When hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their prey. They would synchronize their steps on the side of the horse away from their prey until they were close enough for a good shot. A stalking horse had a double benefit if the prey was an armed person. If the stalkers were discovered, it would be the horse that took the first shot.
That's what blacks are to liberals and progressives in their efforts to transform America -- stalking horses.
Let's look at it.
I'll just list a few pieces of the leftist
agenda that would be unachievable without black political support.
Black people are the major victims of the grossly rotten education in our
big-city schools.
The average black 12th-grader can read, write and compute no
better than a white seventh- or eighth-grader.
Many black parents want better
and safer schools for their children.
According to a 2015 survey of black parents, 72 percent "favor public
charter schools, and 70 percent favor a system that would create vouchers
parents could use to cover tuition for those who want to enroll their children
in a private or parochial school."
Black politicians and civil rights
organizations fight tooth and nail against charter schools and education
vouchers.
Why?
The National Education Association sees charters and vouchers as
a threat to its education monopoly. It is able to use black politicians and
civil rights organizations as stalking horses in its fight to protect its
education monopoly.
The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was
the nation's first federally mandated minimum wage law.
Its explicit intent was
to discriminate against black construction workers.
During the legislative
debate on the Davis-Bacon Act, quite a few congressmen, along with union
leaders, expressed their racist intentions.
Rep. Miles Allgood, D-Ala., said: "Reference
has been made to a contractor from Alabama who went to New York with bootleg
labor. This is a fact. That contractor has cheap colored labor that he
transports, and he puts them in cabins, and it is labor of that sort that is in
competition with white labor throughout the country."
American Federation
of Labor President William Green said, "Colored labor is being sought to
demoralize wage rates."
The Davis-Bacon Act is still law today.
Supporters do not
use the 1931 racist language to support it.
Plus, nearly every black member of
Congress supports the Davis-Bacon Act.
But that does not change its racially
discriminatory effects.
In recent decades, the Davis-Bacon Act has been
challenged, and it has prevailed.
That would not be the case without unions' political
and financial support to black members of Congress to secure their votes.
Crime is a major problem in many black
neighborhoods.
In 2016, there were close to 8,000 blacks murdered, mostly
by other blacks.
In that year, 233 blacks were killed by police.
Which deaths
receive the most attention from politicians, civil rights groups and white
liberals and bring out marches, demonstrations and political pontification?
It's the blacks killed by police.
There's little protest against the horrible
and dangerous conditions under which many poor and law-abiding black people
must live.
Political hustlers blame their condition on poverty and racism --
ignoring the fact that poverty and racism were much greater yesteryear when
there was not nearly the same amount of chaos.
Also ignored is the fact that
the dangerous living conditions worsened under a black president's
administration.
There are several recommendations that I might make.
The
first and most important is that black Americans stop being useful tools for
the leftist hate-America agenda.
As for black politicians and civil rights
leaders, if they're going to sell their people down the river, they should
demand a higher price.
For example, if black congressmen vote in support of the
Davis-Bacon Act, they ought to demand that construction unions give 30 percent
of the jobs to black workers.
Finally, many black problems are exacerbated by
white liberal guilt.
White liberals ought to stop feeling guilty so that
they can be more respectful in their relationships with black Americans.
