Don’t Talk To Me About Personal Responsibility If …

Amen.

Poverty, inequality, injustice, all of that which progressives love to stake their altruistic instincts on exist because those in power WANT them to perpetuate. Think of how many politicians would be out of a job if dependent urban underclasses raised to believe that government should take care of them suddenly wake up one day and become self-respecting, self-sufficient, and permanently abandon the culture that glorifies crime, thuggery, disrespect for authority, and misogyny. When you have kids looking to Lil’ Wayne as their role model and wearing their hat backwards and their pants on the ground with boxers sticking out, who in the mainstream of society will accept that?

Bill Cosby has been spot-on regarding this topic for years. So has Philly mayor Michael Nutter. They are not apologists.

As you know, Jose, I’m old, white, and was born without an ass. Nothing back there to hold the old Levi’s up, if you get my meaning. Eugenics? Whereas over the years, I had always thought the neighborhood kids were just taunting me behind my back, as it were. My point of reference gain was an 18th. Century American banality about “pulling oneself over a fence by your own bootstraps,” today’s bootstrapping. There’s an ugly, scary, word to most kids, it sound like a whipping, and it is. Another thought to be impossible feat, just like a Laffer Curve in economic parlance, we want the most return where we have invested the least thought.

Jose: My immediate ancestors suffered through terrible indignities in the midst of brutal European dictatorships during the last century. They were luckily able to escape and arrive in this country with barely the clothes on their backs and a few possessions. Despite this, they picked themselves up and made something of themselves with little help from anyone. They made their own “boots” because they had brains and a work ethic. They were proud and grateful for what America had to offer. They lived within their means and didn’t complain when things got tough. Why would they, when the worst was already behind them? Nothing that could happen to them in this country could match what happened to their people in Europe during the mid 20th century.

You champion a subculture that wallows in continued failure and self-pity because of poor leadership, poor attitudes, and a poor sense of self-reliance.
Many members of that subculture who can’t figure out what to do are their own worst enemies. No amount of wealth redistribution or special legislation is going to lead them toward prosperity or happiness.

Don’t tell me about not having any “boots” when many boys in urban neighborhoods are wearing $100+ Air Jordans and live in homes with big screen TVs. How many times have I driven into supposedly “poor” urban neighborhoods and seeing Cadillacs and Lincolns parked on the streets?

You want to see REAL poverty? Travel to certain sections of Mexico City or New Delhi, India, where people are living in their own feces inside of shelters made of scrap wood, cardboard, and old blankets.

It’s evident that all you can present as a defense for ineptitude is a litany of excuses from handwringing pundits who will go to most any length to avoid the obvious about many citizens of the United States. Victimhood is the underlying theme in all your posts. People fail because of external forces, not due to a failure of the individual to prevail over their circumstances. This is highly flawed thinking and a major reason why these dire circumstances exist.

I also do not buy the premise that a distressed segment of the U.S. population cannot access food supplies. There are so many programs and charities that provide food for the poor. Some of these people living in climates that permit longer seasons can grow their own food as well if they tried.

Meritocracy makes perfect sense. Those who are the most intelligent, skillful, and hardworking should be the most rewarded. Of course, Marxists tried to eliminate class systems, subordinating liberty and property to the state, and placing everyone on the same plane. Note how that failed miserably everywhere it was tried.

We are nothing like Europe, yet, at least, although we have political leadership that would want us to more imitate the Euro-styled socialism that freely redistributes wealth and offers cradle-to-grave benefits and obscene worker’s benefits like 10 weeks of vacation and unlimited family leave with a guarantee of keeping your job. Sorry, I’d rather keep more of my wages and pay for my own services rather than be highly taxed and have the government decide what’s best for me.

But then, that’s how I was raised, to work hard and accept as few handouts as possible. That spirit of self-reliance permitted me to achieve and earn those letters after my name. I brandish them proudly. I have earned that right because I did the work.

I refuse to feel any guilt for the misery of those I have no connection with. I am not responsible for them as they are not responsible for me. They are imbued with free will and it’s up to them to exercise it.

There is NO provision in the U.S. Constitution to ensure anyone’s prosperity, although too many people seem to believe that a liberal interpretation of its language would indicate otherwise.

By the way, my family arrived on these shores after World War 2 as refugees and remained proudly working class all their lives. We never held our hands out or blamed others for any misery we incurred. If we didn’t have it we did without.

Perhaps your protectorate could learn something from my people, that victimhood only ensures a lifetime of failure.

I agree, Jose. I see the same set of circumstances and hear the same things said, albeit my place of employ is a predominately White, predominately upper middle class, college preparatory school. The students suffer from affluence influenza, and the majority of my colleagues cannot seem to wrap their minds around the fact that there is as much dysfunctionality where we are amongst the student body and their families as there is at the neighboring urban public schools. Poverty and affluence influenza are, at least to me, opposite sides of the same proverbial coin, and both constitute the cockroach on the white rug: we see it, but cannot/do not/will not acknowledge it.

“McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.”

Dear Jose,

Your kindness handling Mr. Hauck speaks volumes, and your wisdom allowing his neo-racist rants here show what our children face.

He does not sound like a happy man, but so few living in his imagined world are.

I find it telling that he has comments locked on his blog.

(I have been rocked by your last few posts, and again, you have pushed me to change who I am in (and out) of the classroom. Thank you.)

I’ll add this … people like Chairman Vilson and his blogging buddy “The Field Negro” are the Useful Idiots for the Left, fomenting the unrest the aforementioned Democrat Party powerbrokers require.

This is exactly the reason why race hucksters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still permitted to hang around and have access to national platforms

As I wrote elsewhere, any criticism of liberal advocacy on behalf of the “poor” is met with charges of racism and bigotry. As I’ve written again and again over the years while posting to blogs, usenet, or message boards, charges of being a troll are simplistic means to label those whom offended parties cannot dissuade from not posting. Comrade Vilson, you’ve scored a 100% in all categories, you’ve made your pals from the NBPP very proud.

I have yet to receive any responses to my blog posts via my email account addy, which is clearly posted. This means that you aren’t interested in making your points known since you won’t have an audience to back you up. That’s among the funny things about libs, they think as a mob and fear standing alone against dissenters who challenge their views. They want to go public so their lib cohorts chime in with their parrot lines. I consider it pathetic that you would consider blog contacts as “friends.” You’ve likely never met them or even know them very well. Sorry, but I have a much more stringent criteria for friendship. I could never consider someone whom I only know via the net a “friend.” It’s a ridiculous notion.

Harass ALL your friends? You only have TWO friends, Comrade Vilson? I posted to teachermrw and matthew mezger’s blogs, that’s it.

I don’t expect anyone to post my retorts, You and anyone else are free to delete or moderate any comment I make. As long as I know I have free access to your response forms, I can make my own choice what I wish to do. By allowing me this access you are in essence giving me a free pass.

Personally, I could care less if you or anyone blocks me. There are enough libs in the blogosphere to attack for the next twenty years.

Now, don’t let me keep you from stewing in the self-flaggelation of your victimhood mentality.

The Field Negro? That’s it, indeed. Hauck, you astonish me! Black Dahlia Black. Malcom differentiates between the black and the house negro, whereas the Negro lives in the master’s house, and so has a vested interesting in it. The black would just as soon burn it down, given the opportunity.