Posted on 07/08/2005 8:34:29 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
As for the recent cross burnings you mention - those things rarely happen nowadays... everyone knows that there are still a few fringe lunatics that do such things, however they are universally condemned.
Here's what it all boils down to - the black community needs to change their hearts/culture. They have to stop glorifying the pimp/gangsta lifestyle. They have to speak out against treating black women as sex objects. They have to start condemning casual sex. (Fatherless children are an epidemic in the black community, and the prisons are filled with them as you know). They have to stop denigrating those who try to succeed in school for trying to "be white". This all needs to come from the top. Their "spokespeople" need to quit running around looking for "racism" and playing victim, and start concentrating their efforts on what the black community really needs - a change of heart/culture. Once that change starts to permeate the community the rest will follow.
If you want to dwell on the past and continue to make excuses that's fine. You're just not helping the situation any. People are capable of overcoming adversity - that's what we need to talk about, instead of "learned helplessness" theory.
Why was Astrolabe's comment (#40) removed? I didn't agree with it, but I didn't see anything in it that warranted deletion.
Oh yes. Back when I was doing sociology reports in high school it was the "best of the best" of welfare systems. Not only would Chicagoans move to Milwaukee for the checks, but the welfare system paid more for each kid you had on welfare!!!
It should not have come as a shock when out of wedlock welfare kids were being born in great numbers throughout the 80's.
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