Black History Month Is Over…And

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Townhall
Allen West
Feb. 28, 2017

At the beginning of the month, I wrote a missive entitled “It’s Black History Month…and” for Townhall. The purpose was to set the stage to see what vital policies affecting the black community would be addressed in this focus month. And so I will revisit the issue since Black History Month, 2017, is over.

I am quite sure there will be much to say about Viola Davis winning an Oscar for her screen performance, but what recognition or reward do struggling black Mothers get? And I am not talking about a welfare check and section eight housing. Consider the recognition that the movie “Hidden Figures” received at the Academy Awards, and all the rave reviews. I cannot tell you how many people said it was a “must see” movie. However, ask yourself, with today’s public education system in our inner cities, to which young black kids are relegated, could those characters be replicated today?

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This is what you write when you seek real change.

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Blacks got 50% of the top four acting awards, marking the end of the Obama era, of affirmative action awareness.

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   I do love this guy, in a metaphorically way, of course.

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This is what you write when you seek real change.

   

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Townhall
Allen West
Feb. 28, 2017

. . . Consider the recognition that the movie “Hidden Figures” received at the Academy Awards, and all the rave reviews. I cannot tell you how many people said it was a “must see” movie. However, ask yourself, with today’s public education system in our inner cities, to which young black kids are relegated, could those characters be replicated today?

Notwithstanding the unique (and troubling) circumstances under which those three women did what they did
to achieve what they did, West asks an excellent and almost equally troubling question. To which the answer
isn't in today's public schools, which would probably do those three women (if they were beginning their
educations today) far more harm than good.

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Notwithstanding the unique (and troubling) circumstances under which those three women did what they did
to achieve what they did, West asks an excellent and almost equally troubling question. To which the answer
isn't in today's public schools, which would probably do those three women (if they were beginning their
educations today) far more harm than good.

Probably so.

Despite the problems of the past, black Americans were often entrepreneurial and studious. Lifting themselves by their own bootstraps and reaping the personal pride that comes with doing so. Government largess robs people of that personal pride, that sense of achievement.   

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Government largess robs people of that personal pride, that sense of achievement.

All people, alas.

And too many of them don't see it.