Blacks in Power Don’t Empower Blacks | 5 Minute Video
Between 1970 and 2012, the number of black elected officials rose from fewer than 1,500 to more than 10,000. How has this affected the black community? Jason Riley of The Manhattan Institute answers the question in this video.
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Since 1965, the number of black elected officials has exploded. Between 1970 and 2012, it grew from fewer than 1,500 to more than 10,000. And, oh, yes—a black man was elected president. Twice.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that all these political gains would lead to economic gains. But that has not proven to be the case. In fact, during an era of growing black political influence, blacks as a group progressed at a slower rate than whites, and the black poor actually lost ground.
Why was the conventional wisdom wrong?
Because it was based on the incorrect assumption that politics was the pathway to black progress. Only black politicians, so the thinking went, could properly understand and address the challenges facing black Americans.
It wasn’t stable families, hard work, or education that would lift blacks into the middle class; it was more black city councilmen, congressmen and senators.
But the evidence, even according to liberal social scientists like Gary Orfield, “indicates that there may be little relationship between the success of . . . black leaders and the opportunities of typical black families.”
So, while black politicians, from Tom Bradley and Marion Barry to Maxine Waters and John Conyers, achieved considerable personal success, their constituents did not.
Yet this calculus—political success is a pre-requisite to a better life—remains progressive orthodoxy today.
When Michael Brown was shot dead after assaulting a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, much was made over the racial composition of the police department and city leaders.
But if black representation among law enforcement and city officials is so critically important, how do you explain the rioting in Baltimore the following year after a black suspect there died in police custody? At the time, 40 percent of Baltimore’s police officers were black. The Baltimore police commissioner was also black, along with the mayor and a majority of the city council.
What can be said of Baltimore is also true of Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., where black mayors and police chiefs and city councilmen and school superintendents have been in office for decades.
But to what end?
As I document in my book, False Black Power?, when blacks had little political power, they nevertheless made significant economic progress. In the 1940s and ’50s, black labor-participation rates exceeded those of whites, black incomes grew much faster than white incomes, and the black poverty rate fell by 40 percentage points. Between 1940 and 1970—that is, during the Jim Crow era, with its racist laws— and before any affirmative action, the number of blacks in middle-class professions quadrupled. In other words, racial gaps were steadily narrowing without any special treatment for blacks.
And then came the War on Poverty in the mid-sixties.
This was supposed to close the gap once and for all. Yet, despite billions of dollars of government assistance in the form of welfare payments, housing projects and enforced hiring programs like affirmative action, black poverty rates remained unchanged relative to white poverty rates.
In fact, a strong case can be made that to the extent that a social program, however well-meaning, interferes with a group’s self-development, it does more harm than good. Government policies that discourage marriage and undermine the work ethic—open-ended welfare benefits, for example—help keep poor people poor.
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Remove the Teacher’s Union’s, open School Choice and investigate graft among the school administration and the local politicians. Use that insane amount of saved money to shrink the teacher to student ratio and give a reasonable bonus to the teachers whose students gain the most.
Black students are every bit as capable and intelligent as other students. The teachers union and Racism Inc. politicians are inhibiting the black community so they can profit and have a easily led group of disaffected to give them power.
Thousands of generations of black leaders in African countries proves that it’s not race it’s mindset.
This video is a good illustration of why Lyndon B Johson was just the worst
I hate to say it but black politicians have tended to be the most crooked.😮💨
Message for the black American community:
(Coming from an educated black Australian normal man myself born in 1998 with no criminal record.)
-Build your own safe communities by coming together.
-Cancel black history month because it is super condescending and very cringeworthy to black people.
-Eradicate alcohol culture and drug culture because it is poisoning the black community.
-Eradicate baby mama culture because it is so reckless and so selfish to children both boys & girls.
-Eradicate hyperfemininity culture and embrace nurturing femininity.
-Eradicate machismo culture and embrace heroic masculinity.
-Eradicate the victim mentality.
-Have diversity of thought.
-Have more black cops.
-Have more black fathers in their homes so they could provide and protect for their daughters & their sons plus they should stay married to their wives.
-Motivate black American boys and black American girls to be courageous & to be educated.
-Stop bullying each other for not being black enough and stop calling each other coons & sellouts because it is absolutely evil plus if you are born black your black end of story.
