Fareed Zakaria's Mistake: Only Black Run America can explain the Rise of the Rest

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapsing would cause a lot of Black people to be unemployed. We have discussed why this is a problem of utmost concern to those in charge of Black Run America (BRA). Another federal agency, the United States Postal Service, is on the verge of running out of cash.

The idea of Forced Busing once prompted people to react

The government –- federal, state, and local – has long been responsible for providing employment for Black people. Take a look at the breakdown of New York City government employees here.  Agencies that have a significant share of white employees have been chastised; agencies with a significant share of Black employment deal primarily with dead-beat Black people:

 Overall, the city workforce is 38 percent white, 36 percent black, 18 percent Latino and 6 percent Asian, according to statistics from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (which, unlike the Census, considers race and Latino origin to be mutually exclusive). So the municipal workforce is slightly skewed toward whites and significantly skewed toward blacks. Latinos and Asians are substantially under-represented.

However, several departments deviate substantially from these overall numbers. The Fire Department is 77 percent white. Several smaller departments (the Landmarks Commission, Office of Emergency Management, Civilian Complaint Review Board and Office of the Mayor) are also more than 50 percent white.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Department of Juvenile Justice is 78 percent black. The Equal Employment Practices Commission is 63 percent black and the larger agencies of Human Resources, Correction and Children's Services are all more than 60 percent black.

Firefighter prospects that are Black have difficulty passing a test that has been tailored to their specific educational needs. That is the reason for the paucity of Black firefighters. 

The Postal Service is an organization that Blacks lean on heavily to provide steady employment, as figures from 1996 indicate that out of 800,000 workers, 21.1 percent were Black (the same number as the TSA now).  The numbers for 2002 (last that we could find) were roughly the same. It should be noted that two of the top 10 jobs with the highest Black representation in America are with the post office. 

Richard Spencer’s words on the post office and the overrepresentation of Black people employed in public jobs ring true here:

In 2007, the advocacy group Adversity.net examined the racial hiring practices of Washington’s Executive Departments and Independent Agencies, from the Department of Education to NASA. The group discovered that with a very few exceptions, federal entities dramatically overfulfill their “Diversity” quotas. Indeed, the best agencies at hiring Blacks put the Post Office of lore to shame: the Controlled Substance Ordering System, the Government Printing Office, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, for instance, overhire Blacks at 800, 500, and 400 percent, respectively.  Even the “worst” agency for employing African-Americans, über-nerdy NASA, overhires Blacks at a clip of 50 percent.

In this line, government entities have increasingly dropped their mission of, well, governing in favor of the greater cause of minority outreach and empowerment. In America, one could lament, the Black man is either dead or in jail—or enjoying guaranteed benefits working at the State Department.

Austerity measures to the federal government are coming, just as state governments and local governments will be forced to make budget cuts. What does this mean? In a nation governed by sound economic principles that would translate to using tax dollars efficiently and staying within budget and the scrapping of unproductive agencies and employees, right? 

This nation is governed by Black Run America, so throw those thoughts out the window:

"It's really especially poignant that this year during Black History Month, the Republican leadership has proposed a budget for fiscal year 2011 that will fall most heavily, mind you, on the backs of the most vulnerable in our society: African Americans, Latinos, and poor, those who have been shut of the American dream," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who described the cuts as ill-timed and destructive. 

"At a time when we should be remembering and uplifting the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans, to the history, culture, civil rights and economy of America, we are literally during this month debating steps that will severely undercut and undermine that legacy," she said.

Lee also criticized Republicans for saying "so be it" when asked their reaction to the idea that cuts to government spending might hurt U.S. job growth. "So be it," she repeated. "That's not what the Civil Rights movement was about."

Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) also connected the spending cuts to civil rights, and said improving the GOP spending bill is imperative. "I do believe that if we focus on these continuing resolutions that we've been debating, we can have a much better future than the history has been for African Americans in this country," Clyburn said.

"This is not befitting of the final day of African American History [Month]," added Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of the spending cut plans.

H.R. 1 would cut more than $61 billion from current funding levels, but is not expected to move forward in the Democratic Senate. However, the House on Tuesday is expected to approve a two-week spending bill that cuts $4 billion from current spending levels. The $4 billion in spending reductions would include hundreds of millions of cuts in education, health, housing, energy and water programs.

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) made a point of saying that spending cuts could hurt all Americans, including African Americans, and said he would fight to maintain funding for certain programs. "We will fight to protect the Department of Education," he said as an example, adding that it "means something" to have that department.

My allegiances are with Pre-Obama America, a nation long gone. Watch Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to get a taste of what that means or, better yet, understand why the Honor Code at Brigham Young University is such a contentious issue. 

