Lives of All Blacks Matter

What is “Lives of All Blacks Matter”

The group Black Lives Matter (BLM) is not about solving issues in the black community. It is a Marxist based group that promotes racism and wants to overthrow the US government. Our new group, “Lives of All Blacks Matter” is being formed to work to diminish black on black crime, black joblessness in the inner cities, lack of fathers and families to raise black children, the promotion of school choice, vouchers and charter schools, cooperation with community policing in black communities, to teach the true history of the USA and to bring attention to the teachings of great Black Americans often ignored by school curricula and the media.

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HISTORY

Slavery was brought to America while we were a British Colony. Africans captured Blacks and sold them to Europeans who brought them to America, in a horrible suffering journey, for sale to the colonists. The colonists were not happy being under British rule and decided to revolt and form their own country. In 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, among other things that, ” We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” and that these rights came from God not any government. This was the beginning of a long hard road to freedom and equality for blacks.

George Washington led a rag tag army against the strongest military force in the world. He had many close calls with death. Ultimately, with help from France, the Revolutionary War was won in 1783. Then came the job of forming our new government and writing the Constitution. This document, written by scholarly men, laid the ground work for the end of slavery, although that could not be agreed to at the time. It would not be completely addressed for 85 years. The framers of the Constitution understood that the issue of slavery was a deal breaker at the time and that if it’s elimination was a requirement, there would be no Constitution. For the apportionment of congress Southern slave states wanted slaves counted in the census. The abolitionists of the Northern free states wanted to reduce the power of the Southern slave states. So a compromise was agreed to that slaves would count as 2/3 of person. This reduced the number of congressional seats the slave states would receive. The idea was to give non slave Northern states more power in congress to try to end slavery. Unfortunately congress was not able to end slavery which led to a Civil War to end it.

Of course we acknowledge that slavery was a stain in our country’s history. Slavery was not new to America but had existed since the Roman and Greek empires and even before. The United States is the only country in the world that fought a civil war to end slavery. The republican party was formed in 1854 to stop the spread of slavery. The Southern slave states threatened to leave the union if a Republican was elected president. Six weeks after the Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected the Southern states secession began and the Civil War started soon after in 1861. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation to free the slaves in 1863 during the Civil War, but that was only the beginning. The freed slaves fought with Lincoln’s army against their oppressors. The Union defeated the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed later that year that made the end of slavery the law of the land. Then the 14th amendment gave blacks equal protection under the law. The 15th amendment gave blacks the right to vote in 1870 five years after the end of the war.

Unfortunately Lincoln was assassinated just days after the end of the Civil War so he wasn’t able to make sure blacks received the treatment they deserved through the reconstruction era. The Democrat Party, through segregation, the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means in the Southern states were able to effectively disenfranchise African Americans.

Despite continued oppression many Black Americans made great strides and had successes and were great entrepreneurs. The history of Black Americans should be embraced, not destroyed. Bob Woodson, founder of The Woodson Center, wrote, “In the first 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, black Americans had accumulated a personal wealth of $700 million. They owned more than 40,000 businesses, and 937,999 farms. The literacy rate had climbed from 5 percent to 70 percent. Black commercial enclaves in Durham, North Carolina, and the Greenwood Avenue section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, together were known as the Negro Wall Street. But Democrat progressives like Woodrow Wilson set Blacks back. He was a racist who resegregated the federal government. He was a supporter of the Democrat Party’s Ku Klux Klan.

It wasn’t until the Republican Party led Civil Rights legislation of the 1950’s and culminating in 1965, did Black Americans truly get protection under the law that they deserved. The legislation outlawed discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion or sex. It discouraged job discrimination through the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They new laws also eliminated discrimination in housing.

Also in 1965 LBJ launched, with the approval of congress, his “Great Society” program. Much of this legislation was passed to help level the playing field for Blacks in America and lower poverty. Some $22 Trillion dollars was spent in this endeavor with mixed results. Affirmative Action was put in place to give Blacks and other minorities preference over Whites in getting jobs and gaining admittance in colleges. That policy was fully in place in the USA for over 50 years and did help many Black Americans. However, some of the welfare programs actually backfired and created a dependence culture keeping Blacks stuck in generational welfare instead of encouraging advancement to well paying jobs.

In 2017 President Donald J. Trump put in place Opportunity Zones in inner cities that encouraged businesses to invest in these communities. Many of these businesses were Black owned. They created more jobs for Blacks and other minorities that lowered Black unemployment to its lowest levels in history.

For more about Slavery please read this article: The Truth About Slavery

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have a dream that my four 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”. On 28 August in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.”

Booker T. Washington and Black Conservatism to Tackle Problems in the Black Community

One of the main characteristics of Black conservatism is its emphasis on personal choice and responsibilities above socioeconomic status and institutional racism. Booker T. Washington was one of the first Black Americans to espouse these values:

The pursuit of educational and professional excellence as a means of advancement within the society;
Policies that promote safety and security in the community beyond the typical casting of poor Blacks as a victims of societal racism;
Not using the lens of race and the country’s history of discrimination as justifications for not excelling to the best of your abilities;
Local economic development through free enterprise rather than looking to the federal government for assistance;
Empowerment of the individual via self-improvement (virtue), conscience, and God’s grace.

