Exceptional or Just an Exception
- The soft bigotry of low expectations -
This idea that a specific majority effectually limits the potential success of any minority group has grown to be a commonly traveled train of thought in today’s America. A notion that feeds an impression that the efforts of these minorities toward socioeconomic equality is rendered null and void due to methods of systematic racism and discrimination. Because of this outlook, when members of these disadvantaged collectives find themselves to be successful in such a preemptively rigged system, they are considered to be the exceptions, and not the rule. The most puzzling thing about this belief, it how those that embrace it do not see how it expresses a blatant disregard for the humanity of the specified assembly and is, in all respects, offensive in its presumption that any minority group is inferior to that of the majority. Of course, the promoters of this view will argue the contrary, as they attempt to convince you that it is not about the incompetence or inability of the protected group, rather it is about the systematic processes, as stated above, that inhibit these species of individuals. They dogmatically promote egalitarianism, without realizing that it is their own desire for so-called security and equality that is the main contributor to their disenfranchisement. A prime example of the contradictions inherent to progressive thinking. It exalts altruism by means of equality and security for the sake of justice, which ironically is a driving force behind the great inequalities and lack of securities we see to date. Furthermore, the rigged system that they complain about is a result of historical applications of today’s progressive talking points.
Wages to unions, so-called civil rights to quotas are all organized implementations that undoubtedly have an adverse effect on those very groups that progressives claim to be fighting for. I refer to these so-called civil rights as just that for the simple fact that they are applied ad hoc and with vengeance. I’m sure the reader will agree that the equality that best serves the great body of the people is an equivalence that treats all persons with an unbiased regard under the law, whether negative or positive. Equality need not require legislation, it merely requires consideration. Meaning, if a law is established throughout the land, then that law should be applied to all persons within that land, not ad hoc or preferentially. Example; if the Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal,” then let that statute apply to all men. Legislation does not need to go further in specifying any particular race, gender, or whatever; for the “all men” already incorporates these distinctions. The laws themselves do not determine egalitarianism, it is the enforcement of the laws that does so. More extensive detail on this matter is a separate conversation, but it is important to note the distortion of progressive thinking toward the rule of law and acknowledge its fundamental misappropriation of the law which, in and of itself, leads to the very things they claim to hate.
It is this ad hoc approach to societal woes which leads too many American blacks to consider the success of a notable portion of their community as exceptions and not the rule. They proclaim these exceptional individuals did something that the vast number of American blacks are unable to accomplish. A belief that is condescending, self-hating and self-loathing. A lie born from the pit of hell and promulgated by demon filled men who confine the Negro to the necessity of governmental assistance for success. Such thinking only proves one’s ignorance of their own American history, only yielding themselves to the dark narrative of victim hood, without realizing that we, the American black, have accomplished more in our short stent here in the States than any other group has accomplished in a similar time span in known history. From the increase in our literacy rate, to the economic uprising of a people that were, less than 200 years ago, enslaved. Granted, we still have a long way to grow, nevertheless, let us not take lightly the steps we have already taken in reaching our current position. A position that we are not aware of. “If one were to total black earnings and consider black Americans a separate nation, he would find that, in 2008, they earned $726 billion. That would make them the world’s sixteenth-richest nation, just behind Turkey but ahead of Poland, Belgium, and Switzerland.” An excerpt from economist Dr. Walter E. Williams’ book “Race & Economics”, which I recommend as a must read. How then can we determine ourselves unfortunate? Are there horrible experiences in our history? Yes. Have we been grossly mistreated under the guides of racism and hate? Yes. Were these persecutions peculiar to our people alone? No. Though the past is riddled with horrors, that same past is also riddled with successes. There are accounts of numerous American blacks who grew socioeconomically in the midst of slavery and Jim Crow. Even the fact that Jim Crow was legislated is proof that the American Negro was a viable member of the American economy. We must redirect our thinking, augment our perception. For example; Why would particular legislation be past if there was not a legitimate threat of whatever that law was prohibiting? Therefore, if Jim Crow were enacted with the exhausted effort to limit black and white interaction, then that must mean that prior to those laws, blacks and whites were interacting of their own free will accord. A detail that is empirically supported and historically validated. Dr. Walter Williams further elaborates this in his book, “Race & Economics”, noting the enumerable successes of blacks in both the south and the north, following and during slavery. Men who lived during these times confirm this truth. Frederick Douglass speaks in his autobiography, “My Bondage and My Freedom”, of his short time living with a black family in the north, following his escape from slavery via the underground railroad. He spoke of how this man’s wealth rivalled, if not superseded that of his former masters. We can find Booker T. Washington speaking of how, after much trial and error, the students at his school, Tuskegee University, located in Alabama, sold bricks crafted at the school to local businesses and residents. Many of which were white and bought the bricks because of their quality and price, regardless of the race of the merchants.
What the progressive mind fails to recognize is the reality that a laissez-faire market shows no partiality. Discrimination, racism, whatever, lose their grip when profit, loss, savings and earnings are in play. People will work with and work for, purchase from and sell to, service and patronize according to the best value and best quality regardless of race or gender. This is equality, this is security; knowing that if you provide the best service or good at the lowest price, it will bring subsistence regardless of who you are. Thereby, validating the fact that those among a specific “disenfranchised” group that succeed are not the exceptions, but rather they are emphatically the rule.
