The Black Dilemma in America: Culture, Conflict, No Solutions

By Frosty Wooldridge

Since Americans fought for Blacks’ freedom in 1865 with the end of the Civil War, our country spins around and around on the racial conflict merry-go-round. Each decade, new players ride the spinning wheel from Dred Scott to Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton. Oh, and let’s not forget Maxine Waters.

No matter how many Band-Aids and changes to the White Man’s laws to eradicate ‘racism’, the Negro race and the Caucasian race fail to integrate, fail to get along and they fail to accept each other. It’s biological. European Americans arrived from sophisticated civilizations while Africans arrived from primal societies from the Dark Continent. That fact illustrates a major dichotomy in the two races.

Whether you remember the Detroit riots, MLK marches, water cannons, LA riots, Black Panthers, Kaepernick, George Floyd and endless skirmishes in colleges, workplaces, and sports—it’s a sobering fact that Blacks and White simply don’t get along, don’t like each other and/or endure their circumstances in America.

This cultural experiment tests a faulty hypothesis: can people taken out of the jungles of Africa as slaves, become fully integrated as citizens in an overwhelmingly White country?

Historian and writer Ian Duncan said, “The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.”

Decade after decade, we’ve hoped for the best outcome in this racially and culturally disparate situation. While most of the Blacks and Whites get along in America, there’s always that “edge” of distrust, as well as feelings of superiority and inferiority that persist in both tribes. One race enjoys superior athletic ability while the other race excels in the intellectual realm.

Whites introduced everything from the Great Society to Affirmative Action.

Duncan said, “They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice-versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the achievement gap. To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to Celebrate Diversity! And Say No to Racism. Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.”

Yet, nothing solves inner city Black violence against Blacks, failed schools, illiteracy, crime, gangs, drugs and astounding 7 out of 10 out-of-wedlock Black children arrive into this world without fathers in the USA. In Africa, it’s 9 out of 10. You might call it an “evolutionary disaster.”

Duncan said, “Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Minneapolis degrades into total breakdown. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.”

Our reality: nothing changes no matter how many programs or money spent. Black president Obama couldn’t solve it. Top Black U.S. Senators and House members haven’t solved it. Some argue it’s a problem of culture, as if culture creates peoples’ behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.

Duncan continued, “But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India, people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country’s violent crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.”

Let’s face it, this mixing of races has failed. I submit not from White culture or White racism. The fundamental problem is that American Black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime ridden disaster. I submit that if you sent any number of Whites into tribes in Africa, they would fail, too. There’s no way Whites can change to tribal culture any more than Blacks can assimilate into highly organized laws, education and disciplines of White culture.

I remember when I taught in the ghetto for two years: when a child could not perform mathematical problems, they became frustrated, then angry and finally, violent. They dropped out and joined gangs where they found their identity. Of course, they suffered from illiteracy, which guaranteed a life of poverty in the White man’s world.

As Duncan said, “White people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.”

There’s no question that Black people live in White man’s culture that does not fit their own DNA tribal culture. No matter what Whites or Blacks do to alleviate the problem, it’s unsolvable.

One unknown writer said, “You can’t legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government doesn’t first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don’t have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”

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