[Right Wing Assault]

I suggest these folks go look at the black students at Shaker Heights High in affluent Shaker Hts., Ohio. The parents of these kids made it. A number of them are doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other professionals. Their kids, however, have reverted to ghetto kids. How did this happen? They took up the inferior black entertainment culture of failure. Here's an article about a study by John Ogbu of this school.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8069

It is long, but hang in there. What the kids themselves say it is not someone else's fault but that learning is too much work and it is not cool. Can you imagine being the parents? But I imagine the parents are somehow passing on to the kids that what they are doing is OK. They are accepting for their kids the same bad parts of the culture that they pulled themselves out of.

Let's face it. To succeed in this country, you have to accept that part of white culture that teaches people how to succeed and you have to shun that part of black culture that teaches people how to fail.

[7thson]

What is ironic is, according to Sowell, this black culture of failure was adopted from whites.