No Apologies

This is in some ways a part two to what I wrote in my last blog because this is connected and pretty much comes from the same place...

A few years ago, Bill Cosby gave his now infamous “pound cake speech” at the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. In the event that you don’t remember or have never heard of this speech (here is the direct link to the audio on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gh3_e3mDQ8), let me briefly recap it. Cosby was essentially saying that black people need to get back to parenting, stop making excuses, stop speaking broken English (aka Ebonics) and to take advantage of the myriad opportunities that Martin Luther King and other civil rights people fought for in the 1960s.

The response set off a firestorm of controversy. Some black leaders were outraged that Cosby would make such comments in front of white people and to the mass media (as if white people are somehow unaware of the culture of excuses and victimization that the civil rights movement was built on). Others felt that Cosby, a rich and successful entertainer had no right to criticize “poor black folk.” On the other hand, very few black leaders came out in total agreement with Cosby. This was not really a surprise, because most so-called black leaders get paid and become famous for “blaming whitey,” while leaving the message of cleaning up oneself and telling black people that they need do better to Louis Farrakhan.

These types of speeches are few and far in between. When Barack Obama was campaigning he gave a spin off of the Cosby speech on Father’s Day 2008 (here is the direct link to the audio on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRXa9crAx0). From the altar of a so-called “black church" he issued a challenge to black men to be responsible and to be better fathers. Obviously, another firestorm of controversy ensued. This time it was lead by an old, washed-up, morally corrupt, extortionist, civil right guy. Yes, good ole Jesse Jackson took issue with Obama calling him a “nigger” and claiming that he wanted to “cut his nuts off” for “talking down to black people.” What is the basis for this contempt?

Is Louis Farrakhan the only black guy in the world who can tell black men to straighten up, act civilized and atone for absconding their responsisbilities as he did during the Million Man March in 1995?

Picture this: A “nigga” is hanging out on the corner selling crack, he has a jail record and doesn’t care if he goes back, he has a tattoo on face, rap music is blasting everywhere, his pants hang down to his ankles, he speaks incoherent slang, yells crude remarks at females who pass by, he has 5 kids by 5 different “baby mammas”… is this acceptable? Are we wrong to criticize the ways and actions of this primitive, predatory and sex-crazed animal? Well, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton never seem to criticize this type of violent ghetto animal. If anything, they would argue that this “nigga” is a “victim of white supremacy” and that it is the “systemic racism of the USA” that is somehow forcing this individual to behave like wild, crazed ape.

Are we still living in the 1960s? When to we start to hold each other accountable for our actions? When do we say the enough is enough and it is no longer acceptable for black people to pull the race card to excuse their defeatism, to neglect their children, play video games all day, smoking blunts and listen to that noise they call rap music and, moreover, that nowadays “blaming whitey” is not an excuse for their predicament. When are black people going to stop using the “legacy of slavery” as a reason to accept the disrespect of black women in BET videos and on the streets? When are black people going to stop glamorizing gangbangers who terrorize the community and cry a river at their funerals?

To tell another man to be a responsible individual is a positive thing when he is doing the opposite. He may not like to hear the truth, but the truth needs to be told. As Cosby wondered: “How can you become a doctor or lawyer when you are walking around ‘who dis nigga?' ‘what dat do?’” Why is speaking broken English becoming a more and more acceptable thing? It seems to me that people who can’t speak proper English should be shamed and ostracized. We can’t feel sorry for those who lack respect for the English language and show no desire to clean up their pronunciation and expand their vocabulary. Academic success should be rewarded and social deviance should be condemned.

If anyone has ridden a train in NYC you will hear these dastardly, filthy, fatherless teenagers on the train having the most vulgar, obscene and profane conversations (for lack of a better word) you could ever imagine. The only words that you can make out are “fuck,” “nigga” and “shit.” Try to tell them to clean up their language and you might get your face slashed. To them, this is the way to talk as it is their "culture" or so we have been forced to accept this wierd logic under the banner of "multi-culturalism.” I just don’t think that there will ever be progress amongst a people who act like this and can not be told to change for the better.

