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7. THE RACE PROBLEM

"The instincts and faculties of different men and races differ in a variety of ways almost as profoundly as those of animals in different cages of the zoological gardens." - Inquires into Human Faculty - Francis Galton, 1883

"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced regardless of his own merit or efforts." - Booker T. Washington

When the first slaves were imported into America over three hundred years ago, the reasons seemed sound, even though they weren't. They were sold to both the North and South. New York as well as Atlanta had slaves. General Ulysses Grant had slaves. There were no such things as tractors, or any but the most rudimentary farm machinery. Our forefathers were suffering from what they considered to be an acute labor shortage. Slave trade and slavery were common in the world, and had existed for thousands of years in other lands. Slaves were from all races, not just Negroes. Slavery was common as far back as Biblical times. American slave owners treated their slaves well, and the occasional brute was atypical. Slaves were considered personal property that had been bought and paid for, as the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court indicated. It was, and still is, senseless for someone to treat their personal property in an unkind way when they depend it for a living. The average slave had a far better life in America, even as a slave, than he did in his former Africa. It was wrong for America to have ever had slaves, but we were the first nation to outlaw it. The consequence of African slave importation has been conflict between the black and white races ever since, and especially since forced integration became the law of the land. In Africa today, wealthy blacks still own slaves of their own race.

Between 1440 and 1870 it is reliably reported that over 11 million black Africans were exported by their own people. Slave exportation was the primary African export for hundreds of years, and had nothing to do with whites. Only 5% of exported black Africans ended up in America, a paltry 500,000. Four million went to Brazil, two million to British West Indies, and over one and a half million to French West Indies. Two million died on ships, and when slave exportation declined, African economies declined as well. It is a popular myth to blame whites on Africa's major export, which was their own people for slaves around the world. Whites may have transported them and sold them at foreign ports, but it was their own people who rounded them up and sold them.

Even though the importation of Negroes from Africa was a dastardly deed, Negroes have excelled, and been a credit to their race from the very beginning. Phillis Wheatley, born in 1753, and imported from Senegal as a servant, was named by her masters, who taught her to read and write. She wrote magnificent poetry that was greatly admired by George Washington. Richard Allen, born as a slave in Philadelphia in 1760, was one of America's great ministers who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, (AME) which today has millions of members. Allen's Lane, in a ritzy section of Philadelphia is named for Allen. Ira Aldridge, born in 1807, became one of the world’s greatest actors, specializing in Shakespeare. Frederick Douglass, born a slave in 1817, dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery, became one of the leaders of the Republican Party, was made a United States Marshal, and was a superb debater and public speaker. Harriet Tubman, was born a slave in 1823, and like Frederick Douglass, devoted her life to the cause of freedom for her people. Tubman became a nurse for the Union, in the War Between the States, serving with extreme bravery in many locations. In cooperation with the Quakers, she helped thousands of slaves to freedom in Canada via the 'underground railway.' Daniel Williams, born in 1858, studied and became a surgeon in Washington D.C., performed the world's first open heart surgery, was appointed head of Freedmans hospital, made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is considered to be one of America’s greatest physicians. Henry Tanner, born in 1859, attended the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, and became a famous painter whose works hang in major museums around the world. Robert Abbott, born in 1870, studied journalism, started his own newspaper, the Chicago Defender, which achieved a huge circulation. Abbott later included seven other papers in his chain, and achieved so many high offices, and had so many honors bestowed upon him, that they are too numerous to mention. Paul Dunbar, born in 1872, became a world famous poet, novelist, and even songwriter who was widely published, and had many schools and buildings named after him. W.C. Handy, born in 1873, became world famous as "The Father of the Blues," writing such blues numbers as "St. Louis Blues," "Memphis Blues," and host of others. Handy toured the world, played in all major theatres, and has many parks, schools and buildings named after him. Charles Spaulding, born in 1874, became chef executive of one of the world’s largest insurance companies. A. Philip Randolph, born in 1889, founded the Sleeping Car Porter's Union, spent his life working in labor activities, and became a national leader of Negro causes. Elijah McCoy invented a steam engine lubricator that was so efficient, that when a different brand was found on a locomotive, the engineer demanded a "Real McCoy," which is where the phrase originated. Ralph Bunche, born in 1904, got his Ph.D. from Harvard, became a full professor at Howard, and after WW II, helped write the charter of the United Nations. Bert Williams was the first black man in the Zeigfield Follies, and became world famous. In 1937, the first black federal judge was appointed. In 1940, black author Richard Wright's "Native Son" was a Book-of-the-Month selection. During WW II, four Merchant Marine ships had black captains who commanded white crewmen, and several ships were named after a black seaman who died heroically in the service. In 1945, a black officer was placed in command of a U.S. military base. In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. In 1985, out of 1250 applicants, black Darryl Hayden of Indianapolis, received the highest test score for fire chief. The chain of Negro achievement is an unbroken one, going down through the ages to today. Others, such as George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Marion Anderson, and Jackie Robinson will be mentioned later, in the "solutions" section of this chapter.

