Why Is It Important For the Left To Have The American Negro To Look Back

With the premiere of the eight-episode docudrama series National Geographic Genius: MLK/X supposedly shining light on the “formative years” of Negro American civil rights icon Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. on the first day of Black History Month, I again have to ask myself what is Hollywood’s and the Political Left’s obsession with depicting the Negro Americans treatment during America’s past, whether it is during the slave period or the 1960’s civil rights period?  It doesn’t ever seem to be followed by an attempt to resolve, solve, or give a true accounting to how it happened and how to see that it never happens again.

Are we seeking truth from Disney now?  Really?

Lets question why is Disney doing this today while it is firmly entrenched in wokism, where they seem to wholeheartedly believe that a man can be a woman biologically.  Shouldn’t the most passive observer question their motives and intentions in this matter regarding such pivotal characters who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the Negro community?  Seriously question.

But, I do not stop with Disney’s most current attempt to have the eyes and the minds of the Negro American, and that of Americans in general, to be looking back in the rear-view mirror of America’s least pleasant times for the Negro, but that of the whole entertainment and Hollywood machine.

Let’s look at some of the most known Hollywood creations depicting characters and events during the Civil Rights Period and slavery: Twelve Years A Slave (2013), Glory (1989), Lincoln (2012), Red Tails (2012), 42 (2013), Separate But Equal  (1991), The Rosa Parks Story (2002), The Long Walk Home (1990), 4 Little Girls (1997), Mississippi Burning (1988), All The Way  (2016), Selma  (2014), Malcolm X (1992), Ghost of Mississippi (1996), and many more.  My first question when it comes to movies and such that are created to tell the story of Negroes in America during periods such as these are, one, what is the ethnicity of the Producer and Director, what is the intent of the creation, what is the motive behind the creation, and more important, is it factually based.  To me, it is one thing if someone is seeking to honestly educate me on something or are they wanting to mentally manipulate me and tell me lies or half-truths to further their agenda.

Conquer racism just by stop talking about it.

I agree with iconic actor Morgan Freeman when he retorted in his classic interview with the late great newsman Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes when Mr. Wallace asked Mr. Freeman “How are we going to get rid of racism?” and Mr. Freeman quickly responded by stating “Stop talking about it.”  It’s kinda like someone recovering from an abusive relationship. But, rather than talk about how much their lives have gotten better and point out the positives in their lives currently since being removed from that traumatic and terrifying situation, they just want to talk about the bad times and the abuse and showing them pictures of the beatings of that time over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. Never attempting to come to a resolution. What is the benefit of focusing on the painful events or negative times in one’s life?  None!  So why do the Left and the Democrats seem to be fixated on keeping Negroes in America, and Americans in general, emotionally reliving the pain of the slave period and the Civil Rights era of the 60’s?  Because that’s how they gain power and keep the Negro voting for them and keep some Caucasians unnecessarily feeling guilty for the past actions of strangers.

The Left never lets the truth get in the way of the agenda.

Here’s what the Left and the Dems do not what to shine a light on regarding the Negro in America:

• First, the much-celebrated Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a response to the growth of the Democrat-controlled Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws. This came after the Voting Rights Act of 1866 which recognized that everyone, including the Negro, has Civil Rights.  Both of these laws were largely opposed by the Democrat Party.
• According to a 2021 DOJ report, Black Victims of Violent Crime, 70.3% of Offenders Are Fellow Blacks , 10.6% of Offenders Are White.
• The most dramatic reduction in poverty among blacks occurred between 1940 and 1960, when the black poverty rate was cut almost in half, without any major government programs of the Great Society kind that began in the 1960s. [Thomas Sowell] This was largely due to the North’s booming war industry during WW II and the migration of the Negro from the South.
• It was then, and is so today, the Democrat and Leftist social engineering programs and policies that hurt the Negro socially and economically. The harshest and most repressive jurisdictions during the Civil Rights Era were Democrat-controlled. Today, can you name one Democrat-controlled jurisdiction where the Negro is not catching hell socially and economically compared to Republican-controlled jurisdiction?.  I’ll wait…
• What eats at my heart more than anything regarding the plight of the Negro in America, is that LBJ changed the Social Security benefits requirements that banned the man [child’s father] from the home of a single woman receiving federal economic support, the unmarried women head of households skyrocketed from 20% to as high as much as 80%.  Thomas Sowell prophetically stated, “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.”
• Between 1890 and 1954 shows that black Americans were just as active – and sometimes more – in the labor market than their white counterparts. In 1900, for example, black unemployment was 15 percent lower than white unemployment. In 2017, it was 30 percent higher.
• Black Americans today are also more dependent on government aid than they were in 1968. About 40% of Negro-Americans are poor enough to qualify for welfare, housing assistance, and other government programs that offer modest support to families living under the poverty line…That’s higher than any other U.S. racial group. Just 21% of Latinos, 18% Asian-Americans, and 17% of whites are on welfare.
• Today, the Current Population Survey (CPS) recent survey of households conducted by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that Median Usual Weekly Earnings (Second Quartile), Employed Full Time, Wage and Salary Workers, High School Graduates, No College, 25 Years and Over, the Negro [Black] is at the lowest $38,844. Followed by Asians [$40,768], Hispanics [$41,340], and Caucasians [$45,968].  And of the ethnic groups ages 25 years and older, it is the Negro in the back of the class again in achieving a Bachelor’s degree or higher with a paltry 25%.
• The Negro American household wealth was $4.98 trillion in the last quarter of 2022. That’s AFTER taxes. If this was the GDP of a nation, would be third behind Communist China and the U.S.
• Out of the world’s 16 Black billionaires, 10 of them are Americans. And the U.S. has a substantial number of Black millionaires compared to other countries.  8% of U.S. millionaires are Negro/ Black.
• [20%], Caucasian [38%] and Asian [56%] – there goes the” America is a racist nation” argument.

Who benefits from lying is the question.

Do we as Negroes in America have unique challenges and obstacles in America.  Yes, of course. But by being so blessed as to be an American, living here in this country where unlike any other on the planet each of us has been recognized to have the God-given right to be able to achieve any goal and aspiration imaginable, what is the benefit to be reminded of or dwell in past pains?  Who benefits from the constant and repeated depiction [defined as a representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration] of the American Negro in negative conditions and situations may be the more important question.  If you allow yourself to be constantly looking back at your negatives and have you view yourself in unpleasant depictions, never reaching a resolution, how will you be able to see your blessings of today? Your energy flows where your focus goes. If you are so focused on taking care of the blessing of today and preparing for the promise of tomorrow, you’d have little time to fixate on the trouble of yesterday.  Imagine where the Negro in America would be if we just took stock in our blessings, held to our true moral compass, and ensured that our home community was strong and always striving for a better tomorrow.