Native Americans lost their land to the white man. They were defeated by superior technology,
and, one might argue, by materialist values.
But what finally, utterly destroyed Native American culture was the
white man’s liberality. Enclosed in
reservations, American Indians were provided with shelter, provisions, and a
cornucopia of government largesse that ensured their total and permanent
dependence on Washington, D.C. Their
race has survived, but it is dispirited by alcoholism, unemployment, and all
manner of social dysfunction.
In the same way, black Americans have been victimized. Their forebears were exploited as slaves, and
then repressed as second-class citizens.
But what finally devastated black American culture, starting in the
sixties, was the white man’s liberality.
“Enlightened” urban planning ruined the black neighborhood, by forcing
its inhabitants into public housing, feeding them welfare checks and the empty
calories of progressivist propaganda.
What followed from the programs of LBJ’s Great Society? Illegitimate births, drugs, crime, the demise
of responsible fatherhood, and an addiction to federal handouts. Affirmative Action has hobbled the abilities
of black youth, who, lacking initiative, have turned their energies toward
sports, rap music, and making parole.
And now, at last, it is the majority’s turn. Follow the “life” of Julia online. Obama’s campaign has laid it out for everyone
to see. Free school lunches, free
condoms and contraceptive pills, food stamps, college grants, rent subsidies,
energy credits, insurance waivers, reimbursements for prescription drugs, plus
ten thousand other “entitlements.”
This—not war, or economic calamity—is what will finally kill the
American spirit. America will degenerate
into a maze of revisionism, micro-legislation, and quotas, smothering the
Constitution. In that instant the legacy
of liberalism will come full circle, and Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee or not,
will let out a triumphant whoop in Massachusetts.
Friends: Vote with care in November.
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