The following extract came from this article: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/26/the-moochers-credo “. . . ‘Wow, this is the crab bucket syndrome.’ It's well known among police officers, social workers and community organizers (like Barack Obama) that one of the most difficult and tragic phenomena in African-American ghettoes is that when one individual starts succeeding at something, like crabs hanging onto the legs of another crab trying to escape the bucket, everybody will impede his or her progress to the point making it impossible for them to escape into the outside world. For a while there was a practice in eastern cities known as "kneecapping," where a young athlete who was showing promise as a basketball player would have his kneecaps broken so that he could not leave his buddies behind. Any student who tries hard to succeed at school is accused of ‘acting white.’” "We're the ones who made you what you are!" "You never would have gotten anywhere without us!" "You owe us!" These are the common cries of people who are afraid they will come up short. And of course all this glides easily into, "You're not going anywhere unless you take us." The way Hussein wages class warfare breeds racism. The two are inseparable though seldom examined in discussions about race; so it is reasonable to conclude the crab bucket syndrome has evolved into a collective political posture in the black community as opposed to African Americans simply holding black individuals down. Basically, the black Americans Hussein’s class warfare appeals to are saying “Nobody of any color is going to get ahead until we get our way.” Their way usually means government jobs and welfare state programs. NOTE: I’ll probably be called a racist for quoting Pat Buchanan. Pat does not include the breakdown on government jobs at the state, county, and city levels: Though only 12 percent to 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks hold 18 percent of all federal jobs. African-Americans are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of State Department employees, 37 percent of the Department of Education, 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., 55 percent of the Government Printing Office, 82 percent of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. According to The Washington Post, blacks hold 44 percent of the jobs at Fannie Mae and 50 percent of the jobs at Freddie Mac. The EEOC, where African-Americans are overrepresented by 300 percent, has been asked to oversee the new "government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce." I'm not making this up. Pat Buchanan Obama's Race-Based Spoils System 8/26/2011 http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/08/26/obamas_race-based_spoils_system The effects of the crab bucket syndrome are obvious in socialism/communism, yet few associate black racism with socialism while knowledgeable Americans see class warfare as a socialist mainstay. Coincidentally, Ayn Rand reversed the crab bucket syndrome in Atlas Shrugged when the world’s producers stopped feeding the parasites. I should point out that Socialists can very easily form communities where they take care of each other without contributing to society as a whole. In fact, they tried collectivist societies in the past and failed. They don’t do it today because they learned that collectivism cannot survive without controlling the public purse in order to feed on the productive members of society. Please take the time to listen to John Galt’s very lengthy speech in three parts. There is so much in the speech, both practical and philosophical, that exposes collectivism for the monster it is —— it is a must-read for every person who was ever frustrated by one of socialism’s many tentacles. More than anyone else, Ayn Rand lops off the monster’s head rather than trying to defeat collectivism by cutting off one tentacle at a time. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfIOHRm-YxY&feature=related"]John Galt Speech FULL part 1 of 3 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istRE8I0LvE&feature=related"]John Galt Speech FULL part 2 of 3 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz-xxXwJjuI&feature=related"]John Galt Speech FULL part 3 of 3 - YouTube[/ame] Finally, Ayn Rand’s critics often accuse her of being cold-hearted because she denigrated charity as part of her case for individualism. I do not read her as uncaring. I think she was more against coerced charity than she was against charity itself. I doubt very much if she was against charity freely given. My view makes more sense than does the view of her many detractors because collectivism, and the parasite class, depend upon coerced charity for survival. Here’s Hussein’s class warfare with no mention of the racism connection: Rehabilitating Class Warfare by John Hayward Posted 09/26/2011 ET Updated 09/26/2011 ET http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46459
Great stuff Flanders. No need to add anything since that one posting tells it all in a black crab shell.
