Pinging folks from the original McWhorter thread.
Thanks for the ping.
Interesting read. I wonder what the final results of this debate will be. I suspect a liberal victory in the short term, a conservative victory in the long term. The only way for the blacks to raise themselves up is to teach their children to help themselves. And there's enough of them waking up to realize that, along with a few good conservative values people who've been there all along. Furthermore, the cultural attachment to religion (at least in the older individuals) I believe will ultimately serve the entire community very well.
I predict that the crisis of the family will deepen first within the black community, then begin to gradually improve over a period of two or three decades once the problem reaches critical mass.