[XpandTheEkonomy]

There is a moderately large (say, ten million) population of third-world people living among us. Most of them are of African descent, but most Americans of African descent are not like them. These people of whom I speak are not in a position to benefit from work, or government $ for schooling, or affirmative action (all of which have been a tremendous engine of progress for many other African-descended Americans). They are living like rural Africans live today, they are way, way out of their depth in a 21st-Century first world nation, and nobody has any idea what to do about them.

This is the crux. And one of the most politically incorrect thoughts a person can voice today. The USA has a huge remnant population of Africans who have never assimilated after hundreds of years in North America. Their behavior is indistinguishable from their kin in Haiti or the Dark Continent. They are only a subgroup of American blacks but a significant drain on us all.

[Jim Noble]

who have never assimilated after hundreds of years in North America.

I don't think they have had hundreds of years to assimilate.

The clock doesn't start, IMO until 1955 or later.

However, the prognosis for assimilation of the bottom quartile descended from the former enslaved population is poor.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The USA has a huge remnant population of Africans who have never assimilated after hundreds of years in North America.

I don't quite buy that. This kind of thing didn't happen much in Black America before 1965 or so - there was poverty, certainly, but also a strong Christian ethic and very little of this kind of Third World behavior. The actions we are seeing are a direct result of welfare state liberalism and paternalistic Democrat racism. After 40 years of "the soft bigotry of low expectations", people start living down to them.