Jim Brown, Intelligence, and the Real USA

Guys like Jim Brown know what they're talking about.  He's bummed that "in 2017" these protests are taking place.

This guy suffered real racism.  He was lucky/unlucky to grow up in Cleveland.  He grew up poor, but Cleveland wasn't nearly as bad as other parts of the country.  Still, he was surrounded by street gangs (I heard an unconfirmed story that he led one of those gangs.)

Since he retired from football, he's been very much the activist, doing his best to salvage at-risk kids in the black community.

Jim knows the real problems.  The welfare system is one.  It became a generational way of life, and destroyed the family unit.  It undermined the work ethic, and for that matter moral code.  The male role models were mostly criminals, because their fathers were no where to be found.

Racism and discrimination still exist...somewhere, I guess, but Jim Brown is honest enough to recognize that these protests are a sick, infantile joke.  

Jim has told you, this is the greatest country on Earth.  That's partly because he's lived through an era of transormational evolution, and seen racism go from George Wallace and Bull Connor to a whisper, on life support.  He himself was one of those who knocked down those walls.

Whites and blacks were murdered fighting for civil rights.  Fire hoses, beatings, dogs...we won that fight!  It didn't die all at once, but faded steadily as the old dogs died, and new generations grew up together.

That's why he does the charity work he does:

He tells kids, don't you believe the crap guys like Sharpton, Farakahn and Jackson are peddling.  They tell you you don't have a chance so you don't try.  You don't try, you don't make it.  That's their racket.  They're the problem, not the solution.

I know that Jim and I would have some debates about affirmative action and stuff, but well...click the link.

Seth DeValve?  Your kids can become the President, or neurosurgeons, or POLICE Commissioners.  They can live where they want.  All of you sheep need to grow up.  Or, as JB puts it, be "intelligent".