How Can We Prevent Such Tragedies?

 

                                   The late George Floyd 

How many “blacks” realize if it were not for slavery they would not be alive today?  Slavery began in Africa when tribes took other tribe’s men for slaves.  The slave trade was born in Africa, but spread world-wide and is on-going today.  As well, there are still aboriginal human beings living in "Edens" of the Biblical kind with people much like those of that time.  We have been naive about our beginnings.

The American Negro today owes his existence to slavery, but needs not stay there in the most open and welcoming society on Earth where “All men are created equal in the eyes of the law,” which means in terms of behavior. There has been no exodus of American Negroes to any other country, but in large they are not doing as well as other minorities. Why should this be and how can we repair it?

When you move to a foreign country to stay the first thing to do is learn their language and ways if you want to succeed.  You will teach their ways to your children so they can assimilate and do well, but many “blacks” insist on speaking their own dialect, saying “ax” for ask, chopping all the “g’s” from words like “workin” for working, “fightin” for fighting and on.  A small issue, but one that separates them when they want to fit in with the people who have money, power, create opportunity and more.

What happens when several candidates for a job apply and one comes in with a huge “Afro” hairdo, “hip-hop” language and a street-swagger walk.  He only needs a nose-bone to strike terror in white people.  Guess who gets the job, unless the employer is bent-over-double with “white-privilege” guilt, paid $300,000 to learn at a college where socialist professors promote white guilt.

The “black” in-your-face, angry liberals in corporations and bureaus are the next social time-bomb waiting to go off when the power structure really screws-up and triggers a cascade.  It is only a matter of time today as the liberal guns are all cocked.

There was a time when given the opportunity to have a “black” doctor was a “no brainer” choice because you could count on his quality given he would have to be excellent to overcome race-stigma before our guilt-driven era.  I made such a decision in central Los Angeles, CA in 1962 when I had a sprained ankle in the Baldwin Hills area.  He was an excellent doctor.

Now we are not so sure as some medical schools are bending over backwards to graduate black physicians.  Are they any good?  Yes, but how long can such a warped culture continue to deliver excellence?

Much of the friction between us is “blame throwing.”  Blacks blame whites for their problems in life when they went through school hating white teachers and white people in general.  That destroys black potential.  When you are a minority hate is a losing emotion.  The black father who sits at the dinner table and expresses hate for white people who are “Holding us back!” is dispensing hate poisoning young minds.  He should not say it even if it is true!  Always give your kids a chance!

In seven years of teaching Chemistry in Los Angeles I only had one such student and saw his anger from the front of the room.  He chose the last row.  I went to the office, got his schedule, saw that he had PE with one of our black PE coaches, I met with his coach, explained my concerns and asked for his help.  In one week I had a very different young man in my class and he did very well because his gym coach convinced him I was "OK."

It takes that kind of focus and collaboration now, but can we pay that kind of attention to each one of a room of 30 angry students for five classes?  The solution is in the homes:  Do not torpedo your own kids.  "And there lies the rub," in the words of the immortal bard, Shakespeare.

70% of all “black” children do not have fathers in the home. We need to find ways to get fathers back in their children’s homes and fight their jungle ways of impregnating many women.  One is the number now.  The key is in employing black fathers and that means they must learn marketable skills and some ask can they?

When “black” ancestors were taken from the jungles of darkest Africa they came to America from cultures without a written language, history or mathematics that went beyond “One, two, three, many…” or anything we have in a civilized curriculum.  This does not say “blacks” do not have the intellectual capability to learn.  Input  "250 black Ph.D.s” to Google and see 250 who got our highest degrees before 1920! Imagine what those people had to overcome!  Some dated back well into the 19^th century!  They proved the point of black equality!

Extensive IQ testing has shown Orientals have the highest IQs of all the races. They have had the longest marriage and family traditions. Caucasians are next in the listing of IQ groups followed by Native Americans, aka “Indians” and last are “blacks” with the difference between each group of 0.1 IQ point!  That is statistically insignificant!  There is no excuse for thinking “blacks” cannot learn as well as anyone else.  We all have much the same potential because we are really one species!  The differences are in education and culture.  Culture in the home.

“Blacks” are much closer to their tribal roots where issues were settled by power.  The most powerful person in a tribe was right all the time. For  tribes in an Eden that is OK, but in a modern culture it is not.  Facts matter.  Now “Blacks” are much quicker to resort to combat than any other group in our time. Blacks are 10,000 years closer to the beginnings of social development than any group on Earth than the Native American who also is a smaller, weaker person as a rule.

“Blacks” larger size and greater strength serves them well in all sports but swimming.  Where their muscle mass is more dense than any other race  they sink in water and have to expend 15% of their energy to stay on the surface.  There will never be a world champion “black” swimmer, but there will always be an 85% roster of players in the NFL, NBA and any other sport with high power demands.  In the two recent killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks both were large, powerful “black” men arrested and resisted trying to overcome smaller white officers, but falling to their numbers in one case and a gun in the second. But Floyd had overdosed on the drug Fentanyl and was a dying man walking as the official autopsy showed according to the official Minneapolis County Coroner.

“Blacks” turn to violence when this recently acquired culture threatens them.  This can only be overcome with education as “blacks” are as capable as are we intellectually, but have not been well taught to accept their new reality.  The Google database of 250 black Ph.Ds” search output documents 250 men and women “of color,” since the mid 19^th century to 1920, earned Ph.D. degrees across the fields of academia.  The question is no longer, “Can they do it?” but “How can we help it happen?”

Adrian Vance