Adding both books to my reading list.
1 posted on
03/07/2015 6:06:16 PM PST by
NRx
To: NRx
As usual, the author doesn’t take into account the dumbing down of American cultureespecially politicsin the past 50 years. The conclusions become irrelevant.
2 posted on
03/07/2015 6:17:11 PM PST by
Misterioso
(Islam: It's them or us.)
To: NRx
I read Riley’s book a while back......terrific.
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3 posted on
03/07/2015 6:20:10 PM PST by
Mears
(To learn, who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."0~~Voltaire))
To: NRx
4 posted on
03/07/2015 6:34:25 PM PST by
ExCTCitizen
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To: NRx
" [he says] that having a black man in the Oval Office is less important than having one in the home, a curious thought from a successful black man whose father, though having left home when Riley was a small child, nonetheless conscientiously managed to parent him. A thoroughly misinformed chapter on culture not only trots out the usual inaccuracies about hip-hops influence but, failing to recognize the diversity of African-American cultures, proceeds to libel the entire group with the assertion that black culture today not only condones delinquency and thuggery but celebrates it.
1. The fact that his father was an exception to the rule somehow disproves the rule? It's a "curious thought" that fatherless families breed delinquency and crime?
2. What are the "usual inaccuracies" about hip-hop's influence?
To: NRx
There are indeed various "black cultures" within America, but most of the ones that are not dysfunctional are either the cultures of recent immigrants (who are often traditionally religious), the culture of the Black (Christian) church, and the culture of Black Islam. They are all struggling against the same destructive tendencies that the authors of these books are talking about.
They are relatively small subcultures within the larger culture of black America, and it is in that larger, secular, post-modern, rap-influenced culture, where most of the problems lie.
To: NRx
To most conservatives, the period, with few exceptions, was a terrible turn for the worse.
A lie from the pit of hell!
8 posted on
03/07/2015 6:53:38 PM PST by
logitech
(It is time.)
To: NRx; All
11 posted on
03/07/2015 7:37:29 PM PST by
ProtectOurFreedom
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