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Glad to see the responses in this thread
In an earlier story I posted, there was something called "self-reliance liberalism" mentioned. It's something that we are going to have to stop talking about and start practicing.
We should have practiced it YEARS ago. I'm dating myself here, but I saw this coming in the 1980s with the compassion fatigue when the late Pres. Reagan was re-elected. It crystallized in 1996, when Proposition 209 was passed in California.
We don't really have the strong moral appeal that we had during the heyday of the civil rights era.
Yes, I know that 40 years of civil rights isn't going to undo 200 to 500 years of slavery and its aftermath.
But there's enough of us who have done well. Somehow, we have to figure out what the successful among native-born, several generation AfAms (as well as immigrants from African countries and West Indian countries and their kids) are doing and transfer it to the wider body.
I don't see any simple solutions.
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