After church today I had to grab a few things at Target which is nearby and in certain sections they had signs letting me know which products were made by black owned businesses. I almost shouted "it is the year 2022, I think a business today can sink or swim on their own merit". I know it is typical large corporation wokeness, and I can expect next month to hear endless crap about supporting female owned business, and in June we are all inundated with lgbt crap.
I have always seen this as so condescending because the best thing you can do for someone is hold them to the same standard as everyone else and not make excuses for failure. The vast majority of the world population had ancestors who faced extreme hardships so nobody is special in that regard. Government should allow businesses to operate without interfering or picking winners and losers like it always does. A tried and true lesson is that if you have a product/service people want, they will come regardless of who you are. I live in Texas so bbq is very popular (if any of you are ever in my area of North Texas I'll treat you to my favorite spot) and there used to be a gas station nearby where this older black man and his two son would serve bbq and they gave the gas station a cut of the profits. It was hugely popular and they eventually got their own restaurant. They produced a product in demand.
But honestly if people want to help those who don't have the same advantages, then volunteer your time. I've done some tutoring work and if I ever have the money I would love to open up places in low income areas that offers free tutoring, SAT prep, and a massive resource of books, especially western classics.
Sorry for the rant, but I am just so tired of this endless coddling of people. Especially the excuses made for violent crime or ignorant behavior. I am all for giving everyone equal opportunity (i.e. holding everyone to the same standard), but the fact of the matter is that some people will always have more opportunities than others or will have more advantages than others. Simple fact of life. Some people will also have to work harder than others.
I leave you with one of my favorite Thomas Sowell quotes (I often say I am not an economics major, but I have read enough Sowell and Friedman to sound like I know what I am talking about):
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization -- including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain -- without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
― Thomas Sowell
Race relations have been steadily improving until Obama came into power and started making everything about race. The media and the left at large followed suit. It very quickly went downhill from there.
While this is a nice story, it's wrong. Race relations have been deteriorating since the 60s because Blacks became a useful weapon by Globalists against the American people (aka Whites).
The disintegration of the Black family using welfare has led to untold amounts of suffering both in the Black community and the White community. Who pushed the drugs into Black inner cities? Who controls media that glorifies destructive behavior among Blacks? Who refuses to punish Black criminals?
Back in the 80s you'd see sitcoms like Cosby with intact Black families. In 90s it was Fresh Prince with a fatherless proto-thug in an intact Black family. From the 00s onward it's been all broken families and pimps & whores. All of this takes place on a backdrop where Whites have been victimized by Black criminals and denied (by warfare & lawfare) the ability to make their own White-only communities.
The 90s were a really prosperous time, and the 00s were marked by a lot of focus on Muslims as "the enemy." But if you ignore the surface level propaganda it's easy to see that the real problems were growing worse and all of the rot we see like "privilege" "equity" "social justice" took root during this time or even earlier.
Great points all around. Also look in general how the traditional family has disintegrated. Two of my favorite classic shows are leave it to beaver and Father Knows Best. It actually makes me sad how those shows are mocked now and the ideal of a family unit like that is seen as antiquated.
If MLK Jr. wasn't a man of faith, we'd be in much darker timeline.