Ah, the hopey changey thing never seems to change…
Describe your dream, provide no freaking clue how is to be achieved, fail spectacularly,
then blame others.
Rinse and repeat, until you run out of other people's money…
I had to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King jr's "I have a dream" speech when I
was in government schools – repeatedly, every year, it seemed.
Unfortunately, I was already reading real philosophy, so I immediately pegged it for
the dangerous sophistry that it was, and remains.
I know, I know, it is considered one of the crowning achievements of American oratory
– but now, so many decades later, aiming at a dream seems to have landed us all in
a nightmare, and perhaps we should take a little bit of time to figure out what the
hell went so wrong.
Here's the first clue: Dr. King's speech is called "I have a dream," not "I have
a plan."
I don't care about people's dreams.
Be honest, you don't care about people's dreams either.
I do care about facts and reason and evidence and plans – reality, not dreaming.
Dr. King's speech was not a call to action, but an incitement to fantasy.
Imagine this - you are a seasoned, sceptical investor, and I stand before you and proclaim:
I have a dream that one day a company will exist that is very profitable, and very efficient,
and serves its customers needs wonderfully, and has no competition, and will be judged
as a most excellent company, and lots of people will want to work there, and the people who
work there will be tall, and handsome, and pretty, but there will be no dalliances – in
fact this company will be so virtuous there will be no need for a human resources department
– this company will be so virtuous and productive that there will be no need for government
lobbying of any kind.
This company will be so virtuous that never once will a lawyers frame darken the golden
gates that lead to the climate-controlled paradise of its inner sanctum's.
I have a dream that the money shall be rolling in, verily like barrels filled with gold,
and all shall partake and all shall rejoice and all shall be merriment and passion and
joy and productivity.
I have a dream that all the investors in this company will stand before this company and,
starting with a slow clap and rising to a shirt-shredding cheer of exultation, shall
cry with one voice to the very heavens above: "Rich at last, rich at last, thank God Almighty
we are rich at last!"
How much money are you going to give me?
$1 million? $2 million? $100 million?
After the first sentence, you would have pushed the button under your desk that calls security.
Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech was not a solution, but a set up.
Let's look at it in more detail…
He complained about slavery – a government program.
He complained about segregation – a government program.
He complained about Jim Crow – a government program.
Perhaps it takes a bit of distance to see it, but in the speech, there was a significant
amount of complaining about government programs.
In fact, the American government has treated blacks so badly that you'd think there'd
be some significant opposition to trusting the government, and relying on government
programs, to solve complex social problems.
Dr. King said this: "I have a dream that one day on the red
hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be
able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
Ahhh, slavery.
There is this notion that continually referencing American slavery is somehow kind or compassionate
or helpful - I'm telling you, it is one of the greatest disasters in America, both
in the past, and in the present.
Come here, follow me on this, it is very important – imagine if 1-2% of Blacks were criminals
150 years ago – none now, just 1-2% 150 years ago.
Now, imagine that I said this meant that all blacks were criminals in the present, and
owed nonblacks reparations for the criminality of a few blacks 150 years ago.
What would you say to me?
You would say to me that the degree of irrationality in my statement could scarcely be comprehended,
let alone measured.
A tiny percentage of black criminals 150 years ago being used to smear all blacks in the
present?
First of all, taking the negative behaviour of a tiny minority in a racial group and extrapolating
it to everyone in that group is the very definition of racism.
Secondly, the sins of the fathers are not visited upon the children – the evil that
men do dies with them.
Thirdly, moral standards have shifted enormously over the past 150 years – judging the past
by the standards of the present is a fairly useless exercise; it's like having a hobby
of damning medieval doctors for not using laser surgery to correct eyesight.
Here's the thing, this is what I am talking about: at the height of American slavery (which
rested on African slavery – black Africans captured the slaves and sold them to the whites),
about 1-2% of Americans owned slaves.
1-2%.
(And some of those slaveowners were blacks.
One study has reported that 28% of free blacks owned slaves - far higher than the percentage
of free whites who owned slaves.
Also, 2/3 of whites came over in bondage, referred to as slaves.
Throughout the 1600s, white slaves outnumbered black slaves, and half of the white slaves
died before achieving freedom.
Also, the vast majority of slaves were shipped to Brazil, is anyone railing against Brazilians?)
Blaming whites now for the legal actions of 1-2% of whites and blacks 150 years ago is
the equivalent of saying all blacks should be blamed for the actions of a few black criminals
150 years ago.
I'd say – pretty racist, right?
Let me break it down for you even further - let's jump in our time machine and set
it for the here and now.
Currently, in the US, 20% of black men with a high school education have criminal records.
Would it be fair to say that all black men with a high school education are criminals?
Of course not, that would be racist.
You see how that works?
Going from 20% to 100% is wrong, it's immoral, it's racist.
