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The biggest problem are the lack of jobs. No one can have pride or feel productive if they cannot work for their living.
Yes, the racists are bad, but all those including the Obama administration who ignore the issues of high unemployment and high welfare are the bigger problem.
He mentions how in the past social norms where passed within the communities years ago. For example when an Italian kid was caught stealing his parents or grandparents not only yell about it being wrong but how it was going to reflex on the Italian community as a whole.
What happened in the black communities was after the white flight the middle-class blacks also began taking off and there days there isn't that strong moral compass which is needed in the inner cities.
The writer is also asked if he worries his book will give an intellectual argument to hate groups. He replys that it's because a frank discussion about problems within many within the black community aren't being allowed that hate groups on the right and race profiteers on the left flourish.
Here we go with the "inner city" thing again.
Do most blacks in this country live in the "inner city?"
I'm really getting tired of this bullsh*t notion that the inner city experience is the only black experience in America. Damn.
Interesting take on the black community and racism.
Do you agree or disagree with the author?
My problem with his whole theory is that he groups all Black Americans as one monolithic group, as places characteristics on them as a group. That's a classic example of racism.
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I'm really getting tired of this bullsh*t notion that the inner city experience is the only black experience in America. Damn.
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Originally Posted by JazzyTallGuy
My problem with his whole theory is that he groups all Black Americans as one monolithic group, as places characteristics on them as a group. That's a classic example of racism.
He mentions there are two groups within the cultural. Those which benefitted from government programs such as AA that are now middle class and who followed the white flight out of many cities and those who remained.
The biggest problem are the lack of jobs. No one can have pride or feel productive if they cannot work for their living.
Yes, the racists are bad, but all those including the Obama administration who ignore the issues of high unemployment and high welfare are the bigger problem.
It's a vicious cycle. Ghetto culture doesn't encourage the young to want to do well in grade school and develop the right attitude needed to succeed in the job market. Then when they become adults, they are undesirable as employees for a career path job.
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