John McWhorter makes a prediction about how next week’s anniversary of the Katrina disaster will be covered. An excerpt:
It wasn’t black people’s fault that influential whites thought it was progressive to teach poor blacks to replace “We Shall Overcome” with “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.” Nor is there anything “black” about fatherless boys, growing up in neighborhoods where working 9 to 5 was optional, being so likely to turn to crime, many of them now returning to terrorizing New Orleans after racking up the homicide rates in Houston since last August. Anyone who saw Katrina’s black victims as undeserving laggards 1) had a dim interest in facts and 2) was numb to suffering.
However, the exact same charge applies to those who saw Katrina as a “wake up call” about “institutional racism.”
To ignore the unintended mistakes of the Great Society neglects history.To teach people that nothing will improve their lives short of a utopian society with a completely level playing field that no one expects to ever exist is to dismiss them.
Sadly, that is exactly what we are going to watch one “thoughtful”commentator after another doing all next week.
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