It is somehow less racist to go from "1-2% of whites and blacks were bad 150 years ago"
to "100% of whites are bad now?"
Please – tell me, what the hell do I have to do with slavery?
My ancestors were Irish, many of them were captured and sold to Middle Eastern slave
traders.
They were oppressed by the British, starved in the potato famine, you name it.
Other of my ancestors fought to end slavery worldwide, one of the greatest triumphs and
honours of European civilization.
Did the Jews end slavery?
Hell no!
Did the Muslims end slavery?
The Buddhists?
The Zorastrians?
No, it was mostly British Protestants who ended the universal curse of human slavery
that had been going on for about 150,000 years.
White people ended slavery.
It cost untold blood and treasure to do so.
No other group can take credit for one of the most massive and momentous advances in
basic human morality.
White people ended slavery.
Who now gets the most blame for slavery?
No good deed goes unpunished, right?
Am I rich because of slavery?
No!
Everyone had slaves, all throughout history – slavery destroyed economic growth by reducing
the need for mechanization!
There was no industrial revolution in the ancient world because they used slaves to
do the work, so rich people didn't want to invest in machinery, because that would
reduce the value of their slaves.
The industrial revolution occurred in a post slavery society, it couldn't have happened
any other way.
Slavery kept us all starving.
Ending slavery is why you can eat too much!
American blacks have the highest standard of living of any black population on the entire
planet - the per capita income of American blacks is currently 20 to 50 times higher
than the African blacks in the countries that originally sold slaves to the Europeans!
See, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, and that dream involved using the government
to steal a staggering amount of money from nonblacks, and give it to blacks.
Hmm, using the power of the state to transfer unearned wealth, why did that seem so familiar?
1966, speaking to his staff, King declared: "We are now making demands that will cost
the nation something.
You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about
billions of dollars.
…[W]e are treading in difficult waters, because it really means that we are saying
that something is wrong … with capitalism.
There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic
socialism."
Hmmm.
Taking people's productivity by force…
Using the power of the state to strip people of the products of their labour…
Why does that seem so familiar..?
Dr. King was a socialist, an anticapitalist, perhaps even a useful tool of the murderous
Marxists.
He was a serial adulterer, a plagiarist, all that, I've got a whole presentation on Dr.
King you can have a look at below - and he was, most dangerously, a dreamer who dreamt
of using violence to achieve his ends.
Dreams plus guns, what could go wrong?
Arguably the most famous line in his most famous speech is:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
But here's the thing Dr. King – maybe, just maybe, people are judging the contents
of character, of community, of the fruits of massive welfare dependency and single motherhood
and a drug and thug culture, the insane levels of criminality within the black community.
I've generally found that if you act better, people judge you more favourably.
I'd really like to be judged by the content of my character, rather than the colour of
my skin.
I had nothing to do with slavery, I have fought against enslavement all my life (My most famous
video is called 'The Story of Your Enslavement') – how about judging me by my actions, rather
than my race?
I recently had a conversation with the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, and Rev. Peterson said
that people don't judge race, they judge behaviour.
He wants the black community as a whole to do well, so do I, so does every decent person
on the planet.
Wouldn't that be wonderful, amazing, fantastic?
Dr. King talked about using government to forcibly transfer billions of dollars to the
black community – in reality, the government has forcibly transferred not billions, but
hundreds of billions of dollars to the black community, and things are in many ways much
worse than before his famous speech.
The black family has virtually disintegrated – black marital stability was stronger among
blacks than whites as recently as the 1920s.
Black progression into the middle class was stronger after the Second World War than it
is now.
I am literally haunted by Dr. Thomas Sowell's last column – he recently retired the age
of 86: "With all the advances of blacks over the
years, nothing so brought home to me the social degeneration in black ghettos like a visit
to a Harlem high school some years ago.
"When I looked out the window at the park across the street, I mentioned that, as a
child, I used to walk my dog in that park.
Looks of horror came over the students' faces, at the thought of a kid going into
the hell hole that park had become in their time.
"When I have mentioned sleeping out on a fire escape in Harlem during hot summer nights,
before most people could afford air-conditioning, young people have looked at me like I was
a man from Mars.
But blacks and whites alike had been sleeping out on fire escapes in New York since the
19th century.
They did not have to contend with gunshots flying around during the night."
Here's a quote: "Even in the antebellum era, when slaves
often weren't permitted to wed, most black children lived with a biological mother and
father.
During Reconstruction and up until the 1940s, 75% to 85% of black children lived in two-parent
families.
Today, more than 70% of black children are born to single women."
As the economist Dr. Walter E Williams has said:
"The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn't do, what Jim Crow
couldn't do, what the harshest racism couldn't do.
And that is to destroy the black family."
Dr. King had a dream, that untold wealth could be taken by the government and given to the
black community.
He had the dream.
We live the nightmare.
And we need to wake up.
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