All of the above famous Negroes came from whole families, were taught to work, study, and achieve. All became successful and widely recognized many decades before there were "civil rights" laws, and forced integration.

Our fourth President, John Quincy Adams, after completing his single term as President, returned to government in the House of Representatives for seventeen years. During his eight terms in the House, he was a strong willed abolitionist, a movement that continued until the beginning of the War Between the States. That war didn't solve any racial problems, but decided whether a state could secede or not, which was what that war was about...not slavery.

During that war, soldiers on both sides easily mixed with each other during cease-fire periods, proving it was not a "civil" war. After the cease-fire, they resumed firing at each other, representing their various states. It was indeed a "War Between the States."

I was born, raised, and educated in Washington D.C., and when growing up, public schools were legally segregated. Whites generally didn’t shop, go to a theatre or hotel on "U" St., N.W., and blacks usually didn’t do so on "F" St., N.W., although both areas were open to all races. All races easily mixed in public parks, transportation, and other places. "U" St. was a wonderful shopping and entertainment street, customarily patronized by blacks. Large hotels, several large theatres, clubs, cabarets, and shops by the dozen did very well. Many famous black personalities were the featured entertainers in "U" St. theatres; among them Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, Billie Holiday, and Duke Ellington. Cherner Motor Co. was located on "U" St., and my parents bought a new 1949 Ford from "Uncle Joe Cherner," as his advertising called him in the late 1940's and 50's. "U" St. began its decline in the sixties, when the first civil rights laws were passed, and the Supreme Court decided everything must be integrated. Blacks patronized other places, abandoning their former glamorous "U" St. Until recently, "U" St. has been a total disaster, with boarded up shops, burned buildings, and heavy graffiti. Just completed, is a total restoration of the Lincoln Theatre, located between 12^th & 13^th, on "U" St. The Street may have an excellent future.

I cannot remember crime being a major issue during my childhood days in D.C., even on "U" St., and am certain it was not a major problem anywhere in America in the 30's, 40's, and even 50's. My Dad was a corner druggist for 36 years in D.C.'s Mt. Pleasant section, had colored employees, paid them well, and treated them equally with his white employees. I was never taught racism, hatred, or prejudice along racial lines. In the late 1940's, my parents bought a retirement farm in southern Maryland, 45 miles from D.C., near a town called Prince Frederick. Adjacent farms were owned by both whites and blacks, and I worked in the fields and played with both races when we went there on weekends and in summers. Nothing was further from my thoughts than race hatred. The consequences of the 1960's civil rights legislation hadn’t yet torn America apart. The races were at relative peace with one another.

The term "black" is an abomination, because in the English lexicon, "black" is thought of as bad, and "white" the opposite. I was taught to call Negroes "colored", and it did them no disservice. Now it is "African-Americans," a term inferring that blacks came from Africa in the immediate past. The last slaves were imported from Africa in 1808! 99% of American blacks today are descended from those imported before 1808, and due to racial intermixing, they are a beautiful brown rather than the jet black of a true African Negro. Today's blacks are no more "African-Americans," than I am a "Dutch-American." We all are Americans. In this book, I will call Negroes "blacks," even though I disagree with the label. The consequences of the names "black," and "African American," brand them as either foreign or bad. The oldest and most influential organization in America dealing with racial matters is the NAACP, or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, not for the advancement of "blacks" or "African Americans," (NAAB, or NAAAM).

