Conservatism & Multiculturalism

Conservatism is often associated with nostalgia.  We are a nation of immigrants.  Even our First Nation's people crossed the Bearing Sea/land bridge to North America.  Our nation owes our rich culture to immigrants from around the world.  In one respect all of our immigrants saw America as an opportunity the be free and free to carve a new stamp of culture and entrepreneurship that enabled America to be forward looking and not bound by centuries of "conserving' the cultures of the past. 

It is the mistaken "conservative" view of culture that has impeded the success of people not considered to be Americans that has left some cultures behind and unable to generate generational wealth.

It's easy for the majority population to blame poverty on the people living in poverty.  Only targeted groups in our population follow this pattern, while other immigrants continue to succeed and add to our economy (the richest in the world).  

"Conservatives" object to government programs that are designed to lift people out of poverty.  But successful efforts at creating opportunities in these cases actually creates wealth for the entire community.  And that happened for blacks at the end of the Civil War.  It only lasted for one generation.  Then whites erected barriers that greatly restricted the rights of blacks.  

Another era in black/white history was in the early 1900's.  Blacks had thriving business districts in eight cities around America.  But white race riots in the 20's and 30's destroyed all of them.  Today's modern equivalent is "urban renewal".

All of what I wrote is verifiable.  But lest "Google" would chastise me for copyright violations; I'll leave it up to you to verify what I write.

And to add what I wrote I ask you to look at my blog "look away".  Also look up the history of Mississippi.  Before the Civil War Mississippi was the richest State in America.  But all that was lost when Jim Crow restrictions limited the economic opportunities for blacks and threatened their lives.  The economic growth in Mississippi stagnated due to blacks not allowed to build wealth for themselves and also limited the prosperity of whites.

One economic measure is the "velocity" of the dollar.  A dollar bill could be passed along eight times on average.  every dollar that blacks could have earned was not added to the total income of Mississippi.  Exclusion made the State poor.  Inclusion could have returned the State to its previous posterity.

The "Lost Cause" narrative needs to be scrapped and whites and blacks work together and for each other.  How could a nation of immigrants not naturally follow this pattern?  It is the people who look only to their own culture and then blame the excluded populations for their poverty.   

Jef 4 Revival    

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