-Stop calling each other the N Word because it is so dehumanizing to black people all around the world. No one regardless of what ethnicity should ever use the N Word period.
-Stop comparing yourself to your enslaved and your segregated black ancestors because you have no idea the amount of suffering they all went through. So be grateful that you are living free from chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregational laws in modern day present America.
-Stop depending on big government because the government is so corrupted and so evil.
-Stop mixing gang culture and hip hop rap culture together because gang culture is bloody disgusting & pure evil. Also hip hop rap culture is meant to be about cool beats poetry and breakdancing period.
-Stop rioting and trashing the black community every time a black person gets mistreated or worse killed by an abusive cop when you hear it on the propaganda news media. Protest peacefully to seek justice period.
-Stop sagging your pants and pull it up because it is absolutely disgusting, embarrassing, immature, inappropriate, & beyond stupid.
-Stop the gun violence in your community.
-Stop the race baiting paranoia.
-Stop with the ghetto slang accent and speak proper English because your embarrassing black people all across America & around the world.
-Vote for different political parties.
Follow these four simple steps to have a less troubled life:
Step 1: Graduate from high school.
Step 2: Do not have kids out of wedlock.
Step 3: Hold down a job.
Step 4: Do not commit crimes.
Good example,chicago and nyc.
😂😂 They just cant help themselves.
when blacks (or more or less, POCs in general) entered politics and became public officials, their respective communities became complacent; the mildest among them expected hand-outs and door-to-door delivery of welfare checks. The most aggressive expected whites and other races to be lynched because 'finally! a black mayor!' .
Complacency bred laziness, apathy, ignorance.
Whereas the POCs, who found it irrelevant that a member of their race became a public official, still retained their steam – still retained the momentum built up during the abject poverty of their family, and eventually make it into the middle class by their own endurance. An admirable thing, actually, because most of these POCs who made it out of poverty on their own actually expected JUSTICE from their public official who are the same race as them and not SOCIAL FAVOURITISM.
SOCIAL JUSTICE =/= (true) JUSTICE
such bigotry
It's not the skin color it is the BLACK LIFESTYLE leading to poor financial choices, lack of ability to critically think about actions taken to poor outcomes. So called BLACK LEADERS do not benefit the BLACK population or contribute to it's advancement, those leaders are still stuck on skin color instead of the good character that MLK proposed. The BLACK LIFESTYLE doesn't promote assimilation into polite society in fact it outright rejects common practices such as education and family values. These poor choices usually lead to crime and an early death blamed of course on anyone but themselves.
Look at the continent of Africa … any black nations have their shit together?
There was a first all black bank once, and if I recall correctly, it rapidly became famous for being more discriminatory against loans to black applicants, than the white owned (and mostly staffed) banks.
High income skills. Scalable successful businesses. HIgh return investments. Is how any group rises independently.
Hi simon’s dad
Police are brutal savages!
Sadly I agree
This is something that South Africans need to hear.
Yeah they fight each other instead
As with so many issues, government is the problem, laissez-faire is the solution. Varying levels of melanin in any individual's dermal layers is entirely irrelevant.
Don't know how many times I've watched this and it never gets old.
So we are going to act like COINTELPRO isnt being done today and that is what the problem is?
Oh and affirmative action benefits White people more than Blacks. Google it.
Malcolm X has warned future generation about black leaders who are the puppets of the white Liberals.
Obama shouldn't count
Perfect, superb, this video explain the correct data about race and poverty.
Remember folks never trust a politician in determining your future majority of them dont give a shit about you
Wow… These videos are awesome
When blacks took full control of Rhodesia, they went from a food exporter, to a starving nation in just a few years. When blacks took full control of South Africa, they went from the most prosperous African nation to the most inept and destroyed nation. Being black is by no means a guarantee that they will do a better job than the whites they desire to replace and rule over.
Excellent video debunking the leftist systemic racism myth!
Blacks in power empower themselves. See Patriss Cullors and the BLM for proof.
Listen closely. This is only a small part of our conversation over dinner this evening.
Black politicians are just like every other stripe of politicians. They are venal greedy people who don’t give a shit about anything other than their own power and enrichment.
Handouts are not a proven path to a successful life. They say that the best thing about success is the person you become on your way to success.
No lies detected.