The following is Blog number thirty-six and is part of the ongoing Racial Reconciliation in America Series. A number of posts will be made in this segment of the Series as we discuss The Black American Family. This post is entitled: The Black American Family – Enduring Foolishness.

RACIAL RECONCILIATION

THE BLACK FAMILY

ENDURING FOOLISHNESS

Webster’s Online Dictionary defines the work “foolish” in this fashion : “having or showing a lack of good sense or judgment”

Full Definition of FOOLISH : 1 :  lacking in sense, judgment, or discretion 2 a :  absurd, ridiculous b :  marked by a loss of composure :  nonplussed 3 :  insignificant, trifling — fool·ish·ly adverb

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/13/ryans-inner-city-comments-sparking-backlash/

You know America, there are times that watching the news is just not a good idea! We saw a report of Paul Ryan’s most recent foolishness on CNN yesterday. This is what makes our quest of Racial Reconciliation in America so necessary, next to impossible and interestingly enough very timely. We are undeterred.

You see this is the foolishness that makes America bend one way versus another in her opinion regarding Black folk generally and the plight of the Black family specifically. This type of propaganda communicated by those with the microphone such as Bill Bennett and Paul Ryan develops in other White folk: 1) a perception of Black sloth, 2) Blacks as an immoral people, 3) Blacks as intellectually weak and 4) Blacks as a violent and dangerous culture.

This is not new. This White propaganda about Black folk has always been. Even when White folk were doing all the violence while watching Black Slaves do all the labor they called them lazy. What is most foolish is that White folk like Ryan and Bennett take no consideration of the danger that they represent for today’s America.

As a nation we will choose to change our thinking about Black people and the plight of real suffering and struggle or we will continue along the path of our destruction. Some White folk may foolishly choose to believe Ryan and Bennett.

These men believe the plight of the poor has nothing to do with public policy, but rather some foolish survival of the fittest notion, as though this is a Godly thing. This is certainly not a social construct for human beings! These men and their constituency actually believe that it is the governmental social safety net that is the actual cause of urban poverty. Proclaiming get a job while not producing one piece of job creating legislation! Utter foolishness this is.

Now some White folk may even believe that the plight of the Black family is caused simply by Black sloth. We do not accept that the majority of White folk believe such foolishness. What we do believe is that the Will of White men like Paul Ryan must succumb to actual truth. We believe in a Holy Ghost truth not the atheist Ayn Rand's philosophy of survival of the fittest that Paul Ryan yet seems to follow as his truth!

Paul Ryan's policies and practices show an ignorance to truth; sustains a damaged Godless Will and must be bent unto righteousness. Now, in the dictionary a word related to the word foolish is the word dumb. White men like Paul Ryan represent a dumb and woeful foolishness of the true Black culture. Though Mr. Ryan may have dated a Black female and is rumored to have a Black sister-in law, just like Mr. Strom Thurmond who fathered a Black child, Paul Ryan clearly lacks understanding of and caring for actual Black life. He is ignorant of:

1.   The true mores of the Black man, who is actually very paternal.

2.   The awesome, painful everyday struggle of the Black family and more generally the working poor.

3.   The high intellectual prowess of the Black people historically and present day.

4. The Will of Black folk to endure the circumstances of life, endure dumb ass  White men who may be in control of power, and still rise in spite of both.

5.  The strength of Black women who must endure a society in which her boys and men represents a new form of Slavery that is the American Pipeline to Prison.