Al Sharpton's Welfare Ultimatum

by JASmius



And, since he is Barack Obama's "Civil Rights Czar," I'm assuming he speaks for The One on this matter:

On Sunday, Al Sharpton appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press to fulfill his weekend race-baiting quota, discussing the grand jury results in the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. After Chuck Todd asked Sharpton about addressing the problem of “economic hopelessness” in the black community – Garner was arrested for selling “loosies,” cigarettes outside the pack, illegally – Sharpton explained that he supported a “jobs bill…infrastructure development.”

I.e. more "stimulus" spending.

Then he continued by explaining that if Congress didn’t pass such bills, black men could not be held responsible for taking care of their children.

 ....aaaaaaaand will presumably keep right on rioting and destroying their neighborhoods and killing each other and prey upon whites and otherwise wage Barack Obama's race war until Obamerikastan capitulates to Sharpie's demands.

Where was his "black"mail aimed?  Capitol Hill, of course.  O's FY 2016 budget will undoubtedly have all of Sharpton's delineated welfare goodies in it, and the incoming, unified Republican Congress will be expected to deliver them with no questions asked.  And when they don'?  More rioting, more civil unrest, more race war, and it will all be the "racist" GOP's fault.

Governing by extortion, in so many words.  With an eye, of course, towards 2016.

I told you the next two years (at least) were going to get escalatingly ugly.

Warner Todd Huston:

“You can’t kill a jobs bill and infrastructure and then tell men to take care of their families. You can’t have it both ways,” Sharpton insisted.

This whole idea rings hollow, though. After all, the rate of illegitimate births in the African-American community is now well over 70%, but in 1965 it was only 24% (as Daniel Patrick Moynihan reported). Why does that matter? Because in the early 60s, while the illegitimacy rate and divorce rates were low and the marriage rates high....there were almost no government programs to speak of then. The far left-wing had not fully installed the “Great Society” that gives freebies to everyone in 1960, yet black men in America had [far less] less trouble taking care of their families… and that was even in a day when Jim Crow was still ruling the day in many parts of the country.

It's not that black men can't take care of their families.  It's that they've been raised not to, to foist that responsibility off on government, and to blame whitey when everything falls apart as a direct result.  And now they have a president and his "Civil Rights" czar reinforcing that despicably racist dogma.

Yep, an ugly two(-plus) years indeed.