Black Leader Dares To Ask, If All Whites Left The Country, How Would It Really Affect The Black Community?
V. Saxena
May 15, 2015
Robert Woodson, a nationally recognized community development leader, posed an amazing question on CSPAN this Tuesday.
“If all whites tomorrow were to move to Canada and Europe, tell me how it would affect the black on black crime rate, how would it it affect the out-of-wedlock births, how would it affect the spread of AIDS?” he asked.
He added, “What I’m saying to Black America [is that] we must stop victimization. We must stop complaining about what white folks have done to us in the past. We must go into ourselves, as Dr. King said, and find indelible ink — our own emancipation proclamation.”
His point — and it was an amazing one — was that much more can be accomplished when people “are motivated by solutions” and “entrepreneurial energy” versus when people are “complaining about what others have done.”
This attitude places him in stark contrast to leaders like Reverend Al Sharpton, who believe the solution itself is to bitch and moan incessantly about institutional racism, which Woodson himself accurately referred to as “a good excuse for failure.”
Woodson also slammed the government’s litany of failed anti-poverty programs, which he alleged only help in “maintaining poverty.”
What we need, argued Woodson, is an innovative approach — like Rep. Paul Ryan’s anti-poverty plan, which would convert all the federal government’s bloated welfare programs into 50 “opportunity grants” that would then be managed by the individual states.
Unfortunately, the Democrats, who benefit the most from keeping Americans in poverty, refuse to even consider Ryan’s plan.
Likewise, the many racial grievance mongers among us refuse to even consider that promoting personal responsibility and entrepreneurship makes a whole lot more sense than telling the poor that white people are responsible for all their problems …
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