Look at the news or TV magazine programs. Read the papers, and look at the pictures. Statistics say 50% of the crime in America is committed by just 2% of the population...which are black males between the ages of 15 and 35. On ABC’s "20-20" on April 8 1994, a piece on mail theft by postal employees was detailed and illustrated with film shot from concealed cameras. In 100% of the cases shown, the perpetrators were black. On Connie Chung’s "Eye To Eye" of April 21 1994, the feature story was about child molestation of all types, including rape, murder, brutal beatings, burnings, and a hideous assortment of the most unspeakable crimes against innocent children. Blacks perpetrated 100% of the cases shown. The following evening, April 22 1994, on "20-20," Barbara Walters got an exclusive interview with Black Muslim head, Louis Farrakhan. During the interview, Walters almost lost her cool when replies to her questions indicated that Black Muslims blame almost everyone, (Jews, whites, government at all levels, Asians, etc.) except themselves, for their low social level, high crime and drug use, single parent families, and abnormally high rates of alcoholism. The hatred that poured from Farrakhan's mouth was tempered very nicely, as opposed to his public rantings and ravings. He blamed everyone for the black's plight...but themselves.

On June 21 1996, also on ABC's "20-20," a story dealt with an Atlantic City New Jersey policeman dressing up in civilian clothes, pretending to be a helpless drunk, walking the streets of that city in a rather unsteady condition. The brave officer is backed up with video cameras, tape recorders, and plenty of manpower to capture the assailants. He has plenty of scars to show for his bravado. The Atlantic City police have a 100% conviction rate using a decoy. All muggers shown were black, in a city with a 50-50-population ratio. Various black civil rights organizations shrieked that the police were indulging in abject racism and entrapment, because the criminals are black. It is obvious that if whites were doing the mugging, they would also be caught. The purpose of the Atlantic City Police Department's actions are to catch muggers and make the streets of that eastern gambling capital of America safe, not be racist. The fact that they capture blacks, is because blacks are committing the crime, and are the results, not the purpose.

As of October 1995, one out of three black males between the ages of 20 and 29 were either in prison, on probation, or under some type of parole or correctional action. A survey commissioned by Democrat ex-mayor of New York Ed Koch, showed that in 1991, in Baltimore Maryland, "56% of young black males aged 18-35 were in jail or prison, on probation or parole, awaiting trial or sentencing, or being sought on arrest warrants." In December 1996, a rape-sexual molestation scandal broke out at the Aberdeen Maryland army base, and over 4,000 calls resulted, complaining about similar treatment administered by drill sergeants and officers at other bases. The Aberdeen perpetrators all appeared to be black males. Is it any wonder that Americans of all races become suspicious when confronted by young black males?

Blacks have excelled in all fields, not just athletics. As mentioned already, black surgeons, academicians, scientists, writers, and entrepreneurs have justly earned their place of fame in history books. Today, increasing numbers of blacks excel, and are a credit to their race. Black achievers almost always come from stable two parent families who teach hard work, study, and goal setting. It is no accident that Asian children in America are often superior achievers to native whites. Their parents taught them to set goals, work hard, study, learn the language correctly, and achieve. The consequence of stable two parent families raising their children to study, work, and be responsible; regardless of race...is success. According to 1996 census figures, 80% of black children lived in single family, female dominated households. They are usually on welfare, surrounded by non-achievers, and will surely grow up to be a drag on society. Statistics are against them, because they have poor role models to emulate.

The consequences of generous attempts to help blacks are that they have been harmed, rather than helped. The white man’s 'help' has mostly been to open the money faucets of the federal government to give aid to blacks that are poor. Additional 'help' has been to furnish public housing, aid to dependent children, health care, and other aids. This generosity...using taxes collected from others...has had a negative effect on the recipients. I am old enough to have witnessed it first hand. When a segment of the population is deemed to need 'help,' it is an indication of inferiority. When a train can't make it up a hill, and a 'helper' engine is called out to give it a boost, it is obvious that the train's locomotive is not capable of pulling the hill by itself. When a student receives help from a tutor, it is indicative of that student's being deficient in a subject, and help is called for to allow him to pass. The very word 'help' is indicative of someone or something in a bad situation, and without power or ability. When you call the police or fire department for 'help,' it means you are incapable of helping yourself. There is nothing wrong with that! This paragraph on the word 'help' is basic and obvious to a logical person, but it has escaped the notice of the various well meaning, munificent politicians and bureaucrats, whose 'help' has resulted in not permanently helping anyone, but defaming them, labeling them as weak, powerless, or inept, and even making them so. In addition to not helping, it has caused race hatred and virtual bankruptcy for America. Before the 'help', the statistics are amazing. In 1940, 87% of blacks lived below the poverty line, and by 1960, before the 'help,' that figure had been reduced to 47% and was still going down. Blacks were helping themselves, in other words, and doing a fine job of it.

