^^^^^^THIS is that honest conversation on race that the coward Eric Holder said Americans were too cowardly to have.^^^^^
Yet anytime someone tries to have this honest conversation, they're attacked viciously and called "racists" by the political left and the race-baiting blacks who use race as a weapon. That is an almost perfect summation of my views on the disgusting use of race from democrats in America for decades. It's all based on falsehoods and lies. On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 10:17:30 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." > > Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. > To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other > Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate > webpage at www.creators.com . > > https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/07/16/what-can-discrimination-explain > > -- -- 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.