The code there once reflected life on all campuses, if not all of America. OneSTDV is right when he writes about Disingenuous White Liberals trying to normalize Black dysfunction. It’s just that that dysfunction is reaching the point where it is crippling this nation’s ability to compete in the global marketplace. 

That’s why I laugh when reading this Time piece by Fareed Zakaria:

Despite the hyped talk of China's rise, most Americans operate on the assumption that the U.S. is still No. 1.

But is it? Yes, the U.S. remains the world's largest economy, and we have the largest military by far, the most dynamic technology companies and a highly entrepreneurial climate. But these are snapshots of where we are right now. The decisions that created today's growth — decisions about education, infrastructure and the like — were made decades ago. What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. Look at some underlying measures today, and you will wonder about the future. (Watch TIME's video "Why Cities Are Key to American Success in the 21st Century.")

The following rankings come from various lists, but they all tell the same story. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), our 15-year-olds rank 17th in the world in science and 25th in math. We rank 12th among developed countries in college graduation (down from No. 1 for decades). We come in 79th in elementary-school enrollment. Our infrastructure is ranked 23rd in the world, well behind that of every other major advanced economy. American health numbers are stunning for a rich country: based on studies by the OECD and the World Health Organization, we're 27th in life expectancy, 18th in diabetes and first in obesity. Only a few decades ago, the U.S. stood tall in such rankings. No more. There are some areas in which we are still clearly No. 1, but they're not ones we usually brag about. We have the most guns. We have the most crime among rich countries. And, of course, we have by far the largest amount of debt in the world.

The Rise of the Rest

Many of these changes have taken place not because of America's missteps but because other countries are now playing the same game we are — and playing to win. There is a familiar refrain offered when these concerns are raised: "We heard all this in the 1980s. Japan was going to dominate the globe. It didn't happen, and America ended up back on top." It's a fair point as far as it goes. Japan did not manage to become the world's richest country — though for three decades it had the second largest economy and even now has the third largest. It is also a relatively small country. To become the largest economy in the world, it would have to have a per capita GDP twice that of the U.S. China would need to have an average income only one-fourth that of the U.S. to develop an economy that would surpass ours.

But this misses the broader point. The Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, who has just written a book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, puts things in historical context: "For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps — competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization."

It’s funny: everything that Mr. Zakarian delineates as reasons for America’s loss of status coincides with the drop in overall white percentage of population. Those rising problems he cites are problematic because of a seventh KILLER application that is indigenous in the West.

And guess what the secret sauce -- the seventh KILLER application that sets the West apart -- of undoing that 500 years of creation the West (okay, we do mean white people here) is responsible for?

The belief in absolute equality coupled with a maddening devotion to egalitarianism.  As Steve Sailer has shown, Mr. Zakaria, white students do just fine on aptitude tests. It is that rising tide of color in the United States that drags down the overall academic success rate of teenagers in the United States.

Those students are largely Black (and Brown).

And for some reason, Black people have the belief that the future is so bright, they’ll have to wear shades. Still can’t explain that one.

Our infrastructure spending is poor because we have been busy trying to improve the family structure and overall health of the Black community. That has been a monumental failure. Obesity rates? In 30 years, all Black women will be considered morbidly obese in America, stressing an already overburdened medical field to the breaking point.

We have the most crime of the rich countries because we have the highest percentage of Black people. It might be a Hate Fact, but Black people commit a disproportionate amount of the crime (violent or petty) in this nation.

Other Western nations that have allowed Black people to settle in their lands have seen a spike in crime (looking at you England, France and Sweden).

It is our intense, almost perverse, devotion to uplifting every Black person so that they no longer have to practice Waiting for “Superman” that threatens the economic stability of this nation.

Unemployable in the private sector, the public sector has been saturated with Black people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should have fallen already, but the force of BRA is much too strong to allow companies that have more than 50 percent minority employees to fail.

The USPS would have gone out of business years ago if it had stockholders to answer to; in our world, it is a commodity that is just too big to fail for reasons that only an understanding of BRA can explain.

Here’s the ultimate question to every conservative, Tea Party activist, libertarian, and Ayn Rand worshipper who can only produce moments of levity by reading Atlas Shrugged:

Do you understand that saving what is left of America means completely dismantling every last vestige of Black Run America? It means rejecting equality and egalitarianism, ideas that rule over the hearts and minds of those in power. In essence, do you really want Atlas to shrug?

That seventh killer application from the West, which enabled Black Run America to form in the process, has fueled the so-called Rise of the Rest because it enabled the funding of a dream that nurture could supplant nature. 

It is SBPDL’s opinion that that dream is going to come to a sudden, dramatic end.

For those wondering, I’ll be on Angry White Dude’s radio show tonight at around 8:20. And this Saturday, I’ll be on the Political Cesspool. I recommend listening.