[LearsFool]

And why is that?

Because the culture tends to repeat the cycle from one generation to the next.

Don't misunderstand me: I'm not absolving anyone of his crimes, laziness or other irresponsible and unmanly behavior. Certainly individuals, through great effort, can and do break free of the cultural ruts. They are to be applauded, of course.

My argument, though, focuses on the ruts: Who made them, and why? No doubt blacks themselves bear much responsibility. And (call me racist if you like) innate racial proclivities have contributed.

But slavery having been rejected as a solution to what white Northerners called "the negro problem", and Margaret Sanger's eugenics solution (i.e. abortion of "undesirable" black babies) having been rejected publicly as abhorrent, those who wish to keep blacks in an underclass position have had to resort to other means.

To discover what means they've used, we must look for factors which blacks have not chosen for themselves. (Again, this is not to absolve them from responsibility. But that's another discussion in itself.)

The question is, "Who loses from minimum wage increases?" My answer is, "By design, black society in America loses."

[Just another Joe]

The question is, "Who loses from minimum wage increases?" My answer is, "By design, black society in America loses."

I'll give you that this is the question and that is your answer.

I don't believe it takes a "great amount of effort" to break free of the cycle, only the minimum amount required by anyone else trying to better themselves.