[mhking]

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[cyborg]

Why is it so important to define black culture? The minute it's defined, then that's what people will think black people should only do. Then there will be black people doing things not enumerated within that culture who will be seen as doing things 'not black'.

[BraveMan]

Sorry Mr. Maxwell. The items you speak of have absolutely nothing to do with "Black Culture" or any perceived need to redefine it.

Substitute "Tupac" with "Eminem", "Warren Sapp" with "Bill Romanowski", "black" with "white", "race-traitor" with "cross-burner", "African-American" with "Anglo-American" and the epithet "Uncle Tom" with "Nigger Lover". Now read the article again.

On extolling the virtues of a return to a more civilized society, the article has its merits. However, this article has nothing more to do with redefining "Black Culture" any more than it has to do with redefining "White Culture". Mr. Maxwell's attempts to put such a narrow focus on black culture does everyone a great disservice.

[EveningStar]

Thanks for the ping, Michael. I just emailed this article to Larry Elder.

[xJones]

These are questions I ponder daily. I have convinced myself that the time has come for mature African-Americans to redefine black culture. Mature blacks must wrest back from the Sapps and Tupacs the values that sustained our people during the long years when de facto and de jure practices guaranteed our third-class citizenship.

We must relearn the sentiments of self-determination and introspection. We should not tolerate another black-on-black killing, another neighbor's house being invaded, another ounce of cocaine being sold on our streets, another adult luring a boy into a deadly confrontation with the police, another child lollygagging and never opening a book.

I love this guy, but does he realize that he's not just talking about black Americans? Lower, dumbed down standards are rampant in all segments of U.S. society.

It's the "I'm a victim, so everybody owes me" game that is played by the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, and their surrogate white and hispanic Democratic counterparts. The design is to keep the leadership rolling in money, and they must have a miserable, self-destructive underclass always in need to sustain them. The massas can whip up said underclass when votes are needed, and then let the neanderthals sink back down into hopeless lives until the next time the rent-a-mob is needed.

The author is right that common sense in raising our young is crucial, but common sense has not in been vogue for a long time.

And on a completely different tack, I wonder why Republican leaders are allowing a huge new underclass of illegals to overrun our country, particularly with Homeland Security supposedly in charge. Illegals provide cheap labor, yes, but it's the average U.S. taxpayers who are paying all their social benefits and other expenses, while living next to the only ethnic group to ever illegally enter the U.S. by the millions, and who don't even have to learn English. No problemo, we'll print your voting forms in Espanol. < /rant>