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Hard Questions

Posted by Michael on Friday, October 13, 2006 8:51:20 PM
My friend Danielle posted on her MySpace blog what she calls "Hard Questions." Danielle's one of the coolest people you'll ever meet, and we both changed from liberal to conservative at about the same time.

In this blog I will pose a number of tough questions that go through my mind at times. Feel free to answer any of them.

1)If "racism" and "oppression" are the explanation for Black underachievement, explain to me why West Indian and African immigrants are outperforming we Black Americans in education and income?

2)From 1948 to 1967, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were under Jordanian and Egyptian control respectively. Why didn't Egypt and Jordan give the Palestinians a state during this period?

3)To the anti-Semitic nutcases of all stripes who say that today's Jews are not the "real Jews: Why, on God's green earth, would these people want to lie about being Jews?For two thousand plus years they have faced persecution and death at the hands of hateful people.. If they were impostors as you claim, wouldn't it have made sense for them to just stop lying and admit that they are not Jews? Why suffer through all that hatred for nothing?

4)Why is it overlooked that Great Britain worked the hardest to abolish slavery-not just in its empires but throughout the world?(See Thomas Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals for more info)?

5)Why are the multiple benefits of Western civilization ignored and its faults amplified?

6)Why are the faults of non-Western societies glossed over?

7)Why was South Africa (justly I may add) boycotted so strenuously while Black African dictators and tyrants were generally ignored? I'm sure we can all remember the "Free South Africa" marches from that decade. But where were the "Free Uganda", "Free Liberia", "Free Zaire", "Free Ethiopia" marches and protests? Does the world only care about oppression and injustice if the perpetrators are White?

8)We have made many advances in treating AIDS and prolonging the lives of those infected with HIV. But this comes at a cost. The virus mutates and as it does more drugs must be developed to treat it. As the political, social and financial costs from this epidemic continue to mount, shouldn't we start giving more airtime to methods like abstinence and marital fidelity?

I answered her questions to the best of my abiity:

1) Because West Indians and Africans come from environments of real oppression and lack of freedom, and know freedom when they see it.

2) Because the Palestinian issue is not as simple as we've grown accustomed to hearing, or as I believed it to be for a long time.

3) I don't understand this question.

4) The myth of the "evil white man" has been created and people won't allow it to be destroyed by facts. The fact that Britain and later America were the first countries in the world to ban slavery is indeed significant.

5) Because the Left is still in love with socialism and by effect tin pot populist dictators like Hugo Chavez.

6) See above.

7) Shit, I haven't ever thought of it that way. I guess since Africa's injustices don't affect us directly, we prefer to ignore them. And I imagine South Africa's struggle was easy to hook along with that of the civil rights champions in America.

8) Yes, but that would make us prudes.

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