It's like blaming bush it only works for so long. On Aug 1, 2016 10:30 PM, "'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum" < [email protected]> wrote:
> > When Eric Holder claimed that Americans were too cowardly to have an > honest conversation on race, all I could think was he's right - because too > many people actually believe the countless bs excuses detailed above for > why so many black people struggle in America, and too many others are > either afraid or tired of being attacked for having that honest > conversation that accurately pinpoints the blame on the breakdown of the > families and the utter disdain for education held by far too many. And > yeah, it doesn't help that blacks trapped in failing schools in the > nation's largest cities keep electing democrats who have proven for years > that it's never about the kids, but rather always about the teacher's > unions' money. > > On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 10:35:49 AM UTC-4, MJ wrote: >> >> >> July 27, 2016 >> >> *What Can Discrimination Explain? *By Walter E.Williams >> >> A guiding principle for physicians is primum non nocere, the Latin >> expression for "first, do no harm." In order not to do harm, whether it's >> with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is >> accurate diagnostics. >> >> Racial discrimination is seen as the cause of many problems of black >> Americans. No one argues that racial discrimination does not exist or does >> not have effects. The relevant question, as far as policy and resource >> allocation are concerned, is: How much of what we see is caused by current >> racial discrimination? >> >> From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, black youth unemployment was >> slightly less than or equal to white youth unemployment. Today black youth >> unemployment is at least double that of white youth unemployment. Would >> anyone try to explain the difference with the argument that there was less >> racial discrimination during the '40s and '50s than today? >> >> Some argue that it is the "legacy of slavery" and societal racism that >> now explain the social pathology in many black neighborhoods. Today's black >> illegitimacy rate is about 73 percent. When I was a youngster, during the >> 1940s, illegitimacy was around 15 percent. In the same period, about 80 >> percent of black children were born inside marriage. In fact, historian >> Herbert Gutman, in an article titled "Persistent Myths about the >> Afro-American Family" in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn >> 1975), reported the percentage of black two-parent families, depending on >> the city, ranged from 75 to 90 percent. Today only a little over 30 percent >> of black children are raised in two-parent households. The importance of >> these and other statistics showing greater stability and less pathology >> among blacks in earlier periods is that they put a lie to today's excuses. >> Namely, at a time when blacks were closer to slavery, faced far more >> discrimination, faced more poverty and had fewer opportunities, there was >> not the kind of social pathology and weak family structure we see today. >> >> According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes >> referred to as The Nation's Report Card, nationally, the average black >> 12th-grader's test scores are either basic or below basic in reading, >> writing, math and science. "Below basic" is the score received when a >> student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and >> skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. "Basic" >> indicates only partial mastery. Put another way, the average black >> 12th-grader has the academic achievement level of the average white >> seventh- or eighth-grader. In some cities, there's even a larger >> achievement gap. >> >> Is this a result of racial discrimination? Hardly. The cities where black >> academic achievement is the lowest are the very cities where Democrats have >> been in charge for decades and where blacks have been mayors, city >> councilors, superintendents, school principals and teachers. Plus, these >> cities have large educational budgets. I am not arguing a causal >> relationship between black political control and poor performance. I am >> arguing that one would be hard put to blame the academic rot on racial >> discrimination. If the Ku Klux Klan wanted to destroy black academic >> achievement, it could not find a better means for doing so than encouraging >> the educational status quo in most cities. >> >> Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of so many >> blacks on poverty, racial discrimination and the "legacy of slavery" are >> complicit in the socio-economic and moral decay. But one can earn money, >> prestige and power in the victimhood game. As Booker T. Washington long ago >> observed, "there is another class of coloured people who make a business of >> keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race >> before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out >> of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising >> their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it >> pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, >> because they do not want to lose their jobs." >> >> http://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams >> > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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