assure you the most powerful celebrities in Iran aren’t Jewish.

If the best examples Al Sharpton can draw upon to prove America is a place where black people are routinely killed by cops without punishment are the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, then it just shows you how weak his narrative is.

We don’t have cameras to know exactly went on in Ferguson, but the preponderance of evidence suggests that Officer Darren Wilson didn’t randomly shoot and kill Michael Brown for kicks and giggles. The Garner case appears far more problematic in terms of how the police acted, but even Garner’s family doesn’t think what happened had a racial component.

Cops sometimes overreact and there are probably too many police shooting deaths in the United States, but the Brown and Garner cases hardly demonstrate that racist cops are regularly and deliberately killing African-Americans with impunity.

None of this is to say that there is no racism in America anymore or that terribly racist events never occur here. There is and they sometimes do. We need and can do better as a country, but we also ought put things in perspective. We have come a long way since the 1950s. Far from being a bastion of racism, America today is in fact one of the least racist countries in the world.

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Why Racism Is Important

Mr. Weinstein’s perspective is one that most Americans believe and should believe. Sadly, there are elements in this country who thrive and even survive on racism. It is not the practice of racism that benefits these people. It is convincing others that racism exists that is their scheme.

Racism is a product for these people. It is sold like other products and with similar rewards. Big dollars and votes are the rewards. The beneficiaries of these rewards are the race hustlers and the politicians. Bruce Thornton explains:

Since the rise of identity politics and anti-poverty programs in the 60s, the plight of the black underclass has worsened, even as the self-selected race tribunes––professors, “activists,” lobbyists, government employees, celebrities, politicians––have flourished. Given that the moral capital financing the race industry comes from the misery and suffering of underclass blacks, race-grievance entrepreneurs must ward off solutions to those problems that challenge the narrative justifying their own power.

Some race hustlers have dedicated their entire lives to the promotion of racism. For them, it is an occupation not unlike ambulance chasing. Keeping racism alive keeps them in the spotlight. It provides fame and fortune for these pimps that exceeds what they could obtain pimping street wares.

The Democrat Party sells racism as a product. This Party has no discernible governing strategy. It only has an election strategy and that is based on the notion of oppression. They identify and classify voters by group and then claim specific oppression of one sort or the other. Other than government workers, every Democrat constituency is told they are oppressed. Blacks, for whatever reasons, have fallen for the fake compassion more than any other group based on the 95% or so who vote Democrat. The pretense of racism is necessary in order to keep blacks on the Democrat Plantation. If the Democrats lost even a small share of this vote, their viability as a meaningful national party would be threatened.

Democrats are now targeting Hispanics as the next oppressed group. Democrats pretend to be for amnesty regardless of the law in order to create and mine this new potential voting constituency. Republicans are painted as hating Hispanics just like they are supposed to hate blacks, women, welfare recipients, LGBTs, etc. etc. Any constituent of the Democrat Party is claimed to be a hate target of the Republican Party.

The Tragedy of Claiming Racism

False claims of racism are tragic. They make minorities believe that their fate in life has been pre-determined. Racism means they have no control over their future. If success is based on color or some other attribute, study and work to achieve success becomes meaningless. Because your ability doesn’t count, why bother to try? How many young people have been brainwashed into believing this nonsense? How many valuable lives were not fulfilled as a result? Conveying this poison is equivalent to a form of child molestation!

Continuing to perpetuate the myths of racism is dangerous to society. Pitting groups against each other substitutes anger and force for voluntary interactions and transactions. Social friction helps no one. When people see themselves as anything but Americans, society becomes coarser and less safe. Encouraging or condoning riots in places like Ferguson sets the stage for something much bigger. If society unravels, the minorities will come out on the short end. That has been the history of minority-majority conflicts throughout history. Don’t pick a fight where you are obviously outnumbered. Don’t pick a fight or be drawn into one that you cannot possibly win.

Unfortunately the race pimps and politicians who benefit from racial strife are not going to quit so long as they personally benefit. Nor do these low-life leeches care about the costs to the country. Their personal advantage is all that matters. If other Americans have to be sacrificed to advance their pursuits, so be it. Eggs need to be broken in order to make an omelet.

WHITE WOMAN DRAGGED FROM HER CAR & BEATEN UNCONCIOUS BY THREE BLACK THUGS IN ST. LOUIS

Have you seen this latest hate crime on the liberal mainstream media stations? Obama press conference? Al Sharpton flying to the scene of the crime? Jesse? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?

It doesn’t fit into the storyline of poor blacks being subjugated by the white man. Therefore, the story will be suppressed by the mainstream media and ignored by the race baiters in the media and in Congress.

I think it’s time for the Bosnians to start defending themselves.

Attack on Bosnian woman near Bevo Mill is called a hate crime

December 06, 2014 6:45 am • By Doug Moore [email protected] 314-340-8125

St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has called in the FBI to help investigate what he is calling a hate crime because a woman assaulted by three black teens is Bosnian.

The Friday morning attack occurred in the Bevo Mill neighborhood where earlier this week a Bosnian man was killed with a hammer by a group of teens.

In Friday’s case, the woman, 26, told police that she was driving in the 4600 block of Lansdowne Avenue about 5:25 a.m. when three men in their late teens to early 20s walked in front of her vehicle.

When the woman attempted to drive around the young men, at least one of them pulled a gun and ordered her to stop. One of the men struck the windshield with an object police said could have been a crowbar. The woman was pulled from the vehicle while another of the men opened the passenger door and went through the woman’s purse, saying it was empty. One of the men threw her cellphone to the ground and stomped on it.

One of the men asked where the woman was from. She said she was European.

“You’re a (expletive) liar. You’re Bosnian. I should just kill you now,” Dotson said of the woman’s account.

Based on that comment, he said, police are labeling the assault as a hate crime.

The woman was pushed to the ground and kicked before the attackers fled. A passer-by told police the woman was found unconscious. She declined to be taken to a hospital for treatment, saying she would go later.

Dotson said designating the attack as a hate crime could lead to additional charges and prison time. Suspect descriptions are scant and he is urging the community to help identify the men.

The incident occurred five days after Zemir Begic, a 32-year-old Bosnian man, was killed in the 4200 block of Itaska Street. About 1:15 a.m. Sunday, he was walking to his car with his fiancée and two others when four teens confronted the group. At least one of them struck Begic with a hammer. He suffered injuries to his face, head and abdomen. Police said they have no evidence to believe Begic was targeted because of his race, although some in the community have doubts.

Robert Joseph Mitchell, 17, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Two other suspects, 15 and 16, are in custody. Another suspect remained at large Friday. At least two of the teens are black, and one is Hispanic.

On Friday, 19 organizations, many that work directly with Bosnians and other refugees, released a statement, urging police to strengthen their presence in all parts of the city including the Bevo Mill neighborhood. Dotson said he is increasing foot patrols and the presence of unmarked vehicles in Bevo Mill.

“Bosnians know the consequences of division and violence as well as anyone in our community,” the statement reads. “Let us build upon that experience as we repair our broken hearts and divided city.”