It was the Democrats who formed the "Great Society" which made the ghetto into a welfare zone. By establishing an entitlement mentality and encouraging women to have babies out of wedlock the poor were encouraged to become de facto serfs. Now the ghetto is a place of gangs and crime and welfare checks and food stamps and terrible education and housing falling apart from neglect. The Democrat Machine strongholds like Detroit and Gary and East Chicago are already literally falling apart. Bigger cities with more resources and smarter Feudal Lords like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are only falling apart in certain areas.
We know there are places in Chicago that people don't go unless they live there. Same goes for LA and NY. Yet somehow all of these ghetto populations, most of whom are people of color, just automatically vote Democrat. They sometimes do it because the Dems come pick them up and pass then a sawbuck for their vote. They are told to do it by rich men in fine suits who live in mansions but portray themselves as champions "of the people." Even some pastors encourage the voting for the very people who have turned the inner city into a herd of cattle trained to automatically vote for D rather than R.
Having effectively destroyed the family structure of poor people of all colors, and predominately those of colors other than white, it is then the height of hypocrisy for the lefty Democrats to play the race card. Barack Obama, half white, has a house that is a mansion and has been propped up and carried through schooling and eventually politics and the Senate and the White House by rich politicians and criminals and anarchists and idealogues, never having done much of any work other than "organizing." We have an Executive Branch that is more communist than capitalist, more intent on building the central control of America than the pain Americans are going through right now. Jobs are disappearing, inflation is rising, we are refusing to access our own resources, our international reputation as producers and being an international power with a heart? That is out the window. I wonder how many evil leaders see our President as a mark? I wonder how many Democrats see the poor neighborhoods and actually give a rip? Why would they want to end a situation that guarantees their place of power and jobs for all their relatives and friends?
I leave it to Michelle Malkin to call all the hypocrites out:
Americans are "my people," Eric Holder
By: Michelle Malkin 03/04/11 9:05 PM
Michelle Malkin
.U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department's selective enforcement policies. It backfired.
In pandering to skin-deep identity politics and exacerbating race-consciousness, Holder has given the rest of us a golden opportunity to stand up, identify "our people" and show the liberal poseurs what post-racialism really looks like.
Herman Cain is my people. He's my brother-in-arms. I've never met him. But we are family.
We are kin because we are unhyphenated Americans who are comfortable in the black, brown and yellow skin we are in. We are growing in numbers -- on college campuses, in elected office, on the Internet, on public airwaves, everywhere. And that drives liberals mouth-frothing crazy.
Cain is the successful Georgia businessman who has wowed audiences across the country with his passion for free markets, free minds and the American Dream. The former president of Godfather's Pizza and forceful Tea Party speaker happens to be black.
So he must pay the price that all minority conservatives in public life must pay. As I noted last week, a cowardly liberal writer recently derided Cain as a "monkey in the window," a "garbage pail kid" and a "minstrel" who performs for his "masters."
I've heard it for nearly 20 years in public life. Every outspoken minority conservative has.
Val Prieto is my people. A fierce, freedom-loving American blogger of Cuban descent, he rejects race-card games and refuses to be lumped in with Hispanic ethnic grievance-mongers. In response to pro-illegal immigration marchers who infamously desecrated the American flag, Prieto wrote:
"I have never and will never, despite having many issues with the government of the United States throughout the years, burn a flag of the United States of America. I am Cuban by birth, American by the grace of God. And a darned proud, dignified, thankful and respectful American. ... I refuse to be lumped together as a class or a race simply because we speak a similar language. ... I ain't Mexican, I ain't Latino and I ain't Hispanic. I am an American of Cuban descent. And damned proud of it."
Katrina Pierson is my people. She's a feisty young Texas mom and Dallas Tea Party activist who supports limited government principles and rejects left-wing identity politics. She confronted the NAACP last year with a rousing manifesto of political independence and rebutted the left-wing group's attacks on the Tea Party as racist:
The NAACP, she observed, is made up of "Democrats who bow to a Democrat master today as they once did over 200 years ago. Once this is realized by the forgotten society, race in this country will be as irrelevant as those who thrive off of it." Amen, sister.
Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., a retired Army lieutenant colonel who happens to be black, is my people. Unafraid to skewer progressive sacred cows, he speaks boldly against global jihad and its Fifth Column enablers screaming "Islam-o-phobe!"
West has also nailed the Congressional Black Caucus as "a monolithic voice that promotes these liberal social welfare policies and programs that are failing in the black community, that are preaching victimization and dependency; that's not the way that we should go."
According to U.S. News and World Report's Kenneth Walsh, President Obama told guests at a private White House dinner that he believed the Tea Party movement had a "subterranean agenda" of racism against him. But West summed up the movement's transcendent, post-racial agenda forthrightly:
"The Tea Party is a constitutional, conservative grassroots movement -- and that's it. The Tea Party stands for three things: They want to see effective, efficient constitutional government, they stand for national security, and they stand for free market, free enterprise solutions. That's it."
It's government of, by and for the people -- all the people. Not just the ones still shackled by reflexive Democratic Party loyalty. We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.
Examiner Columnist Michelle Malkin, author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies," is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/03/americans-are-my-people-eric-holder#ixzz1Ge9PSabB