'Help,' 'aid,' or 'assistance,' when applied to a group of people or a race, rather than an individual who may need it, denigrates them, causing them to become defensive and angry, worsening their situation. Racism, other than which exists normally between different groups or nationalities, was not a real problem in America until harsh civil rights laws went on the books, any more than drugs were a problem until anti-drug laws were legislated, as is proven in chapter 18 of this book. The term "racism" was rarely used or even thought of, until it was made illegal and the races were force fed to each other. I was a 29-year-old, politically aware, intelligent, adult, when the first civil rights laws were passed. Before these laws, believe me, there were few problems. Immediately after these laws were passed, America began to lose its cities. After the assassination of Martin Luther King, fires and riots erupted in many major cities, gutting thousands of buildings, and causing billions of 1960's dollars worth of damage. I watched in horror as my old shopping neighborhood in Washington D.C., 14^th St. N.W. went up in flames, and with it the theatres and shops I had used since childhood. The consequences of politicians legislating equalization, and the courts upholding their erroneous laws, was carnage and destruction in America not experienced since that most awful of wars a hundred years earlier. The consequences of civil rights laws cannot be over stated, and the observation is not a racist one. If American history is examined back to the early nineteen sixties and before, a researcher will discover that racism was virtually unheard of for one hundred years. Things that seem to be so righteous, often have dire consequences. Since the nineteen sixties, each year sees another civil rights bill passed, which actually increases the distance between the races. The Founders never wrote "civil rights" into the Constitution, any more than they wrote "wealth redistribution," which will be covered in the next chapter, but the two are related as far as race relations are concerned. No one likes to be robbed. I was mugged and left for dead by 3 teenage black males, and it took years for my anger and outrage to wear off, if indeed it ever will. It is ever more apparent that the good intentions of politicians and bureaucrats are expensive and misplaced, because the consequences have helped no one, and harmed everyone.

Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson wrote in 1954, objecting to "Brown Vs Board of Education," that, "Negro progress under segregation has been spectacular, and, tested by the pace of history, his race is one of the swiftest and most dramatic advances in the annals of man."

It is tragic to see people who have not achieved, are poor, sick, or hungry. It pains us all to see human tragedies. The term "tough love" has been urged to straighten out children who have gone amok, and the results are amazing to see. When anyone receives "SFN," (something for nothing) which blacks have received in generous amounts for over 35 years, the results are readily observable. Virtual destruction of a race by loss of incentive, being branded as weak, begging for help, stupid, needing to be bussed to white schools to raise achievement levels, and a host of other 'medicines,' that have all but killed the patient. While it may not seem possible to anyone under the age of fifty, blacks owned homes, achieved, earned decent incomes, educated themselves, bought cars, farms, furniture, food, and paid hospital bills just like everyone else, before they were 'helped' by politicians. The consequences of this 'help,' have been almost mortal to the Negro race in America.

In the past decade, Hispanics from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and similar countries, have massively immigrated into America, illegally and legally, and seem to have been irresistibly drawn to America's welfare state by the hundreds of thousands. They have moved into public housing, partaken of every welfare scheme available, and are now descending into the same condition as the blacks. In areas where the majority eating at the welfare trough are Hispanic, the level of racism directed towards them has equaled or exceeded that directed towards blacks, which has happened in Los Angeles, plus metropolitan areas of Florida and Texas. Color of skin is not responsible for racism.

Koreans, Chinese, Viet Namese, Indians, and Japanese immigrating into America have generally refused to accept welfare. Koreans especially, have moved into black ghettos, bought properties, fixed them up, opened shops, and succeeded...only to be hated by the blacks. The consequence of Korean success has been hatred of them by their customers. During the Los Angeles riots, which followed the first Rodney King jury verdict, blacks and Hispanics especially targeted Korean shops for destruction.

