Our “worst day” on 9-11 showed us strength lies in unity, but San Francisco 49ers quarterback and Star Spangled canner Colin Kaepernick is a bust for punting the divisive notion that America — the country that invented racial equality — undermines blacks.
The hard count is America cares deeply about its minorities or it would not have spent between $15 trillion and $22 trillion in the past 50 years on anti-poverty programs aimed primarily at poor blacks — that’s more than three times the cost of all U.S. military wars since the American Revolution, when adjusted for inflation and excluding Social Security or Medicare, figures conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation.
Even today welfare aid eclipses basic defense spending and Social Security as the single biggest hunk of the federal budget.
In return, a large segment of black America has cracked up, promoted a culture of victim-hood, and blamed whites for its angst and anomalies, including illegitimacy, family breakdown, crime, an education funk, and problems with authority. Afro-apathy — tainted with civil disobedience, bad citizenship, an attitude of ingratitude, and failed black leadership — is responsible for the comprehensive collapse, leading to clashes with cops, whose slayings of unarmed black men accounted for less than four percent of fatal police shootings last year, a Washington Post study found.
Police officers were either under attack or defending civilians — namely doing their jobs — in three-quarters of the incidents, while nearly a third of the shootings resulted from car chases beginning with a minor traffic stop, and the majority of victims were mentally disturbed, wielding weapons, or bolted when told to surrender, the report concluded.
Black America’s habitual woes are a byproduct of its own tumult and torpor, and not a civil rights issue, because racism in America has declined.
Kaepernick’s white-bias whoppers must be a Freudian slip of his reverse prejudice, because he need only look to the Oval Office to see how far a motivated black person can succeed in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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