Until we each, as adults, individually take responsibility for ourselves we will be stuck in the codependent triangle of persecutor, victim, rescuer … all coming from the neurotic need to control others through our victimhood, through rescuing (the left), through persecution (the man). Enough already. The two giggling black women who were rejoicing when Obama was elected because now they would get Obama money are part of the problem, not part of the solution. There IS NO OBAMA MONEY! If you work and pay taxes, it is YOUR MONEY! Start educating your brothers and sisters.

I graduated from an “integrated” Catholic girls high school in downtown Los Angeles in 1960 when white consciousness was being raised about the immorality of racism. There was no welfare state. None of us were “rich” … all our families were one paycheck away from not eating. We didn’t think we were poor, either. We didn’t think we were victims. We were expected to succeed or fail on our own merits. The straight A students were black, hispanic, asian, white. The class officers were black, hispanic, asian, white. An equal number of blacks, hispanics, asians, and whites went on to college. Can I tell you how lucky I feel that I was born and raised before the mentality of entitlement took hold and ABSOLUTELY RUINED the civil rights movement.

Let’s teach the next generation to stop expecting someone else to fish for them. Let’s teach them to fish for themselves. Stop the insanity.

One final point. James Madison, one of the founders of the constitution was the leader in creating the three party system, and the bicameral system of congress precisely because of CONFLICT. Debate on the process of law lead to incremental change, which stabilized the government.

Mr. Clingman, if your assertion above is true, then whites would have self-destructed long ago. Have you seen the live debates in Britain, where those guys go back and forth like it is a snapping contest in the hood?

How about the historical debate in this country between the right and the left, between labor and management.

Conflict is inherent in any group that has a diverse way of viewing the world. We are no exception.

We hate it when we are lumped all into one group, yet when we have strong and intelligent disagreements people scream “The sky is falling for black folks, they disagree!!”

1st we have been on the bottom of every statistical category since we were brought over. So nothing new, you can’t use the current situation to define that.

2nd we have never been a single minded group ever. We now just have the capacity to have our disagreement more visual. I have no problem with that.

I don’t mind rabid disagreement. That is what democracy is for. To assume that somehow being a single minded group is the best for us is dumb. Innovation occurs through competition, conflict, AND collaboration, not just collaboration.

The question for each of these different groups of that disagree is this, do their critiques and ideologies have merit?

The government has set in place a system of generational poverty through its welfare programs which are inhabited mostly by black people.

When people grow up in government homes and get their money from the government, they have little incentive to be creative and work to better themselves. Then they lose track of their identity and lose all drive to make a difference in the world.

It is time to start asking your politicians to scale these social welfare systems back to levels where only those who can’t work because of some kinda of disability can get on them. Then you will start seeing the power of black America again. Barack Obama has actually been one of the worst presidents for black people as he has scaled up the massive amount of welfare which goes to poor people who for the most part don’t need it.

Understand these welfare systems are a form of slavery. They call it generational poverty because once you get into the system, you will stay there, and so will your kids, and possibly their kids unless the country goes so broke we can’t pay for the programs.

Its time for a Ron Paul who wants to reduce the size of government.