What’s Holding Black Kids Back?

City Journal ^ | Spring 2005 | Kay S. Hymowitz

[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[Meldrim]

They could have read any book written by Thomas Sowell within the last two decades and gotten the answer to this.

[Dallas59]

Learning and education is not a "white" thing.

[Lando Lincoln]

Ping to my FRiends,

Lando

[Meldrim]

Precisely.

[bitt]

If Corsi doesn't run, in 2006 or 2008, then Bill Cosby should run against Fat Boy Kennedy in 2006 for Senator/Massachusetts.

[GSlob]

Murray and Herrnstein.

[bc boy]

If black kids really are deliberately held back...and i sincerely hope that isn't the case...then let's look at their role models starting with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton...let's look at the ACLU and finally Hollywood's black beauties...maybe these kids do have an uphill fight and that should be corrected and guess what...us fat butted whitefolks can actually help out big time if guys like Sharpton and Jackson will just shut their mouths for awhile and give us a legitimate chance to help out!!!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Bump and self ping

[traviskicks]

This guy said the same thing several times over, but only danced around the root of the real reason for the increase in single black mother hood. These charts should illustrate what was occuring:

http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm

This is why I think Cosby is wrong. Blaming bad parenting is blaming a symptom, not the cause. The cause is government.

[cyborg]

"You are your own worst enemy" comes to mind. Inner city living breeds a certain mentality and peer group and a black child must be born with fierce independence in order to overcome the mental drowsiness that is encouraged by the peer group AND by the political power structure involved who are usually black democrats. The 'inner city' is the perfect democrat model of the slave plantation of old. Keep the workers ignorant and stupid and at each other's throats.

[eccentric]

unconscious racism

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1389356/posts

[Petronski]

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

[cyborg]

That's all well and good BUT short on solutions and thus renders itself a fatalistic work useful for nothing, especially not to black people.

[cyborg]

exactly

[lainde]

excellent article!

[warsaw44]

Years ago I used to take the public train to and from work here in Boston. The company was located at the very edge of Boston ' proper ' and the sections of Boston named Allston / Brighton. On a regular basis I needed to take the train back into the center of town for various tasks. Mostly these trips were to make a bank deposit for the company at a specific time. On many occasions I'd board the train while it was filled with High School students headed home.
I'd always see the Black students at one end of the train and the Asian students at the other. It really was the strangest of sights.
The Black students were not carrying books or backpacks. Many were making out. Some were listening to music. They were yelling and screaming and on one occasion I saw a huge fight break out among the young men.
At the front of the train the Asian students all had huge pack packs filled with books, they were reading, studying and a handful were quietly talking among themselves.
I saw this over and over again.
They all went to the same high school.
It just struck me as terribly sad.

[clee1]

Single-parent homes and a pi$$-poor work ethic?

[BP2]

What’s Holding Black Kids Back?

Guys like this:

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

"white" thing
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Nor is getting out of bed and getting dressed to go get your free education!
Why does initiative and self discipline seem to be a negative?
I remember when JJ and Sharpy virtually crucified Sec'y Rice. It was abominable! I keep telling my 11 yr old son he can bring her home to meet his momma any time!