Black conservatives typically oppose affirmative action, which is supported by the vast majority of African-American communities. They tend to argue that efforts to obtain reparations for slavery are either misguided or counter-productive. Black conservatives tend to be critical of aspects of Democrat party policies that they believe have led to poverty and dependency.

Charter Schools

Charter Schools and Their Enemies By Walter Williams

July 8, 2020

Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on New York State Education Department’s annual English Language Arts test and its Mathematics Test. Sowell gives the results of student tests in charter schools such as KIPP, Success Academy, Explore Schools, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First as well as the traditional New York City public schools. On the English Language Arts test, a majority of charter school students, most of whom were black or Hispanic, tested proficient or above. Their achievement ratio was nearly 5 to 1. On the Mathematics test 68% of charter schools’ 161 grade levels had a majority of students testing proficient. In the traditional public schools, 177 grade levels, just 10% had a majority of their student testing proficient.

In April 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that 57% of black and 54% of Hispanic charter school students passed the statewide ELA compared to 52% of white students statewide. On the state math test, 59% of black students and 57% of Hispanics at city charter schools passed as opposed to 54% of white students statewide.

Sowell says: “In a realm where educational failure has long been the norm — schools in low income minority neighborhoods — this is success, a remarkable success. What is equally remarkable is how unwelcome this success has been in many places. What has been especially remarkable is that it has been the most educationally successful charter schools that seem to have drawn the most hostility, both in words and in deeds.” The most common form of that hostility are simple legal limits set on the number of charter schools permitted without regard to whether charter schools are producing good or bad educational outcomes.

The education establishment, having the nation’s most powerful labor union, has the ears of political leaders. They see a huge loss potential if more parents are able to opt out of poorly achieving public schools. For example, in New York City there are more than 50,000 students on waiting lists for admission to charter schools. The per-pupil expenditure tops $20,000 a year. If all the students on the waiting list were able to be admitted to charter schools, that would translate into a billion-dollar loss by the traditional public schools. A substantial decline in traditional public school attendance would mean fewer teachers employed. That would mean declining union dues since most charter school teachers are not union members. Charter schools’ rate of growth since the 1990s has been significant. From 2001 to 2016, enrollment at traditional public schools rose 1% while enrollment in public charter schools rose 571%.

Sowell points out that not all charter schools are successful. Failing charter schools can have their charters revoked, cutting off access to public funds. That is in stark contrast to failing and corrupt traditional public schools that continue to dine at the public trough. Successful charter schools are the real threat to traditional unionized public schools. No charter school in Sowell’s study has been more successful than Success Academy charter schools in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx — and none has been more viciously attacked in words and in deeds. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio explicitly campaigned against charter schools saying: “I am angry about the privatizers. I am sick and tired of these efforts to privatize a precious thing we need — public education.

In another venue, Sowell said: “We keep hearing that “black lives matter,” but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99% of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media.”

At a 2016 meeting, the NAACP’s board of directors ratified a resolution that called for a moratorium on charter schools. Among the NAACP’s reasons for this were that it wanted charter schools to refrain from “expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate” and “cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.” That is a vision suggesting that no black children receive decent educations until all black children receive decent educations. Black people cannot afford to entertain such a vision and other attacks on educational success.

Walter E. Williams was a professor of economics at George Mason University. He died in 2021.

Thomas Sowell, economist

Thomas Sowell was born on June 30, 1930 in North Carolina. He grew up in New York City’s Harlem area, and served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. He earned his BA degree in economics from Harvard University (1958), his MA degree in economics from Columbia University (1959), and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).

He tells in his autobiography, A Personal Odyssey (2000), that for most the time while earning his degrees, he considered himself a Marxist. However, studying the effects of a variety of government interventions in the marketplace, including minimum wage laws, led him to the conclusion that free competitive markets were the institutional avenues for betterment and prosperity, especially for the least well-off in society. He found that those planning, guiding, and administrating the regulatory and welfare state had self-interested goals and purposes that often had little or nothing to do with improving the circumstances of those for whom such legislation supposedly had been passed. Sometimes very much to the contrary.

To name just a few of his many works specifically on this theme: Race and Economics (1975), Markets and Minorities (1981), Ethnic America: A History (1981), The Economics and Politics of Race (1983), Preferential Policies (1990), Race and Culture (1995), Migrations and Cultures (1996), Conquests and Cultures (1998), Affirmative Action Around the World (2004), Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005), Intellectuals and Race (2013), Wealth, Poverty and Politics, (2016), and Discrimination and Disparities (2018, revised ed., 2019).

