Who is to blame for the Plight of Minorities?

There is no doubt that minorities, in particular African-Americans, have never been afforded the same opportunities as many other persons. So who is to blame for this plight of minorities? There is plenty of blame to go round and this is discussed in my book Defending Freedom of Contract. That said, in some cases minorities have actually been afforded better opportunities such as with diversity or affirmative action policies and One Person, One Vote policies.

Since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s over 22 million dollars has been spent on fighting poverty yet the number of impoverished remains unchanged. 22 trillion dollars should be enough lift millions out of poverty unfortunately over 70% of the money is used by the government to create government agencies to fight poverty and the money does not go to the people in need. The war on poverty and liberal policies have failed to change these demographics.

Education failures such as forced integration and Robin hood policies. Every person in the country should be allowed to go to the school of their choosing and not schools that government dictates for better integration results. Throwing money at failing schools never works because money is just one of thousands variables. More money but the same educators, curriculum, and administrators and the school will continue to fail.

The civil rights movement of the 60s and better voting rights led to a shift in minority representation in elected offices. However, blacks being represented by blacks did little change the structure of communities and opportunities for blacks. For instance, why are black schools run by black administrators and local officials failing many students. Why are liberal run cities by black officials have such high crime and poverty rates? Most crime against blacks is by blacks, not whites.

Social justice led by white people with guilt is not helping the situation. In fact, it is making things worse. Feeling sorry for someone and throwing money at a problem does very little to correct the problem. Guilt places all the blame on Whites and leaves no responsibility in the process to blacks to better help themselves.

It may surprise many, but since cases such as Baker v. Carr, there has been a shift in poverty and education according to the Department of Agriculture. In fact, more persons (higher percentage) live in poverty and lack education in rural America and not urban America. The reason for this is because urban areas have better representation in state governments and therefore receive a much higher percentage of tax revenues. Diversity policies are also part of the reason for trend to disenfranchise rural America.

Progressive welfare policies of placing Native Americans on reservations and keeping African-Americans segregated to urban areas has been detrimental. Welfare provides these individuals enough money to survive but to keep them impoverished. They have become reliant on government assistance and handouts. It is enough to win crooked politicians votes. Do progressives really want blacks to succeed. I do not think so because the more successful they become the less likely they are to support Democrats.

Sure racism exists and part of the problem. However, it is small part of the problem. As long as racism is to blame then the all the other reasons for the plight of minorities will be overlooked and ignored