Great article, the subject of LBJ's Great Society has always been one of my pet peeves. It has failed, but many Blacks still don't realize the enslavement that they've been under. LBJ's Great Society is anything but ... it IS ironically responsible for the inequality in schools, neighborhoods and the destruction to Black society, the very opposite of what LBJ's Great Society was supposed to resolve ... now they are fighting to get out from under those chains.
The Great Society Has Failed By Allen West
.................The bottom line is simple: The Great Society – the grand endeavor of the progressive, racist President Lyndon Baines Johnson, has failed. Fifty-five years later, we are witnessing the -- shall I say it --“chickens coming home to roost.â€
The Great Society, also known as the infamous War on Poverty was launched as every other government top-down solution is, with great promise and “noble†intention. It was an updated version of Roosevelt’s “chicken in every pot†solution.
What Johnson and his ilk believed was that they could manipulate the outcomes in the lives of individuals and create equality. They embraced the notion that the government could “level the playing field,†and with a plethora of government subsistence programs, all would be well.
In reflection, we should all agree, and stop whistling past the graveyard, that this was a program intended to do one thing -- create economic enslavement, dependency.
The Great Society blunder has resulted in the modern-day 21st century economic plantation in which American inner-cities have absolutely cratered....................
...............We can have all the conversations about racism you want, but we will just keep whistling past the graveyard. Until we recognize the devastation of Johnson’s irrational foray into massive government welfare has had upon our urban population centers, the problem will not be rectified. We can allow those empty wagons, like Al Sharpton, to be the loudest voices, or we can resolve ourselves to critically right the real wrongs that have been cast upon the American Black community.
The real issue is the “soft bigotry of low expectations.†That has resulted in the decimation and utter despondency we witness in American inner cities, controlled by Democrats over the past six decades. Their policies have created this incessant nightmare that is being unfolded before our eyes.
Yes, there are bad cops, as there are bad elements, individuals in any profession. However, the cancer that we are dealing with, not the symptom, is the breakdown of the family, destruction of educational opportunity, and thwarting of economic opportunity. But, no one wishes to address those issues, preferring to just continue to whistle past the graveyard...................
...............The progressive socialist left does not want the issues created by The Great Society to be fixed. They do not want to see strong, two-parent families, educational freedom, and economic empowerment. No, on this new plantation, the left needs victims, and victims provide them with electoral patronage. The real discussion about racism should be about the policies that have turned American inner cities into combat zones, literally................
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