What if NPR is right?

The Virginian ^ | 9/20/2009 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

NPR commentator Frank James has chosen to excuse the the ACORN personnel who are willing to help an assumed pimp and prostitute to set up a brothel, import under-age Central American children to become sex slaves, avoid taxes and scam the banks. He attributes this to the culture of the black underclass.

It's also important to keep in mind that ACORN's workers are coming from the same low-income neighborhoods the organization serves, with all that entails -- poor schools, high crime and the sorts of social problems that have been documented for decades.

NPR has been accused of racism by Liberals (see comments on the NPR website) and conservatives alike who deny that this is what black culture is all about. Yet look at the videos. The ACORN personnel don’t bat an eye to these proposals. No “are you sure that you should be doing this?” Not “what you’re proposing is illegal.” No disgust at the open discussion of selling young children to sexual predators for profit.

... James may have a point. Black culture – or certain parts of it – may not see anything wrong with pimps, “Ho’s” and importing teen aged Central American children for sexual exploitation, not to mention cheating on your taxes and lying to the bank. It does explain a lot of black music videos on MTV....

[Dem Guard]

I suppose this applies to black an minority politicians too.
We should cut them some slack because they don’t know any better than to be lying, cheating, thieves?

[paulycy]

I wonder if there will be a new production of "West Side Story" with Black Americans as the Jets and Hispanic Americans as the Sharks?

It seems like you just can't put all this whining about certain problems into context without having seen Officer Krupke.

Just this one song alone should be mandatory viewing in school, not to mention the whole movie/musical. It's just too true.

[Rocky]

Well... the ACORN woman in the San Bernardino office was white. She was also nuts, but that’s another matter. I didn’t see the Brooklyn video, or the San Diego one, so I can’t comment on those. But I did see enough to know it wasn’t just black people involved.

And I also don’t buy the idea that being in the inner city means that you don’t know right from wrong. The Democrats have done everything they can to blur the difference between right and wrong over the past few decades, and to excuse all manner of transgressions, but I think most people in the inner city still know the difference.

[cripplecreek]

Once again, being black doesn’t have anything to do with it. Plenty of crooked white politicians around.

[hinckley buzzard]

The underclass crosses racial lines, although historically it has been largely the urban Black underclass that has received the most attention. No question, there is a stratum of society, largely invisible to the rest of the culture, in which the usual rules are meaningless.

That should not be taken as an exoneration however; it is simply an acknowledgment that some of us are worse dirtbags than the rest of us imagine.

[hinckley buzzard]

The underclass crosses racial lines, although historically it has been largely the urban Black underclass that has received the most attention. No question, there is a stratum of society, largely invisible to the rest of the culture, in which the usual rules are meaningless.

That should not be taken as an exoneration however; it is simply an acknowledgment that some of us are worse dirtbags than the rest of us imagine.

[jedi150]

It looks like in order to qualify for employment with ACORN you must first appear on the Jerry Springer show.

I hate this term but Trailer Trash comes to mind.

[goat granny]

Oh Oh, not all hillbilly’s are as portrayed in Deliverance...so too many that live in house trailers...