Now we have reverse racism being inculcated into the minds of our vulnerable youth. In colleges and public schools of America, "diversity educators" are teaching white youth to hate themselves as "evil, white, blue eyed, racists," and being taught that whites are cold, logical and distant, (ice people) while blacks are supposedly warm, intuitive, empathetic, and spontaneous. Long before the Holocaust actually took place, Hitler used similar language and racist inculcation to convince the German youth that Jews were the enemy, terming them "class enemies." As if it weren't evil enough to teach whites to hate themselves, these frauds also teach other races to hate whites. It must be obvious to sane people that blacks have as much hatred for whites as whites supposedly do for blacks. Years ago, we invited a black employee of ours to a party. She brought her child who was about the same age as our children. In the yard, when our kids tried to play with our employee's boy, he refused, saying he wouldn't play with white kids, as he hated them, as they were from the devil. Their ages were eight and nine!

SOLUTIONS

The racial problems in America will not be easily solved, but a few cautionary steps have already been made by blacks who have begun to realize that the civil rights and Affirmative Action laws, rules, regulations, and bureaucracies have been an insult to them, fomenting hatred, rather than making everyone love one another. The contrast is easily seen if a comparison is made between Martin Luther King on one side, and Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Marion Anderson, Rosa Parks, and even Charlie Pride on the other. Millions of Negroes have innovated, invented, and succeeded beyond their humble beginnings. They have achieved in all fields, ranging from sports, medicine, agriculture, science, music, education, and business, as we have already illustrated, and done it without violence.

One of the first Negroes to succeed by his own efforts was a little known man named Wheeling Gaunt, who was born a slave in 1812 on a Kentucky tobacco plantation. By blacking boots and peddling apples in his spare time, he eventually accumulated $900, with which he bought his freedom, sometime in the 1840's. Continuing to work, he next bought his wife for $500, and then a relative and his son for an additional $700, at which time he crossed the Ohio river and settled near Dayton Ohio in 1862. Remember, all this was before the War Between the States. In Ohio, he bought land, and successfully farmed, dying childless in 1894. He left land to a black college, a black church, and asked in his will that baked goods and flour be distributed to widows each year thereafter, which is still being done every Christmas season. There is a 9 acre "Gaunt Park" in Yellow Springs Ohio, and revenues from the swimming pool, baseball diamond, and other activities are used for the annual "Municipal Widow’s Fund," which now distributes flour and sugar to all widows, rich or poor, black or white, as per Gaunt's will.

Booker T. Washington was one of the greatest American Negroes that ever lived. He should be the hero of blacks, not King. Washington founded the all black Tuskegee Institute, which has turned out educated, intelligent, achieving blacks for over a hundred years. Washington's counsel for his fellow Negroes was to learn skills, work hard, and get an education, as they are far more important than protesting.

George Washington Carver died in 1943, and was an absolute genius. An agricultural chemist, he worked to improve the South's economy during his entire life, teaching soil improvement, crop rotation, and diversity. Carver discovered many new uses for the peanut, sweet potato, and soybean, plus he devised products that could be made from cotton wastes. The beloved Carver was the first Negro to be hosted at the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1901.

Walter O'Malley placed Negro Jackie Robinson on the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team at Ebbits Field on April 15, 1947, breaking the color barrier long before race riots and endless protests. (A 1950 film, titled "The Jackie Robinson Story", features Jackie playing himself, and is a wonderful film. Rent it on tape or watch for it on TV.) Ten weeks later, the American League's Cleveland Indians put Larry Doby on their team. There were some outraged whites, thrown beer bottles, and heckling when Robinson and Doby began playing major league baseball, but the prejudice ceased when the bigots saw how skilled they were. Robinson maintained an incredible 311 batting average for ten years. That was the end of racial segregation as far as sports are concerned. The blending of the two races in all fields and pursuits could have occurred gradually and without violence. Violence has rarely helped any situation, only hardened both sides, as it has with race.

