[arthurus]

That noted, it is VERY easy to keep even someone with a great deal of potential from achieving: teach an explicit or implicit ideology of not trying, malnutrition, lack of education, actual oppression, etc.

Or raise them to be vareer victims. Didn't anyone actually read the article?

[CitizenUSA]

You’re right. Mr. Sowell was pointing out it wasn’t the poverty so much that these groups believed they were victims and acted accordingly. That’s the other side of the socialism coin. On the one side you have the socialists who redistribute other people’s money (OPM) out of a desire to help. On the other side you have the victim groups who believe they are owed something simply for being born.

Which comes first? I don’t know, but I do know the victim groups really do believe they’re owed something. That’s something we need to consider if we ever get a chance to roll back some of the government programs that are channeling money to the victim groups. Those groups will likely react, violently.

[Sherman Logan]

Didn't anyone actually read the article?

I did. "teach an explicit or implicit ideology of not trying"