The Economics of the Race Warlords

Posted on February 16, 2006 | Filed Under Politics

I highly suggest you read “Showtime at Coretta Scott King’s Funeral” by Larry Elder on townhall.com.

Listening to speaker after speaker complain about the poor conditions under which minorities live, one wonders whether Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished anything at all.

But then Elder points out success after success, and describes some of the wealth and achievement of various black Americans.   He also discusses the various copyright lawsuits brought forth by the King family for use of the “I Have A Dream” speech - suits they settled for millions.   I don’t know about you, but there is a perfect example of the economics of the race warlords.   That speech should be part of the public domain of American history, not unlike the Kennedy Inaugural or the Gettysburg Address.

Elder closes with a quote from Booker T. Washington that, although originally delivered in 1911, seems to be directed to most of the speech makers at the King funeral:

There is [a] class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy, and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. . . . There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

Think about that for a minute… What would Jesse Jackson actually do for a living if there was no racial inequality - either real or perceived?‚  And Al Sharpton?

No, the call for reparations, set-asides, race-based preferences, and still more welfare brings no actual incentive for success of the movement.   If anything, the very livelyhood of people likeJoseph Lowery, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton depends upon black people remaining poor and downtrodden.


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