On the Urban Intellectual Facebook page the other day, someone mentioned there is an idiot in every village. Well, to that gentleman, I apologize because we just found him. His name is Bishop Wellington Boone.
The African American pastor did something I thought I would never hear in my life. He blamed the weakened state of the black family on the Civil Rights Movement, not the myriad of decimating actions taken by the Government, hang over effects of slavery, urban renewal, prison industrial complex, the New Jim Crow, discrimination, jailing of our fathers, the drug and gang epidemic brought about by COINTELPRO, crack cocain, poor schooling, institutional racism, and much more.
The Pastor overlooks all of these things and settles on the Civil Rights Movement as the chief culprit. Even with all the issues we have with the Civil Rights Movement and the results of it, this is the most idiotic claim I think I have ever heard, but don’t take my word for it. Let’s hear what Bishop Boone has to say for himself.
Due to the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans “went in one election cycle from being 95% Republican to 70 to 80 percent Democrat – from that point, blacks began to change their mentality from the provision of God and the church to the provision of government,” Bishop Wellington Boone, a church leader and bestselling author, said. He spoke at the conservative Heritage Foundation on Thursday as part of the Coalition of African American Pastors’ Leadership Conference.
After describing a social system where pastors encouraged men to provide for their families and churches stepped in to help the poor, Boone blamed the Civil Rights Movement for separating the family from the church and weakening the commitment of black men and women to each other. “The Civil Rights Movement led those same people from the steps of the altars to the steps of the Federal Government,” he declared.
When marriages break up, “social cost runs high, government increases, and social mobility declines,” Ryan Anderson, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Society at the Heritage Foundation, explained.
Anderson did not fully explain the link between family decline and increase in the size and scope of government, but he quoted then-Senator Barack Obama’s words, “We know the statistics – that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
This is just ridiculous, but I guess I shouldn’t expect anything less from an African American speaking at the Heritage Foundation. If you don’t know anything about this foundation, then do about 6 seconds of research to find out this is one of the most, far right leaning think tanks on the planet.
The Pastor clearly needs a history lesson to answer the question of WHY DID BLACKS ABANDON the Republican party? Doesn’t take a genius to know the Dixi-Crats, as they were called, left the Democratic Party for the Republican party and forced blacks to switch as well. Strom Thurmond, Bull O’Conner and every other white imperialist that wanted to wipe black people off the face of the earth were behind this decision and if he doesn’t want to even speak on this issue, then there is nothing UI has to say to this “Pastor”, but WE FOUND THE VILLAGE IDIOT!!
Furthermore, I believe the issues I laid out in the second paragraph have had a far greater impact on the African American family than those mentioned by the “Pastor”, but what do you think?
Does the Pastor have a point or is he the idiot I believe him to be?
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