Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "BLM and Antifa Harm The Very Poor They Pretend To Help | Thomas Sowell" video.

  1. I grew up in one of those neighborhoods in Detroit that went to hell in a handbasket after the 67 riots. The riots were just the opening shot. Bussing ran most of the white people out of our neighborhood. There were only a couple high-schools left at that time that weren't predominantly black but the communists and their fellow travelers running things determined bussing needed to happen anyway because it was happening everywhere else in the country. For Sale signs littered the landscape. I had a paper route and I had to solicit house-house to replace my customers who were bailing out in droves. And who were these people who were fleeing? Middle-class mostly blue-collar workers. Bye bye tax base. There was a vibrant shopping district, theaters, parks, schools, police and fire stations. but as the tax base went away the parks became overgrown with weeds and the police station and firehouse went away. So did the stores when it was no longer profitable or safe to operate. Of course it was all racism. It had nothing to do with the rise in crime and the deterioration of the area. Race pimps make a career off keeping the trouble alive. Clowns like jesse jackson and al sharpton run around calling everything another Selma and pin the blame on whitey and his Jew buddies. It's a lot easier to point the finger out than it is to point it in. Unless and until the real systemic racist attitudes that prevail within the black community are dealt with black people will continue to lag behind in every meaningful metric. I'm not saying white folks are clean in all of this, white culture is falling apart just as fast but the race problem could be an easy fix if people wanted it to become a reality. But that requires a change of the heart and a full-stop to marxist notions that racial discrimination is a social construct based on power and that only the people in power can hold racist views. The twisted cognitive dissonant language and reasoning of the left needs to be challenged, now more than ever, but there is no opposition. There is reality-tv masquerading as politics and demagogy being passed off as commentary. Principles are exchanged for clicks and book sales. The right wants to own the libs, the left wants to own the country. That is a fact, and as John Adams said: "Facts are stubborn things." There is no subjective truth. Speak your truth is a demonic slogan. There is that which is true and that which is not. But we do like our comforting lies, yes indeed we do.
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