Why should millions of perfectly normal adolescents, not all of them ghettoized, resist being educated? The reason is that they know deep down that due to the color of their skin, less is expected of them.
The only cure is tough times...…………………………….
“they know deep down that due to the color of their skin, less is expected of them.”
Last night when channel surfing I stumbled on the abysmal FNC show, “The Next Revolotion”. He’s British - now US citizen, I think - and supposedly a conservative. Typical talk show (blah blah blah).
THEN the limey went in to a preachy rant about the evils of white privelege in America - how blacks don’t get any breaks, they score lower in tests, they earn less money, etc., and it’s OUR fault. His solution? Reparations (yes, he, an alleged conservative used that word) in different forms. He, a Brit, presumed to tell us how to fix things here. He was still blathering when I flipped to my go-to safe TV space, rapes and murders on ID, which usually is better than politics.
I tried to find an email address for his show, but it seems nobody uses email any more, and the only options are FB and Twitter.
The Bigotry of Low Expectations.
More powerful than most people realize.