Re:Culture still doesn’t explain poverty
by tsotha on Monday January 17, 2011 @10:29PM
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>In other words, you are saying African-American culture is the sole reason for all the problems blacks face in the U.S?
Let me reword it a little and say I believe African-American culture is the sole reason for the additional problems blacks face in the U.S. today. You're never going to convince me blacks looking for an education or a job have a tougher time in 2010 than they did in 1960.
The destruction of the black family is the reason the numbers are so appalling today. Black people, more than any other demographic, are having children out of wedlock. Whitey isn't to blame for that. Black boys grow up without fathers in greater numbers and then, predictably, fail in greater numbers when it's time to become men. Somehow that cycle needs to be broken, but the break is going to have to come from within the black community. No amount of well-intentioned intervention from white liberals and government is going to be enough.
Let me reword it a little and say I believe African-American culture is the sole reason for the additional problems blacks face in the U.S. today. You're never going to convince me blacks looking for an education or a job have a tougher time in 2010 than they did in 1960.
The destruction of the black family is the reason the numbers are so appalling today. Black people, more than any other demographic, are having children out of wedlock. Whitey isn't to blame for that. Black boys grow up without fathers in greater numbers and then, predictably, fail in greater numbers when it's time to become men. Somehow that cycle needs to be broken, but the break is going to have to come from within the black community. No amount of well-intentioned intervention from white liberals and government is going to be enough.