There are many reasons I support AA. I can't get into all of them here, so I'll start at the birth of the idea of AA. This was with LBJ. At Howard University, in 1965. Johnson, who had a real feel for poverty, and contrary to rumors was not a racist (though he did play one while moving up the Southern ladder, once he gained power, he meant to use it for something that the powerful Dixie coalition would not appreciate, and in fact his long time mentor, and most powerful of the "states rights" Southerners, Richard Russell, would go on to call him the "worst turncoat" he had ever met. But his history, if studied closely would have clued even Russell into what he was going to do when he had power), understood something that they all did, because it was done purposefully, but that only he (out of the powerful in the Southern block) wanted to do something to change its effects.
What he understood was blacks were mostly cut out of the New Deal, and the GI Bill. This was due to Southerners having so much power in Congress, that the only way to get these bills passed, was to give them what they wanted. What did they want? They wanted the programs to be adminstered on a county level, not a federal level. In this way, whites became the main beneficiaries of these massive government spending programs.
What was the legacy of this? The GI Bill itself was government welfare of the largest magnitude. And its beneficiaries went to college, and received mortgage subsidies that led to a housing boom. The average white family's net worth is so much higher today than the average black persons, and the average white person's net worth is due mainly, to home ownership. The initial beneficiaries of the GI bill passed down their worth to their children. What they passed down was due in large part, to college educations subsidized by the government, and homes that had greatly increased in value, that were originally also subsidized by the government.
Added to this, the New Deal, which ended up cutting a disporportionate amount of blacks out of benefits (originally), labor laws under the New Deal, designed to exempt fields mainly labored by blacks, and what we had was a massive transfer of wealth which created the modern middle class. And that is why the modern middle class has mainly, been made up of whites.
Johnson sought to inact programs, kicked off by his 1965 "To Fulfill These Rights" speech at Howard University. Many events prevented his dream from being realized.
But it should be realized. And when white people, having been the main beneficiaries of government welfare in our history, and we are talking real welfare here, the kind that changed lives forever, sit around whining about how "I can't get a job because of AA" it makes me want to puke.
Pull yourselves up your bootstraps boys. Take some personal responsibility. To deny that you have institionalized benefits in this society, and that your parents and grandparents did as well, benefits that blacks most definitely did not have, is both delusional and pathetic. Not to mention ignorant of history.
What he understood was blacks were mostly cut out of the New Deal, and the GI Bill. This was due to Southerners having so much power in Congress, that the only way to get these bills passed, was to give them what they wanted. What did they want? They wanted the programs to be adminstered on a county level, not a federal level. In this way, whites became the main beneficiaries of these massive government spending programs.
What was the legacy of this? The GI Bill itself was government welfare of the largest magnitude. And its beneficiaries went to college, and received mortgage subsidies that led to a housing boom. The average white family's net worth is so much higher today than the average black persons, and the average white person's net worth is due mainly, to home ownership. The initial beneficiaries of the GI bill passed down their worth to their children. What they passed down was due in large part, to college educations subsidized by the government, and homes that had greatly increased in value, that were originally also subsidized by the government.
Added to this, the New Deal, which ended up cutting a disporportionate amount of blacks out of benefits (originally), labor laws under the New Deal, designed to exempt fields mainly labored by blacks, and what we had was a massive transfer of wealth which created the modern middle class. And that is why the modern middle class has mainly, been made up of whites.
Johnson sought to inact programs, kicked off by his 1965 "To Fulfill These Rights" speech at Howard University. Many events prevented his dream from being realized.
But it should be realized. And when white people, having been the main beneficiaries of government welfare in our history, and we are talking real welfare here, the kind that changed lives forever, sit around whining about how "I can't get a job because of AA" it makes me want to puke.
Pull yourselves up your bootstraps boys. Take some personal responsibility. To deny that you have institionalized benefits in this society, and that your parents and grandparents did as well, benefits that blacks most definitely did not have, is both delusional and pathetic. Not to mention ignorant of history.
