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Entry: Bitch-Slapping Barack Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/btich_slapping_barack#24332 Post contents: What happened to blacks AFTER the 60s was in some ways worse than what happened before. They were finally welcomed into the American mainstream--just as the New Left was poisoning it. They were invited into big cities---to take the manufacturing jobs we were about to ship overseas. They listened to our songs (and some of their own) and got into the drug culture--but didn't have rich parents to support them while they went into the Peace Corps or rehab. They got the invitation to collect from social programs--just as those social programs became morally neutral (welfare workers stopped visiting homes, sniffing people's breath, etc., around 1960). (I'm just glad my Irish ancestors didn't arrive, poor and unskilled, in the Newark of 1965.) None of this was intentional, but it happened. None of it justifies affirmative action, or even the anti-discrimination bureaucracy we've set up. But it's real, and pretending it isn't makes us look like bastards. Sent at: 2008 07 06