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Where Is the Black Silent Majority?
“Most black people know that George Floyd is no more representative of blacks than Derek Chauvin is of police officers. They know that the frequency of black encounters with law enforcement has far more to do with black crime rates than with racially biased policing. They know that young black men have far more to fear from their peers than from the cops. And they know that the rioters are opportunists, not revolutionaries.” — Jason Riley
In his WSJ article, Jason Riley referred to a quote from Daniel Patrick Moynihan where he wrote that there “is a silent black majority as well as a white one” and that “it shares most of the concerns of its white counterpart.”
Jason Riley is a man of wisdom, and he happens to be black. But his comment surprised me. Perhaps the majority of black people can see through the lies and distortion of information about law enforcement and the black community. But if that’s true, I continue to be puzzled by the loud voices of what Mr. Riley calls the black minority, and how they seem to be driving the agenda of black Americans.
I know that old habits are hard to break, such as the black community voting for Democrats. But many of us expect that more black people will begin to publically act like they share more values with the greater community than with the extreme. How much longer will they justify their support of Democrats? When will they have reached their limit in tolerating the black extremists? When will they finally act like they understand that the Democrats despise them and expect them to vote for them? When will they decide that they are alone at the ballot box and no one can stand over them and force them to vote against their own interests?
I think the time is now.
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What about them? What percentage of them are on Ricochet?
When you are now talking about the percentage of those inclined to post on a place like Ricochet 10% of the adults of 13% of the population, that number is pretty small.
Blacks have voted in block fashion for Democrats my entire life. They have been taken for granted and abused by the white racist democrats. It will never change.
That’s what I was wondering.
And if they simply don’t want to be cast by some member as the representative black for the black questions that paint all blacks as a monolithic underclass failing to break their chains because they’ve bought into the lies of their exploiters? So they stay behind the veil to debate without having to carry that millstone of stupid because melanin?
The Internet is a beautiful thing.
My guess would be it is disproportionately low. Ricochet isn’t too easy to find, which, I suppose has some big advantages; but some drawbacks too.