If All Whites Moved Out of USA, How Would It Solve Inner-City Problems?

Robert Woodson: If All Whites Moved Out of USA, How Would It Solve Inner-City Problems?

By Susan Jones
May 12, 2015

(CNSNews.com) - The solution to poverty begins in the neighborhoods and the people affected by it, says Robert Woodson, the founder and president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.

"You always have to begin with a solution in mind," Woodson told CSPAN Tuesday morning in a discussion on poverty. "I tell people, what is your solution? If all whites tomorrow were to move to Canada and Europe, tell me how it would affect the black on black crime rate, how would it it affect the out-of-wedlock births, how would it affect the spread of AIDS? How would it affect those issues?" he asked.

"What I'm saying to Black America, we must stop victimizaton. We must stop complaining about what white folks have done to us in the past. We must go into ourselves, as Dr. King said, and find indelible ink -- our own emancipation proclamation."

Woodson's organization goes into low-income communities and seeks out leaders and "moral mentors" to help solve the problems they understand so well.

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"When you bring people together where you are motivated by solutions and not complaining about what others have done, it is amazing how much entrepreneurial energy exists within these high-crime neighborhoods," he said.

"Young men who have been to prison...if they can drive, it means they can drive taxicabs in high-crime areas. My point is, we should be using all of our energy to try and promote innovative approaches to poverty rather than just trying to find excuses. There's nothing more lethal than a good excuse for failure -- institutional racism, whatever that means.

"We need to just stop it, and we need to begin to concentrate on what we can do to elevate and lift ourselves, regardless of the resistance that other people may impose on us."

Woodson noted that government anti-poverty programs have made poor people a "commodity" for "a professional class of providers." He said that most of the trillions of dollars spent on poverty in America don't go to the poor, but to those who serve poor people -- and who "need poor people for their own existence."

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Mr. Woodson has a good point. If we all followed the teaching and words of Martin Luther King Jr., we might all be better off. Yet, those who have profited by using racism through elevation of the problem causing riots, looting, arson and murder do not further the cause of equality. Indeed trillions have been spent on poverty, but it always seems to end up in the pockets of this claiming to be helping the poverty stricken and the oppressed. If all white people moved out of the US, nothing would improve and like Haiti the people left would remain in poverty be oppressed even greater than ever before.

 

If All Whites Moved Out of USA, How Would It Solve Inner-City Problems?

Sounds like a question for SNL, not a rational discussion.

 

I actually like Malcom X much more than MLK.

He didn't make excuses for anything.

 

I think it will be better if all blacks moved out of the USA. This will solve our problems.

 

If I were you I'd be contacting Mr.Robert Woodson about his hypothetical thesis.....

 

Let's not, and say we did.

 

Blimey!, It's been a long time since I heard or read that expression.....

 

You and Mr woodson, start the train, we'll all hop on. You 2 1st.

 

Colonialism ruined black culture.

Is there any evidence that Africa was particularly violence before the Europeans arrived and "civilized" them?

 

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Apr 18, 2014 - In The Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley talks with Robert L. Woodson Sr. about the real barriers to upward mobility and the 'poverty Pentagon.' Robert L. Woodson Sr. is a no-nonsense black conservative who heads the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and knows a thing or two about that culture, the nation's inner cities.

 

They were very violent actually.

 

Gosh, It's a miracle that they didn't eradicate themselves before the 'peaceful' Europeans saved them from themselves.

 

As we all so well know today, they breed faster than they perish.

 

I would be worse, since there would be no money for welfare.

 

Of course whites are not going to move out of the U.S. but the OP makes you think and makes you answer the questions. Sad that many just dodge the questions. But that's the tactic when they don't like the answers. "Can we talk".

 

Sure,let's talk. About what? The OP didn't offer any commentary.
Are we white folks some who are not near large black communities suppose to have answers to the questions in the article?

 

Two words to those who agree with this OP


"You first."

 

Its just history, Africa was not a peaceful continent in any shape or form.

I suppose you think Native Americans were also running around in a Disney movie before the Europeans showed up.

 

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I lost just a small percentage of my intelligence, reading the title.

 

No matter where you live you could discuss the questions. Here's the questions -- go ahead and take a stab at the answers . . .
"You always have to begin with a solution in mind," Woodson told CSPAN Tuesday morning in a discussion on poverty. "I tell people, what is your solution? If all whites tomorrow were to move to Canada and Europe, tell me how it would affect the black on black crime rate, how would it it affect the out-of-wedlock births, how would it affect the spread of AIDS? How would it affect those issues?" he asked.

 

Sadly, this isn't the most racists thing I've read today.

 

Well, cheer up. Most racists are old...and the young ones are losers who usually end up brewing meth in their trailers and later become the "prison wife" of the block's Aryan Brotherhood leader.

 

The only peaceful continent was Antarctica, and Africans certainly didn't need to be 'saved'.

... and killed almost all of them. But no, the indigenous people were the aggressors, right?

 

I've seen that in the pro-Confederate flag rallies. Ignorance and obesity is a common theme and they don't look like the kind of people who live long, healthy, enjoyable lives.

 

Can't we have an opinion without the racist charge?