>>92785788The problem is that blacks have "cultural leaders". Not inherently a bad thing, but it'd be like someone taking Dworkin and enshrining her as some ideal for all women to be... and yes I'm aware some asshats do that. The point is that for the better part of 45 years the only people with a huge voice in the community writ large were self serving cunts like Jackson and Sharpton who managed to sneak their foot in the door when more competent social leaders ended up dead or disenfranchised.
Think about the Harlem Renaissance. At one point the black community was all about bettering themselves. Making a marked addition to the culture of the country and being worthwhile people, even if it was in a slightly different way. Now you've got the people at the top professing how it's not the peoples fault that life is shit and how it's totally an outside force doing all this. Same with jerkoffs like Richard Spencer, there's just a tiny amount of relevant/true info in what they're saying that makes it appealing to people. Something sounds at least a little right, and also absolves me of all the bad crap in my life? Get me on board.
Looking at poor, white, rural areas gives a lot of insight into the issues with black communities. There's an oppressive air of desperation. It's for different reasons, but you can see the hopelessness in both areas permeate their lives. Rural areas affected by a changing economy losing their effective revenue for their area hits hard. When adults can't find meaning and just barely struggle by, it hits the children hard and reinforces it all. Then the younger generation attempts to leave for the prospect of a better life, but that's not economically viable for everyone so while some can escape the slow death spiral of the area, those remaining are left even more disenfranchised. It's a really, really, shit cycle and there isn't some easy magic solution to decades of being ground down by that pervasive lack of hope or a belief in a future.
