[Tokhtamish]

These were two separate factors creating a "perfect storm".

1. The impact of the counterculture and the sixties.

2. The destruction of the low/semi skilled sector of the American labor force under the impact of deindustrialization.

At the very moment respectable people lost control of the black urban community, respectable values were destroyed in the society at large. The impact of globalization has been devastating upon the non-college educated sector of the American work force. Support/opposition to free trade has tended to fall along class lines. Isn't there obviously a reason for this ?

[Texas_Dawg]

2. The destruction of the low/semi skilled sector of the American labor force under the impact of deindustrialization.

That's weird. Because in the 1960s my roommate's father laid down in a fishing boat one night and escaped out of Communist China into Hong Kong, later making it to America. I don't think you get much more of a low/semi skilled type than he was. Yet he later got an MBA at an Ivy League School. Then again, he became a Christian after making it to America, about the same time the black and white leftist leaders that took over the black communities talked them out of that crazy notion for the most part. Poverty is about the lamest excuse for crime and amorality I've ever heard of.