When Whites Just Don’t Get It: After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less (Groan)

The New York Times ^ | August 30, 2014 | Nicholas Kristof

[blu]

K, I’m just gonna step right up and say it. Generally, I do not believe in blaming the parents of kids gone bad, but in this case, I do.

It is safe to blame a lot of black youth’s problems on their mothers. The same mothers who don’t make them get their ass out of bed and go to school. The same mothers who teach the culture of poverty, and perpetuate the lifestyle.

I am not saying all black mothers are to blame, but a lot of them are.

Oh, the fathers? Well, see, they’re not there, because their fathers weren’t there because somewhere in the past, some black mom didn’t say to her son “You wanna act all grown up and have babies? Get a ring on that girl, and get a job, and make a home.” (hint to mothers: sometimes, this speech is best delivered while you are standing on a kitchen chair).

I am also not saying this problem is confined to blacks, but since all the stats apply to blacks, well, that’s my opinion.

[GOPJ]

Also, whites and blacks who make the EXACT SAME INCOME have wildly different net worths after 30 years. That's because whites buy homes, pay the mortgage, open an IRA and sometimes DO WITHOUT. Blacks tend to be more impulsive. Blacks are the only racial group that (in fairly high percentages) will walk into a car dealership and pays full price for a car.

Other racial groups can come to the United States with the shirts on their backs - and little else - and in 3 generations be OUT of the ghetto... because they make better decisions.

[Ouderkirk]

I repeat the old line..

You want to play lumberjack....you need to handle your end of the saw.

The black “establishment” tells blacks that they don’t have to.

[Jim Noble]

Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students

Yes.

[Gene Eric]

>> Nicholas Kristof

Prince of smug. GFY, a-hole.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Three generations? Many do it in one or two.

[clintonh8r]

Assuming the accuracy of those “facts”, why is any of that the fault, or even the concern, of white people? How am I involved in that? Why do I need to hear more about it?

[2ndDivisionVet]

YOU SHOULD CARE, DARN IT! LOL

[Larry381]

blacks get proportionately a large slice of benefits, of free food, free phones, free camps, free transportation, and free college...

Years ago my black girlfriend went to Temple Univ and every month she received a $250 grant for as long as she agreed not to leave school.
According to her these grants were only available to minority students who were not employed. She also received travel expenses(she lived in NY.)to and from school.

[45semi]

Their philosophy is:
If it benefits blacks, it's good.
If it benefits blacks AND hurts whites, it's better.

[blam]

"Like: maybe there is some problem holding Blacks back that has nothing to do with racism??"

Are you thinking of low IQ?

[Dagnabitt]

Blacks kill people at a rate seven times that of non-blacks.

Any discussion of race needs that fact on the table.

[Dagnabitt]

Anytime some idiot tries to discuss “white privilege”, demand to first discuss “Asian recent immigrant privilege”.

[Rashputin]

The only whites that don’t get it have their butts firmly planted in media and government jobs where they’re well isolated from reality.

[driftless2]

Just another “all black problems are whitey’s fault” by another deluded, white lib. Move along.

[Darren McCarty]

I agree. Whites don’t get it. White leftists are the biggest problem for blacks - and whites - in this country.

[okie01]

Why are you so shocked Nicholas? It’s TRUE!

Ah, but it's not true in LiberalWorld -- a mysterious region outside of space and time that co-exists with reality, but only liberals can see.

[Pining_4_TX]

Gibsmedat

[Rome2000]

https://archive.org/details/americannegroinc00unit

[1035rep]

“Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.”

This is good news. I knew the liberals would wear out that race card. Obama has set race relations back 40 years and whitey just doesn’t care anymore.