In the early fifties, Marian Anderson was refused the right to sing in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall, owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Rather than marching, protesting, and picketing; on Easter Sunday 1939, she went to the Lincoln Memorial, and among other numbers sang, "My Country Tis Of Thee," as whites instantly realized they had made a tragic mistake. She was the first Negro to sing in the Metropolitan Opera. That was the end of segregation in music. Today, the races mix with ease in the Metropolitan Opera, or any other musical event, anywhere in America, regardless of the style. Charlie Pride has the deepest respect of the country music set, which originated and still holds forth in the South, and he is as black as they come. It was all done without violence.

Also in the early fifties, Rosa Parks wearied of having to sit at the rear of the bus. She defied the "Jim Crow" laws and sat in front, at which point she was promptly arrested. The case ended up in the Supreme Court, and without violence, blacks and whites had defeated the horrid segregation laws in public transit and other places such as restaurants and theatres. Of course there were hard feelings, cursing, and difficulties, but it happened without legislation and civil rights laws. The cities didn't burn, and hundreds weren't shot, gassed and pummeled with high-pressure water hoses.

Malcolm X was murdered, hated white people, and is no favorite of mine, but he had it right when he said, "The black man has to start correcting his own material, moral, and spiritual defects and evils. The black man needs to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction, and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values."

King, on the other hand, achieved virtually nothing in life other than becoming an undeserved martyr. Besides being shot, cheating on his wife, stirring up hatred and violence everywhere he went, coining a few interesting phrases, and making a few eloquent speeches, his life was one great public relations scheme, rather than one of accomplishment. He plagiarized his doctrinal thesis, and even plagiarized his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which had been given virtually verbatim in 1952 at a Republican Convention by black preacher Archibald Carey. He made extremely poor grades at Boston University. King's idea was to march, protest, screech, and sing "We Shall Overcome," and acquire "rights" by law and edict, rather than earning admiration and respect by hard work and achievement. The more trouble he started, the more whites hated him. King possibly never did an honest day's work in his life. Everywhere he went, trouble, violence, and arson followed almost automatically. For some strange reason, we have a national holiday celebrating King's birthday, while Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Marian Anderson go unnoticed by those who should emulate them. As a further insult, the Lincoln and Washington Birthday holidays have been combined into "President's Day." The Washingtons, Carvers, Williams, Robinsons, Bunches, Handys, and Parks never caused cities to burn, and weren't shot dead by an assassin. I hope "President's Day" doesn't include Bill Clinton!

The Martin Luther King holiday was approved by a 78-22 vote in the U.S. Senate. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina said, "If its passage in the Senate had been by secret ballot, it would have received not 20 votes." This holiday is the only paid holiday honoring an individual other than a former president. The FBI investigation of King and his fishy affiliations and actions has been sealed...all 845 pages of them...till the year 2027.

Booker T. Washington said in 1896, "...(we must) endure wrong...withstand temptations...economize...acquire and use skills...compete...succeed in commerce...disregard the superficial for the real, and appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple. This is the passport to all that is best in the life of our Republic, and the Negro must possess it, or be debarred."

Martin Luther King said in 1967, "Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means watching your kids grow up with the clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and being hated for being an orphan."

Notice: Not one phrase or sentence in King's speech is literal or accurate, nor does even one word mention work, education, perseverance, or success. Only, 'poor us, we are black, and no one likes us.' That speech epitomizes King's attitudes, which have spread over the width and breadth of America, to both black and white. A logical person will realize that these are simple polemics, designed to inflame, rather than help. The world hates a whining, moaning, crybaby, but loves a man who works, and when he fails, gets up and tries again. The Negroes' racial problems in America can easily be solved by using Washington, Carver, Williams, Bunche, Handy, Anderson, or Robinson as their role models, and not Martin Luther King.

'Poor me, I am black,' doesn’t cut it any more, after hundreds of billions have been spent hocking America for generations to come, in the absurd effort to help those who would rather march, protest, and feel sorry for themselves, rather than trying, studying, staying off welfare, ceasing endless illegitimacy, and a host of other commonalties currently peculiar to the Negro race today. Millions of blacks have helped themselves, made it, and are trying to tell the rest it can be done. They need to be the examples, not King.

The Hispanics' problems can be solved in the same manner. Skip the welfare, learn English, and learn it correctly. Acquire an education, work hard, stay honest, clean, and trustworthy. Americans are not unjust. We are the fairest people on earth. We just don’t like slobs, filth, dishonesty, laziness, and having our money stolen…to support you. Support yourself!

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