Surveying the current situation, It would seem so…
As Ernst Schreiber points out, Blacks have been enjoying Endangered Species Status for many decades now:
The problem is that blacks are a legally protected class.
The human version of an endangered species, as it were.
Just another example of how political correctness and the hierarchy of victimhood warp our perception of Real Life (TM).
The thing is: during those decades when some [key word] Blacks took advantage of this Status, Blacks as a whole in America weren’t actually qualified to be labeled thus. While their situation was not what it should have been, progress was being made every day and their situation was constantly improving. Attitudes were changing slowly, more naturally [key word], but they were definitely changing for the better [give Americans time and they show themselves to be quite noble — such is the way of Republics where Freedom and Ordered Liberty hold sway, but, most especially, in this unique one].
The Early Civil Rights Movement sought to kick-up the speed of this attitudinal change. It’s leaders, at first, resisted the efforts of the Hard Left [especially those of Communists in America taking orders (and monies) from Moscow] to direct it’s activities. But, eventually, many of the leaders of the Movements succumbed to the Radicalization efforts of the Left In America.
And the Race Hucksters emerged — Blacks who, in their anger and Moral Corruption, sought to loot their ‘oppressors’ Eventually, in their rabid and corrupted state, these Hucksters began to prey on their own people [more on this to come in a guest post by K-Bob].
At the same time, Leftist Whites successfully pushed through Legislation that created The Great Society, a set of programs that provided incentives for Dependency on government — soul-sucking initiatives that sought to destroy the Family and remove it from the center of Life.
While these programs were successful in undermining all races, in the Black families they were particularly successful because the Left targeted them for special attention [the Left’s Dark Secret: it’s leaders have always assumed non-Whites are less intelligent and, therefore more easily exploitable]. The sub-par conditions of Blacks in American Society were more easily exploited, the righteous anger was stoked from a simmering flame into a raging inferno that often was out of control in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
It eventually settled down into a steady fire, but this was only because a new way of operating / subverting was adopted by the Left In America that was designed to overthrow the existing American System not through violent Revolution, but by destroying it from within. And that required more seemingly-peaceful means.
However, the flame of anger was always there to be stoked when necessary.
For the first six years of the regime of the first half-Black President [who had never, by the way, endured the conditions most Blacks in America faced], those flames were constantly being stirred-up into blazes, but a curious thing started to also occur concurrently: the targeting of ‘Hispanics’ for special attention by the Left.
As the Left In America began to lavish the ‘Hispanics’ with considerations, they quietly began to turn their attentions away from the Blacks. Sure, they continued to use them to sow unrest and Chaos in American Society [witness the recent protests over the Grand Jury verdicts in Ferguson and New York], but the Left began to take actions that would undermine the Black Community they had so carefully nurtured and cultivated for decades.
The push for Amnesty for Illegal Aliens and the encouragement of as many ‘Hispanics’ as possible to illegal come to America both are undermining the conditions of Blacks in this country. While these Aliens will take away low-paying jobs from Blacks, they will, more importantly, scoff-up more of the government services [monies and access to health care] Blacks have been trained to expect as by Right. Their piece of the dependent pie will be cut smaller. And, if demographic predictions are proven correct, eventually the ‘Hispanics’ will outnumber the Blacks, thus rendering the latter’s political power less important to the Left.
Now, couple this ‘sad’ fact with the fact that Blacks make-up an unusually high percentage of the abortions being performed in this country* and it makes you wonder if Blacks in America have finally, indeed, become an actual Endangered Species.
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*From a recent The Daily Caller report by Sarah Hurtubise, based on a recent CDC report [tip of the fedora to Jill Stanek]:
The race of the victims is disproportionately skewed as well. Non-Hispanic black women had the highest rate of abortion — for every 1,000 black women between the ages of 15 and 44 years, 29.7 had abortions in 2011. Non-Hispanic black women accounted for 36.2 percent of all abortions that year; non-Hispanic white women accounted for 37.2 percent.
That’s a serious skew — the 2013, the Census Bureau reported that in the U.S. at large, 62.6 percent of people in the country were non-Hispanic white alone, while 13.2 percent were black or African American alone.