This seems like a horror story. In a sense, this conundrum has created a permanent underclass that will never be able to progress into mainstream society because of their own inherent limitations and a crew of so-called leaders who are apologists, excuse-makers and are constantly preying on their ignorance. Bill Cosby also told a little story in the speech about a black guy who stole a piece of pound cake and got shot by the cops. Black people and their “civil rights” leaders would obviously hit the streets in wild outrage. But the real question is what was the idiot doing stealing the pound cake in the first place?

The Future Of The Human Race

As I read about what is currently happening in California, I realized that many of my suspicions about America, in specific, and the human race, in general, are coming to a future near you. Lets start by looking at California. The state government is spending at a pace that it can no longer sustain. Their budget is 25% over their earnings, revenues have severely dropped and they can no longer go on the bond market and borrow money to keep things running. One possibility is a huge federal bailout, but it seems highly unlikey. So where does this leave California? In somewhat of cultural stalemate!

One possibility is to drastically raise taxes like they always do here in socialist New York City and state. There's a problem in NY... raise taxes! But it seems as though Californians have had a enough of tax hikes and they are speaking with their ballots. This time around, the majority of the citizens of California will not accept a tax hike. The only solution is to cut the size of government. And drastically. This means to virtually eliminate welfare, medicaid and food stamps... cut jobs held by state workers and teachers... release criminals early... and many other doomsday scenario actions.

So what are social ramifications of this? Well... poor kids may starve. They may be subjected to severely overcrowded classrooms. They may have no access to doctors and dentists. The people who are going to be hit the hardest are those on the receiving end of the welfare state. Hate it or love it, this is the general direction of where the Great Recession is taking us. The rich are sick and tired of iressponsible government taxing them at high rates to pay for the free medical care, free schooling, and food stamps that welfare recipients living in housing projects receive. The middle class are shaking their heads while wondering if its even worth it to go to college and chase the American dream anymore...they make more money than their parents and grandparents ever dreamed but yet they are still living paycheck to paycheck. So who is blame? Are the rich and middle class a gang of greedy bastards? Or have the poor broken the social contract by seemingly not working hard enough to get out of poverty?

If you look at our culture today, I think that we are at the beginning of a long are brutal culture war. The welfare state, as it exists, is going to have a harder and harder time sustaining itself. Quite honestly, some people are evolving into more intelligent beings while others are either stagnant or devolving into savage monkeys. The music (or lack of it), the language (if you want to call it that), the style of dress (or lack of it) are all indicators of where we are going as a collective. Some people are deaf, dumb, blind, angry and comfortable with their nothingness. They are yelling, fighting, drinking, drugging, whoring and have no perspective or desire to climb the socio-economic ladder. I guess there have always been people like this, but as the population grows and we compete for even scarcer resources this dangerous trend will come to a head.

H.G. Well once wrote something to the effect that intelligent and noble people are going to have to start killing their less intelligent and ignoble brethren if the human race is to ultimately survive. He was convinced that this would happen along racial lines. I see this happening along the lines of intelligence and productivity. I know at some point as the competition for food, clothing and shelter increases that some people are bound to starve. If they decide to rebel against those who have ways and means, they will be killed. It seems as though the less intelligent breed at higher rates than the intelligent. A society and species with such an alarming and backwards trend will ultimately struggle for its own survival. Civil war will be the result and some form of population control (ie forced sterilization) will be necessary.

I think there are other long term implications for this. As a segment of the human race becomes more and more intelligent and resourceful while the rest become less intelligent, more violent, superstitious and needy there will be a natural separation, and ultimately either an imposed termination or natural extiction of the latter. Yes, I think that this separation will lead to DNA variations which will result in a great genetic schism. The human race will divide into 2 very different species that will no longer be able to breed and ultimately communicate with each other. The inferior species (homo sapiens) will remain as such, while the new race (homo ____ will be superior. In time, after competing for scarce natural resources, the two species will tire of each other and no long care about their shared heritage. The superior species will annihilate the inferior species by violent genocide or just starve the other group into extinction.

This is moving far into the future as this will not happen in any of our lifetimes. But the facts remain that the Theory of Evolution is always in effect and we are in a constant state of flux. No, the world will not end in Armeggeon as those whacky, insane Jesus-Freaks would like it to, rather the human race as a whole or some of us will evolve into a more advanced species as evolution and natural selection deal harshly with what could be termed as "waste." I think right now we are seeing that California and by extension the USA can no longer support a population of people that are unproductive and breeding in higher numbers than those who support them.