Fred Reed on Black People

[Bukkake]

For those of you unfamiliar with Fred Reed, he's a police
reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers
(law-enforcement columnist for the Washington Times). Anyway,
Fred publishes (published) a weekly online column in which he
got to say the things his editors would never, ever have let
him write in the paper. His stuff is iconoclastic and various
articles have probably offended everyone regardless of
political orientation.

So, with the warning that "This is definitely not politically
correct", here comes Fred.

The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system
and a culture. Please note that he elegantly describes the mood
of many Americans and he does so without prejudice.

Slavery Reparations .......by Fred Reed

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of
Afro- American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay
reparations to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. He is
joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional
blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill, huh?

I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow.
Be patient. You want free money because of slavery, right? I
don't blame you." I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I
believe in justice. I'll give you a million dollars for every
slave I own, and another million for every year you were a
slave. Fair enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose
I have? In round numbers, I mean...Say to the nearest dozen.
And how long were you a slave?

Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I
didn't do and didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug
nuts on a birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you
didn't do and never happened to me. I've never been coated in
Dutch chocolate and thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet
you've never done it to anyone. I want reparations. Kinda
silly, isn't it?

But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street
that runs in two directions. You want money from me for what
some other whites did to some other blacks in another century.
How about you guys paying whites reparations for current
expenses caused by blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half
of Los Angeles, a city in my country. Cities are expensive,
Hank. Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean. Whites had
to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send me a
check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the
verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't
like the verdict in the Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my
house and loot Korean grocers. Over the years blacks have
burned a lot of American cities: Newark, Detroit, Watts, on and
on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in
all its forms, of large police forces and jails and security
systems in department stores.

I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of
crime committed by blacks. Toss in the cultural cost of
lowering standards in everything for the benefit of blacks. See
what I mean?

Now, I'd view things differently if you said, "Fred, blacks
can't get anywhere in a modern country without education. We
know that. We need better schools, smarter teachers, harder
courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words. Can you
help us?" I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell
yes. Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some
real schools and get them into the economic mainstream." I'd
say it partly because it would be the right thing to do, and
partly, because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for
blacks to study and learn to compete and stop burning places.
But is it going to happen? You may not believe it, but I, and
most whites, don't like seeing blacks as miserable and screwed
up as they are. I spend a fair amount of time in the projects.
Those places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids
turn into semiliterate dope dealers who barely speak English.
It just plain ain't right. But, Hank, what am I supposed to do
about it? I can't do your children's homework.. At some point,
people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get
done.

Maybe it's time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank.. I think
blacks are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just
demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century. Get
a few hundred people in the street, implicitly threaten to loot
and burn, holler about slavery, and the Great White Cash Spigot
turns on. Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most
recognize that what once was a civil-rights movement has become
a shakedown game. Few people still feel responsible for the
failings and inadequacies of blacks. Political correctness
keeps the lid on -- but everyone knows the score. Which scares
me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and
burning. (The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the
civil-rights movement. Ever think about that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and wearier of
it. Not good.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical
convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I write, you
demand reparations for slavery. Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it
was) want money for some ancient race riot. Other blacks reject
the Declaration of Independence, blacks in New York hint
broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand
the elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal
opportunity apparatus, which means blacks, wants to sue Silicon
Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers.

That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank. What happens if
whites ever say, "No"?

Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard,
and you can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits whites
are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it. But
don't you think you might do blacks more good if you told them
to complain less and study more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the
best approach might be to find some really smart black guys,
and get them to study digital design, not Black Studies. That's
how everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel
left out, and racial tension would decline.

Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of
Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor
black kids to study real life sho-nuf subjects?

Fred Reed

[vx trauma]

wise words and thoughts imo.

[Thor Kaufman]

Who gives a shit about such complainers and demanding assholes like that Harvard professor, anyway? Empty words, probably with an angsty racist undertone from that police guy, nothing more.

[ExtremeDrinker]

I've had to work hard for what I've got, and frankly, it's a lot more than anyone I know that's my age. Something about common sense and being wise with money, or something. Plus, that whole earning an education in a field that may not pay great, but it's a field that is in demand. Now if I'd done like a few people I know and went into Drama, I'd be a waiter. If I'd gone into engineering like other people I know, I'd be working in engineering. If I'd gone into art, I'd be sitting at Denny's complaining about my day job as a typesetter. If I'd dropped out of high school like most of my friends, I'd be sitting on my ass at home with 2 stupid kids, a stupid spouse (or not), and just suck the hell out of that Government teat then I'd bitch about how my life sucks.

It's all up to personal decisions. Choose to get an education in something that will actually provide you with a job. If you can't afford university, that's BULLSHIT because there are scholarships for damn near everything. If you're african american or even native american, you can get a free ride at most schools just for having a different skin tone than the majority.

I'm not a racist by any means. I'm more inclined to believe that all people choose their own paths and fuck themselves over. I sure as shit didn't force my buddies to drop out of school and hate me because I've got a really great life.

[ApTyp]

Believe it or not, the kind of school one grows up in actually influences the kind of person you become later in life. And yes, believe it or not, in large cities there are areas where 90% of population belongs to one particular ethnic background. This is why black parents in West Philadelphia send their kids on daily 1-hour long (one-way!) trips to quieter, more ethnically diverse schools in Northeast Philadelphia, rather than dumping them in overcrowded, underfunded, and understaffed kiddie warehouses of their own neighborhoods. Simply saying 'omg you didn't study, this is why your fucked up' is a cope-out, if being said by a politician or someone who claims to be an expert in social matters.

