No comment on the 'race war’ going on in Ferguson? No - you can’t have an intelligent discussion about race in America so long as liberals have a vested interest in blacks forever and always seeing themselves as victims - simple as that - all you can do is sadly stand back and watch the nightmarish farce play out over and over again until the great reckoning finally reaches us somewhere down the road. This is of course not to absurdly contend that blacks haven’t been victimized but rather to state the obvious: any culture that is told and encouraged to believe that any wrong it does or dysfunction it manifests is the fault of someone else is gonna develop some pretty problematic qualities and behavioural aberrations - this is exactly what liberalism has done to African-Americans - and as long as liberals need blacks to see themselves in this way and have the political wherewithal and media backing to make it so nothing is gonna change. Think about it: Asian ‘immigrants' were also treated quite badly by ‘white’ America as the country came of age - not as poorly as blacks but in many ways not that far removed either - a coolie was by and large in all but name a slave - and yet Asians in America flourish and their culture exhibits none of the dysfunction and constant embrace of grievance black culture does - why? Because liberals never adopted Asian Americans as a 'special cause’ and therefore they were spared the enervating ravages of white guilt coming to their ‘rescue'. Asian Americans had no choice but to put the injustice done behind them and move on, adapt - and now there’s no cultural group in America doing better than Asians. Much of this has to do with the fact that for Asians there’s never been a stigma attached to 'acting white’ therefore they were able to adopt those aspects of Western culture imminently worthy of being adopted - Western civilization beginning with Athens and ending with America is the most successful and dynamic culture to ever walk the earth and yet modern liberalism essentially tells blacks to scorn that culture, to demonize it, to treat it as the enemy - that’s pretty god damn stupid.
What’s happening in Ferguson is not about racism - it’s about the dysfunction and enervation the progressive's mindset and worldview give rise to - and as long as this dysfunction serves the liberal sympathies of the media and the electoral fortunes of Democrats and the selfish schemes of charlatan hucksters like Sharpton it’s hard to see this ‘racism’ problem ever going away, at least not quietly - you do get the feeling that waiting somewhere down the road is a rupture to public order that will be quite disturbing.
[for a fuller and much more erudite expression of the point I'm trying to make - that the problem with Ferguson is not racism but liberalism - see this very nice piece by Williamson over at NRO]