Kansas City Star Columnist Lewis Diuguid covers a lot of ground in his latest column that's certainly worth a read . . .
Citing a local historian . . . The column notes . . .
Black people in leadership positions throughout Kansas City.
Will African-Americans feel rejected in the unlikely event that President Obama loses the election?
Are we on the brink of losing progress?
Good questions and a MUST READ column.
Citing a local historian . . . The column notes . . .
Black people in leadership positions throughout Kansas City.
Will African-Americans feel rejected in the unlikely event that President Obama loses the election?
Are we on the brink of losing progress?
Good questions and a MUST READ column.
Here is a quote from the local black historian whom Mr. Diuguid interviewed for this article.
ReplyDelete“If Obama is not re-elected, 75 percent of blacks will feel we have been rejected,” Mattox said. Anger could follow.
A pre emptive de facto excuse for more violence from the violent African American sub culture if the democratic process here in America has, in African American views, a negative outcome.
Threats, intimidation and violence are part and parcel of any and all interactions with African Americans.
Thanks for the warning Lou, but we already knew what to expect.
On the brink of losing progress? Maybe in the political arena but as far as black culture as a whole they have been losing progress for at least 10 years. Where black people live are becoming worse, not better. Ghettos are more, not less. Dropout rates are worse as kids who shouldn't have kids have kids themselves. People with no interest in education will very rarely become successful. For every millionaire 9th grade education rapper there are a million welfare receiving high school dropouts. Dealing drugs does not come with a good retirement plan.
ReplyDeleteDoors of opportunity have been open for many years, but you have to work hard once you get through the door, not just think you can coast because of your race.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for all the black "leaders" in Kansas City: Being elected or appointed to some position doesn't make you a leader. It's what you actually accomplish that matters. And by that criterion, not much is going on.
School District, KCMO city government, and public safety are all stuck in the same losing status quo, and the east side gets worse every day.
In fact, where are the leaders who might make a difference?
@ "Doors of opportunity". - You are right on target. There's this sense of entitlement because a person is Black. These Black folks have in essence f@cked it up for evryone else. KC politics is nothing more than a popularity contest; not a contest of credentials or ability. I will never vote for Sly James, Cleaver loses my vote this year and the jury is still out on Forte. Black or not... You will earn my vote. May or may not be significant but Im not being generous with my vote just because of skin color, #ShowMeProgress. - so far it's MIA
DeleteI realize it's Black History month and all that, and Lewis Diuguid has to write SOMETHING, but my reaction when I read this column was perhaps some of Mr. Diuguid's cancer cells had escaped and migrated to his brain. The people mentioned in the column have a right to be offended by it. Is it just possible that Kansas City, which is still majority white, elects competent leaders who just happen to be black rather than "black leaders?" (We were, after all, wise enough not to elect Alvin "Let's-have-a-vigil" Brooks in 2007 although we wound up with the equally disastrous Funkies.) And is it possible that the nation, which is still majority white, elected Obama because we believed he was the mre competent of the candidates, and he just happened to be black?
ReplyDeleteIf we remember Obama's story, his mother was white and his father, who was never a part of the President's life, was Kenyan--he was not a product of slave descendants. Further, Obama was reared mostly by his mother's family and not in a ghetto and probably not even around many other black people. Some self-appointed black "leaders" during the primaries in 2008 accused him of not being "sufficiently black."
If Obama (who won with a significant majority in 2008 despite Mr. Diuguid's predicting that he couldn't win) loses in the fall, blacks can feel as angry as they want, but we all have to live with whoever wins.
Right! President Obama is NOT a descendent of slaves. So, maybe the self-proclaimed Black leaders of KC don't realize that fact. Prez only has Black tendencies... He prefers Black women, loves basketball and can sing; but he's far from the traditional Black. That's why I voted for him. This year is questionable... The world has changed. Black people are no longer Black. Instead they are Black-Hispanic, Black-White, Black-Other. The black race is as much of a mixed bag as the rest of the world. There is no aggregate perspective. Folks who aged through the 60's, are out of touch. They sit at their own dinner table with a clear image of a multicultural expansion; yet they're still caught up in the civil rights movement. Listen up... There are no more Martin Luther King, Jrs in the world and there really isn't a need for one!
DeleteI don't mind if you want to smoke crack, git drunk on drank, fuck like dogs and kill each otha....just stay in yo own cess pool and quit fuckin up my neighborhood!
ReplyDeleteNot cool injecting cancer references. The guy is stupid enough without giving cancer a bad name . . .
ReplyDeleteFunny but not ha ha.
ReplyDelete@7:49 Actually whites are NOT the majority in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Counting all of the minority groups, minority groups compromise 53 percent of Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteGood old Lewis certainly likes to keep score of blacks vs. whites. He is what is wrong in journalism.
ReplyDeleteIn short, he is the worst kind of racist.
10:15's is right.
ReplyDeleteAll of the good old victimization-entitlement-intimidation-extortion crap that folks like Grant, Brooks, the revs, Adams, and the rest of the crowd constantly spout to justify criminal behavior and their own shaking down government and businesses for their own benefit is the same sad line that Diuguid constantly tries to sell.
Drive around the east side and you'll see how successful this '60s crap has been.
And deteriorating every single day. I know; let's ladle more of your money into the same folks' hands.
Citadel Plaza anyone?
10:12: This is from Wickipedia:
ReplyDeleteAccording to the 2010 census, the racial composition of Kansas City was as follows:
White: 59.2% (Non-Hispanic Whites: 54.9%)
Black or African American: 29.2%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 10.0%
Some other race: 4.5%
Two or more races: 3.2%
Asian: 2.5%
Native American: 0.5%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.2%
Apparently, to Lewis Diuguid, if you are black, but conservative, you cannot be a role model. Clarence Thomas comes to mind, but I guess he's just an Uncle Tom!
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