Candace Owens tells how she learned that she was duped by the Democrat party for her whole life. She is the founder of the BLEXIT, or ‘Black Exit’ movement out of the Democrat party.

Abortion, and the Racist Founder. of Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger’s legacy of racism and ‘elimination of the unfit’

By M.K. SPRINKLE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES |

JAN 04, 2020

While liberals praise Planned Parenthood for its contributions to the health of women (unborn infants carrying the feminine XX chromosomes excluded), no one seems eager to discuss the organization’s origin or its racist founder, eugenics advocate, Margaret Sanger. For the record, according to Merriam-Webster, eugenics is “the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population’s genetic composition.”

With assistance from Sanger herself, allow me to introduce you to this heroine of the left in a few of her own words.

From “The Pivot of Civilization” (1922): “We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” (referring to Black Americans)

From “Birth Control and Racial Betterment” (1919): “Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.”

From “A Plan for Peace” (1932): [The government should] “give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”

Liberal Democrat civil rights activist (and a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1984), Jesse Jackson railed against abortion, calling it “black genocide” and comparing abortion to slavery. According to Jackson, the idea that a baby was the personal property of the mother and she could do whatever she pleased with the child “was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside your right to be concerned.” And at the 1977 March for Life, Jackson asked, “What happens … to the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?”

Notwithstanding what we know about Sanger, each year since 1966, Planned Parenthood has continued to hand out The Margaret Sanger Award to “honor” the legacy of its founder. And liberals covet that award. The 2014 recipient? Nancy Pelosi.

When Hillary Clinton received the award in 2009, she said during her acceptance: “It was a great privilege when I was told that I would receive this award. I admire Margaret Sanger enormously. … I’m really in awe of her. There are a lot of lessons we can learn from her life, from the causes she launched and fought for and scarified for so greatly.” I I

According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, there have been over 15.5 million abortions performed on African Americans. These 15.5 million Black lives lost to abortion outnumber the deaths of Black people due to AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, cancer, and heart disease combined. According to BlackGenocide.org, if abortion had not been legalized, the African American population would have experienced an increase of 36 percent. Abortion, primarily committed by Planned Parenthood, is a major limiter on Black population growth.

Gun Control and Black Murders

John Lott Jr has researched Gun control and it’s effects on crime. His book More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws. makes many important points.

States with the largest increases in gun ownership also have the largest drops in violent crimes. Thirty-one states now have such laws—called “shall-issue” laws. These laws allow adults the right to carry concealed handguns if they do not have a criminal record or a history of significant mental illness. Concealed handgun laws reduce violent crime for two reasons. First, they reduce the number of attempted crimes because criminals are uncertain which potential victims can defend themselves. Second, victims who have guns are in a much better position to defend themselves. Gun restrictions don’t help black people living in violent neighborhoods, he says. Every time guns have been banned, Lott says, murder rates have increased.

However, Blacks are discriminated against owning their own guns to protect themselves. Gun laws actually discriminate against poor blacks by making it more difficult for them to buy guns for protection. States do this by raising the costs of concealed gun permits, training and other fees that price out poor minorities.

As happened with Voting Rights laws that ended poll taxes, that stopped Blacks from voting, laws need to be changed to give Blacks and others easier access to gun ownership as is guaranteed in the second amendment of the Constitution.

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Shelby Steele

Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow

National Humanities Medal(2004)

Bradley Prize(2006)

Shelby Steele is the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. He was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1994.

Steele has written widely on race in American society and the consequences of contemporary social programs on race relations.

In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. In 2004, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 1991, his work on the documentary Seven Days in Bensonhurst was recognized with an Emmy Award and two awards for television documentary writing—the Writer’s Guild Award and the San Francisco Film Festival Award.

Steele received the National Book Critic’s Circle Award in 1990 in the general nonfiction category for his book The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (HarperCollins, 1998). Other books by Steele include Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country (Basic Books, 2015), A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win (Free Press, 2007), White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (HarperCollins, 2006) and A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America (HarperCollins, 1998).

Steele has written extensively for major publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. He has also spoken before hundreds of groups and appeared on national current affairs news programs including Nightline and 60 Minutes.

Steele is a member of the National Association of Scholars, the national board of the American Academy for Liberal Education, the University Accreditation Association, and the national board at the Center for the New American Community at the Manhattan Institute.

Steele holds a PhD in English from the University of Utah, an MA in sociology from Southern Illinois University, and a BA in political science from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Charles Payne

Charles Payne is the host of Making Money with Charles Payne (weekdays 2-3PM/ET) and joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in October 2007 as a contributor.

Payne is also a contributor to FOX News Channel (FNC), frequently appearing on shows such as Your World with Neil Cavuto and Fox & Friends. He began his career on Wall Street as an analyst at E.F. Hutton in 1985. In 1991, he founded Wall Street Strategies, an independent stock market research firm where he serves as chief executive officer and principal analyst. He published his first book entitled “Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich” in May 2007.

Payne attended Minot State College and Central Texas College during his time in the United States Air Force.

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