[sinanju]

This is a long read, but I think we could all use some good news today. I think we're going to be hearing a lot from this young black academic in the near future. You might assume he came from a "Cosby kid" background but nothing could be further from the truth:

"How many of his close family members, I asked him, had either died young or spent time in prison? He did a quick count: 8 of 10. ''Suppose you can separate people into two camps: geneticists and environmentalists,'' he said. ''Coming up where I came up, it's hard not to be an environmentalist.''

Having seen what he has seen growing up, he seems bound and determined to take on all the usual racialist sacred cows. I trust he already understands from the examples of fellow academics Thomas Sowell, John McWhorter, et al. that it can be a difficult row to how.

[Jibaholic]

I read the article but I wasn't impressed. This guy has a long ways to go if he is going to enter the league of scholars like Sowell or Williams. I was optimistic at first, but once the article mentioned that his hero was DuBois you knew where he stood. By the time we got the story of his experiments with offerent economic rewards to innercity schoolchildren without addressing issues like family and out-of-wedlock childbirths then that judgement was confirmed. He is a "mend it, don't end it" liberal.

[jolie560]

The topics being studied and written about by Roland Gehrard Fryer Jr. deserve to be presented on news shows like FOX. FOX could perform an immense information and community service by publicizing these research articles, doing interviews with Mr Fryer and his colleagues, and inviting commentary by other "experts" in the field.

Instead of FOX wasting our time with endless overkill on Court cases, FOX could be a TV News asset instead of a TV News Buffoon.

[popdonnelly]

The title of the article is what got me. How do you come up with a unified theory of Black America? I thought Blacks were different, even from each other. Isn't this an invitation to stereotyping?

[razorback-bert]

How dark skinned is he, I understand that is very important at Harvard now?

[Malesherbes]

I believe this is a repeat - unless the New York Times is so enchanted by Fryer that it is running a weekly series on him.

[ken21]

i read the article and felt that it led the reader on.

my expectations were to find some of his ideas.

there were no ideas, just a lotta whoopla from the nyt about a black guy.

apparently they're feeling the need to not look like racists or something, especially after their blair fiasco.