Progressives spawned Black Lives Matter: neither care about black lives or blue ones./caption
You know what encourages this Milwaukee riots? The growth of the welfare state. These are underclass behaviors. Seventy percent of the kids born in Milwaukee are born without an engaged father in their life. So I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and say youre not needed. Uncle Sam is going to be the dad hes going to provide for the kids hes going to feed the kids. Uncle Sam has been a horrible father. Uncle Sam does not love these kids. He might keep a little food in their mouths and that is about it. But we all know the importance of an intact family what it can do to shape the behavior of kids." Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke
Sheriff Clarke who is African-American is speaking directly to the abject failure of Lyndon Baines Johnsons wasted 22 trillion on the War on Poverty." Of its damaging consequences he adds:
These progressive policies have hit the black community like a nuclear blast and until we reverse this government dependency thats what creates all of this rioting and it encourages it by the way along with some questionable lifestyle choices."
50 years on LBJs ironically named Great Society policies have destroyed the basis of the nationthe family unitespecially in minority communities. By insidious progressive design a father in the home virtually disqualifies a mother from collecting government assistance. In this way federal programs promoted to help" actually poison societys lifebloodthe heterosexual two parent householdby encouraging men to abandon their children. In actuality these helpful" measures have subsidized and spawned whole generations of illegitimate children in broken impoverished single-parent homes with little or no male influence.
Since the onset of these Democratic policies in the mid-1960s illegitimacy nationwide stood at 7.7 percent; for Afro-Americans 25. Today by comparison out-of-wedlock births for blacks are over 72 percent; Hispanics over 50 percent and whites (from 3 percent in 1960) to 36 percent at present. So in essence the State via broken homes and a failed progressive public school system raise" children badly. Given the subsistence livingand the lack of moral guidanceis it any wonder that many fall through the cracks into wrongdoing and the criminal justice system? Thus the liberal snare of a school-to-prison pipeline in which anyone else (read: whitey) is blamed and individual responsibility for poor choices is never acknowledged. This is precisely why Sheriff Clarke advocates soul-searching reflection:
Until the black community does a self-evaluation and until they begin to self-criticize about some of the lifestyle choices they are making this bad stuff is going to continue to fester."
From decades of despair comes this generation of acting out disaffected youths with no stake in the American Dream. So this faceless lawless mob populates todays Black Lives Matter movement. For them everything is burn baby burn": in Ferguson MO; Baltimore MD and most recently in Milwaukee WI. One for example will not find them assisting residents in catastrophically flooded Baton Rogue. One outspoken voice speaking Mr. Clarkes unvarnished truth is Charlene Realegeno-Molina who said:
What is BLM doing for Louisiana? Yall are good at getting together to protest well why havent yall gotten together to help out? I guess BLM only when convenient."
Despite their Orwellian name immoral Black Lives Matter doesnt care about life (of any shade black or blue). America remains a vulcanized melting pot where cultural differences in modern times have been respected under the color-blind righteousness of law. American society either rises on the basis of MLKs advocacy of individual character or falls under the jackbooted heel of anarchist mob violence.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.