Andrew Melton

I want to follow up on this and say that like most Americans, I genuinely want what is best for Black people here, which is why I find this blatant dishonesty and inverse reality of the current situation so frustrating. If you see a Black child outside, there is a well over 50% chance his father is not in his life. It’s one of many cultural issues now, and framing everything through systemic injustices for decades has done very little to help Black people and has often made them worse off. People like Ibram X Kendi and Ta Nehisi Coates help one Black person, and it’s themselves, and they do so at the expense of the advancement of Black Americans as a whole. It doesn't matter how Black the MSNBC staff is or how many Black candidates the overwhelmingly white DSA decides to run for office to make themselves feel virtuous, if they don't support measures or start a conversation about how to help Black Americans as a whole without blanket pandering and victimhood lines or lying that some magical reparations check of $300K is coming for every black American and even warranted in the first place. If we continue to ignore crime rates, fatherlessness rates, and the glaring cultural issues within the community, we are doing a disservice to the entire incoming generation of Black Americans, and everyone in the country will suffer for it eventually, despite paying to live elsewhere, and for their kids to go to private schools while pretending these problems don't exist. If you were to give our country’s biggest virtue signalers free rent in a luxury place in a low-income Black neighborhood for a year, they wouldn’t take it. There is a very direct correlation with the most wealthy and liberal places in this country. Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the whole state of Massachusetts are heavily liberal because they are completely cloistered from this. They do not understand the implications for the future if it’s not confronted, so it’s better to say the nice thing and ignore it. That way you get to be a “good person.” We currently are pretending Black Americans are under attack by racists, and not being given opportunity when the uncomfortable truth is it's in plain sight not the case, and we have implemented measures across the spectrum that were supposed to fix this and completely fail to fix these underlying issues, because they ignore them entirely. If you know public school teachers in this community, they will be the first to tell you the situation is out of control, and the same people that refuse to have the conversation (wealthy liberals) do not put their kids in those schools intentionally. So we have people cloistered from the problem further enabling it, and it is genuinely one of the biggest issues for the future of America. Philadelphia has a 52% functional illiteracy rate. And the most disgraceful part is that instead of challenging our students and being strict, we move to indoctrinate them into a faux victimhood framing for their issues. We have done mental gymnastics to ignore the fact that our country has been worshipping cultural degeneracy as artistry, and making constant excuses for shortcomings because people are so terrified of being called racist or any other form of bigot. We care so much more as a society about having the perception of being a good person rather than having an honest conversation about issues that we are seemingly okay with throwing them under the bus as long as it’s not an issue we have to deal with. This is why I have deep admiration for Black Americans that ignore the social programming of victimhood and frame these conversations on how to make genuine improvements rather than pointing to something else. It's not "woke" and Conservatives/Moderates should actually shoutout some of the Black Americans that refuse to follow the trends on this and try to help Black America. Here are some I recommend following @IsaiahLCarter @CoreyWriting @chadojackson @the_jefferymead @thatsKAIZEN @MatNuclear