The Ghetto Responds, 'Violence Is Our Way Of Life' - ICE, Federal Troops, And Cultural Intrusion

The ghetto didn't exist in the 40's.  Well, it did in the sense of a restricted Negro section of the city; but those neighborhoods were a far cry from the inner cities of today. They were places of propriety, family, church, and mutual respect.   Although they were segregated, black communities were cohesive, well-run, respectful, and as faithful to American, Christian norms as any white ones. 

While this is not to condone the racial prejudice that limited black integration, opportunity, and progress, it does suggest that the loss of the goodness, honor, and patriotism that were in the black communities is a shame, a tragedy, and a national disgrace. 

The Harlem Renaissance - a period of high expression of Negro art, music, and style - was renowned.  The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC was no different. Theatre, vaudeville and minstrel shows, jazz, and performance art were sought after by both white and black audiences

This all changed in the Sixties, a time of social revolution in the United States where these black communities were radicalized and told that mimicking white culture when suffering white oppression was a slave mentality.  The native, African roots of black culture - far different from the white one blacks were imitating - were genuine, indigenous, and superior.  Revolt against the white man means a rejection of his plantation mentality, a defiance of his Jim Crow oppression, and an expression of the militant dignity of all black people. 

The conciliatory, compromising, collaborative movement of Martin Luther King - little more than Uncle Tom 'Yes, Massa' bowing and scraping was dismissed by the young Sixties radicals, H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael.  The violent demands for black anarchy and the end of white culture increased with the ascendancy of Malcom X and the Nation of Islam.  

 

Yet whatever sentient, insightful, mystical forest cultures that may have formed the nature of the African, they were ignored in the revolutionary zeal of black reformers.  The moderating polities of both African tribal culture and white middle-class society were dismissed as backward and oppressive. 

The new ghetto was left with nothing but resentment, hostility, anger, and violence and the legacy of a fatherless, rootless, morally inchoate past.  Left to fester and patronized by the American Left which added a culture of entitlement, a policy which further eroded any of the old, traditional, community values, the inner city became more and more lawless and dysfunctional.  

Traditional morality was gone, the vestiges of African family tribal culture had disappeared, and the sense of individual responsibility had been corroded by unaccountable guilt-ridden and venal giveaways. 

So, what is the black culture of the inner city now?  How might it be characterized? Forget the black diaspora and its contribution to music or the performances of professional athletes and focus on the ghetto, a cultureless place of violence, dysfunction and recidivism. 

Yet the American progressive Left, responsible to a large degree for the decades of patronizing benign neglect of black communities, and guilty of imposing an even more destructive culture of identity, champions the ghetto the way it is.  The street culture, no more than an anarchic array of prostitution, gangs, drugs, and sexual abandonment, is recognized as 'authentic', and those who criticize it are racist. 

The mayors of major American cities, black for the most part, elected in waves of identity politics and DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusivity) idealism have ridden the white liberal guilt trip for all it's worth.  These mayors have championed the destitute, hopeless slums of their cities and set them up against racist plantation police and white supremacy in general.  

Without adequate policing and with a morally hands-off policy and blind eye to violence and anti-social behavior, these inner cities have become even worse sinkholes of poverty, incivility, and hatred. 

So when the Trump Administration took office and immediately vowed to address this issue, the mayors and the shills in their city councils cried foul.  We are the elected representatives of our cities, they shouted, and you have no business here.  'Our cities, our lives, our communities, our culture', shouted the Mayor of Chicago in front of a crowd of his constituents. 

Undeterred, Trump sent troops into Washington, Los Angeles, and Chicago; and promised that federal presence would be soon seen in other cities around the nation.  These troops would work in concert with ICE agents and local police to return municipalities to civility and civil order.

Years of political indifference, fueled by progressive assumptions of inclusivity, have fostered untenable homeless populations, drug alleys, broken families, and failing schools; and it was time for the damage to stop. 

Think of it - the heroic championing of the nation's most uncivil, chaotically violent and hostile places.  The idiocy, the sheer political chutzpah, and the outrageous intellectual corruption is hard to fathom. The few sane and civil families still living amidst the inhuman conditions of the ghetto and who desperately want to leave, feel abandoned by their municipal leaders.  Civil rights? Whose? they ask, certainly not theirs. 

The President of El Salvador who has rounded up and imprisoned thousands of MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha gangbangers and freed his people from their reign of terror has been accused by the Left of abrogating their civil rights.  Whose civil rights? he responds.  By liberating tens of thousands of honest, hardworking, patriotic Salvadorans, I have restored their civil rights. Isn't it time for the United States to follow the same path?

 

The howls and breast-beating of the Left are predictable.  Taking the side of the 'oppressed' - incredibly those unfairly imprisoned without due process - against the violated, the mass of Salvadoran citizens, they have shown an intolerable arrogance and ignorance. 

Trump, former President Duterte of the Philippines, and Bukele of El Salvador, have weighed in on the side of the people.  Due process and democracy itself have limits.  The Chinese who have raised hundreds of millions out of poverty through a militant, irreversible, centralized effort have always said that the well-being of those millions far outweighs the abrogated civil rights of the few - those who have stood in the way of social progress. 

The Presidents of Poland, Hungary, and Italy and political leaders in France, Germany, and the Netherlands, have condemned Islam and have called it out for its intellectual totalitarianism, its Koran-sanctioned violence and hegemonic aggression, and its complete and utter intolerance.  They have refused the culture of identity and inclusion and have used their eyes and ears instead. 

It is what Donald Trump has done, and what American voters must do.  Look squarely at the black inner city.  Look honestly and objectively.  Reject cant and faux idealism.  Only after that assessment is made, an any remedial actions be taken. 

The deployment of federal troops in American municipalities is welcomed by citizens who for too long have been intimidated and threatened not only by endemic violence but by the coddling of those communities most responsible for the anarchy.  The courts have restrained and restricted federal incursions that break the law, but by and large have approved the Trump initiatives. 

The Constitution is not being disregarded as the Left claims - it is simply being challenged in ways that Washington has never seen.  Democracy itself is undergoing change, testing limitations, probing borders.  This is the way a system of governance should work.  While one might like to preserve the system - as Winston Churchill said, democracy is the worst system of governance except for all the others - it should not be considered a shibboleth to be revered and never examined. 

Ghetto culture? What exactly is that?