Posted by
NYMike on Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:00:00 AM
A recent op-ed in the New York Times by Charles M. Blow (24 Jan 2009) lamented an observation by Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina stating that now that Barack Obama was president, "Every child has lost every excuse." This Mr. Clyburn stated at an awards dinner sponsored by BET. Side barred with the opinion were several statistics on the state of black children in America and the seemingly doomed existence into which they are born.
And while Mr. Blow seems to recite the tired mantra "we can overcome" in his analysis by claiming that Obama is no panacea to these seemingly startling statistics, he finishes with the opinion that "black people need to keep their feet on the ground even as their heads are in the clouds."
For 50+ years Democrats and the Left have promoted theories of big government and the nanny state - The New Deal, The Great Society, and finally The Ownership Society - that has led to the current financial crisis. These delusions of grandeur are promoted by the left and those delusions have sold not just the black population and the black family a bill of goods and a dependence on government like a ball and chain or forty acres and mule around the neck but have affected the poor whites of the Appalachians and impoverished people everywhere in this country.
Does not the fact that these statistics are still ominously facing the affected populations indicate a failure of the social policies put forth by Democrats and the Left these 50+ years? With Obama's election we of course can no longer be considered a racist country. So why is it that these statistics hold true nationally but hold even more true and ominous in the top 10 or 20 urban population centers in the country, and primarily Democratically held or controlled centers of the country. Have not these cities been generally governed by Democratic leaders and subjected to these same failed policies over and over for decades, and yet, Democrats continue to be elected to lead these districts, regions, and states by the very populace to which the greatest harm has come by the existence of these failed policies?
Likewise the election of our current president in a populist uprising of ignorance, who is managing by crisis, creating an overreaching atmosphere of doom - and succeeding - yet settling for the implementation of his solutions in 18 months or further just in time for congressional elections and his re-election mode, while the market forces that made this country great finally begin to settle and adjust in spite of itself and the interference of the government.