In the age of outsourcing and offshoring, the problem of social decay and marginalization is sure to become even worse. When you eliminate factory jobs for people without college education, or outsource them to a company from another county or even state, the results can have absolutely devastating effect on the local community. I was a personal witness to such an event in the city I was born in before my family came to the United States. Until politicians take steps to make sure that a local community has plenty of jobs, and adequate child education environment, YOU. WILL. NOT. MAKE. A. DENT. IN. CRIME.

[RightOn]

I loved the look on Henry Louis Gates Jr's face when he "went back to Africa" to find his "roots" and instead found out that HIS black ancestors where one of the MANY ruling class that SOLD other blacks INTO slavery! LOL

How does Louie feel about the slavery (black on black) practiced routinely in Africa TODAY??!!?? No comment there Louie?

Blacks - as a group - are the biggest losers history has ever seen! Forever making excuses for their cultural shortcomings and refusing to ever to accept ANY responsibility.

Blacks have cost us BILLIONS of dollars since the 1960's in the form of all the social "maintenance" mentioned in that article. Fuck blacks, drop dead, make your own living and stop sponging off responsible people!

Louie is an aspiring con and shake-down artist like his role model… Jesse (I have a scheme) Jackson!


http://www.newnation.org/NNN-dark-crime.html


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[Spazmo]

stuff

Well, yes, except no. Ryno provided the example of himself as a person who grew up in conditions that led most of his peers to drop out or generally do jack shit with their lives, but he himself kicked out the jams, got an education and now rocks out mightily--due to his own effort. And me, I went to a high school that was supposed to be fairly high brow (a Quebec current affairs periodical, L'actualite, consistently rates it in the top 10-15 high schools in the province in their yearly high school rankings). And while a lot of the school's graduates have gone on to university (assuming university attendance is an indicator of quality as a person), there's also a number of people who graduated with me who currently aren't doing a whole lot with their lives, just working shitty jobs to pay the rent on their crappy apartments that they got so they could move out from under their parent's roofs and rock and roll all night and party every day. So yeah, where you grow up and where you go to school definitely will have an effect on a large scale: looking at a large sample of people, ghetto schools tend to produce ghetto people, and fancy schools tend to produce fancy people. But I always figured--and this has always seemed central to all that American dream junk--that the individual always can always make his own opportunity and do something with his life, no matter where it comes from. It'll be harder for some and easier for others, but it's still possible.

Shit, you yourself keep complaining about how crappy your neighbourhood is and we know you're a filthy Russian gun fetishist, but you still managed to get a nice compsci degree, and if you ever crawl out of the bottle, you might do some more good stuff with your life.

j/k <3 aptyp

[ApTyp]

You missed the point, Spazmo. Obviously there are people who manage to rise above the circumstances. But we're talking about rising the quality of life in the whole neighborhood, not for an individual family or a person.

Shit, you yourself keep complaining about how crappy your neighbourhood is

I don't complain. I "relate tails of yore", since I've been living in on nice quiet street for years now

[ExtremeDrinker]

Lemme relate a nice story about my "poor" students. They make up 98% of my school with 93% of the students on the free lunch program and 4 out of 10 get food sent home on the weekends. Anywho...I just love when these kids come to school in their tattered clothes, no coats, shoes too small, stomachs growling, and showing off the new PS2 or XBOX360 games they got the night before. One of my "poorest" students brings all sorts of really expensive "stuff" to school on a daily basis. It seems rather than purchasing him warm clothing and food, his parents purchase video games, movies, and his "dad's brand new 52 inch plasma screen TV that looks really cool with the xbox360 they got last week." This kid also, I might add, lives in a barn. A real barn. The same can be said for many of the students in my school. Their parents waste their money on all sorts of useless stuff and their children come to school with nothing at all. I've given away more backpacks, shoes, coats, and school supplies these past 5 months than I ever thought I'd have to in my life. Poverty is relative to the parent's ignorance when it comes to money. Students, of course, can't help it. Most, hoever, don't feel they need an education because their parents work menial jobs doing lawns, and cheap contract work in the manual labor area, and they have all these cool things at home. Food is not a necessity, but having cool stuff is. Warm coats, health insurance, shoes, and natural gas are just things other people need. It's sad, but that's how these kids are being raised, and they don't know that living that way isn't really a good thing. But that's how they see themselves living, and that's all they strive for. "I want to get out of school as soon as possible so I can have stuff." The end.

[PsychoSniper]

Things would be much simpler if they built a large ghetto in the middle of the desert.

Anyone in the country wanting welfare or other longterm 'assistance' would be required to move there.

I give it 5 days before it looks like somilia, 10 before it gets carpet bombed.

[Kashluk]

WEE U R SO SMART!!11

[RightOn]

Things would be much simpler if they built a large ghetto in the middle of the desert.

Anyone in the country wanting welfare or other longterm 'assistance' would be required to move there.

I give it 5 days before it looks like somilia, 10 before it gets carpet bombed.

Interesting thought. And you're correct that WOULD be the outcome.

I always wanted to see the reality show "Survivor" with nothing but BLACK contestants!! We KNOW they would rip each others throats out till - heh - there was one left! Why don’t they HAVE a BLACK “Survivor?� Think of the ratings!

“Ghetto Survivor