Here's an opinion piece with a good healthy dose of truth.

Jun 30, 2020, 9:48 PM

"According to the make-believe world of the left, we are experiencing a great moment in American racial history. For the first time, the story goes, more whites than ever are coming to realize how racist America is, how racist cops are and how systemically racist everything in America is.

Only now do many Americans understand just how racist Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Ulysses Grant, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, "whitening" agents, meritocracy, Western culture, Christianity, jailing blacks and the NFL are. The bestselling book in America is about alleged "white fragility" -- the term for any rational response to the irrational charge that all whites are racist.

All this is supposed to be good for America's blacks.

But none of it is. In fact, it is all destructive.

Take the movement to defund police departments and the incessant charges of "police brutality" and "racist police." Only those who don't care about blacks other than using them to advance their power -- Democrats and the rest of the left, both black and white -- argue this war against the police is good for blacks. Already the increase in the number of blacks murdered, not to mention injured, is reaching levels unseen in decades. And there is every reason to assume, as police pull back from high-crime areas, it will get worse.

Take the left-wing mantra that all whites are racist. If I wanted to obstruct black progress, and especially damage black children, I couldn't come up with a more effective idea. To believe from early childhood that you walk through life held in contempt by all of your fellow citizens who are white is to walk through life with much more than a chip on your shoulder. It is more like a heavy boulder.

It means that you will walk through life with two paralyzing burdens: anger and victimhood. Either one is enough to ruin your life. Combined they're devastating. It gives one an idea of how cynical the left is that it would want to cultivate both of these life-ruining emotions in as many blacks as possible.

Anger and victimhood not only ruin the individual's life but also destroy one's relationships with others. Everyone who has an angry individual in their family knows not only how unhappy that person is but also how much havoc they wreak on the rest of the family. The same holds true for the relative who sees him or herself as a perpetual victim. Such people are both miserable and miserable to be around. And since victimhood is a major cause of evil -- people who see themselves as victims usually think they are not nearly as bound by moral rules as others are -- they are more likely to hurt others.

The "protesters" who destroy and loot think their victim status allows them to destroy and loot. The man identified as the president of the greater New York Black Lives Matter, Hawk Newsome, recently told Fox News: "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking ... figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It's a matter of interpretation."

Dennis Prager

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/06/30/the-present-moment-has-set-blacks-back-a-halfcentury-n2571585

'Y,' key sticky, do the math.
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Especially when they are raised that way.

I had a co-worker that was always the victim. The truth never mattered, he was always the one screwed. His wife had the same mindset.

He always got screwed and never promoted because he whined and complained. Constantly. So when he finally quit he was ‘proven’ right that he was the victim and getting screwed. It wasn’t his attitude and work ethic? Nah, can’t be.

His wife was a public school teacher. She kept trying to get in to the admin side but had no idea what she was doing teaching. Again, same self-fulfilling prophecy and she was the victim and being passed over. She mainly blamed it on that she was a woman. Never mind that fact that education is a female dominated industry. She ended up quitting because everyone was out to get her. Again, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This mindset is taught. Often times they watch their parents blame others for their failures. Take ownership of your failures, grow from them, and earn what you want.

The American Dream is still out there regardless of what people say.

Here's an opinion piece with a good healthy dose of truth.

Victim hood is a self-fulfilling prophecy...

Oddly, I'm seeing this same line of thought with a lot of

His whole campaign was “you’ve been getting screwed and I’m

"The election is rigged by the crooked media!"

My question... Why is the 'Y' key so sticky...? ;~)***

It's math.

The reality as always is somewhere in the middle.

I think you are confusing a couple issue by trying to...

-100 points for "the left" in the very first sentence.

If it rain and you don't have an umbrella wouldn't you...

-1000 points for equating not ruining America with snobbery.***

wait until they raise taxes, the min wage and other

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