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  • Heather Mac Donald: Orlando Vacation from Reality - What Patterson got wrong.

    10/01/2007 10:26:05 AM PDT · by neverdem · 10 replies · 141+ views
    National Review Online ^ | October 01, 2007 | Heather Mac Donald
    October 01, 2007, 6:45 a.m. Orlando Vacation from RealityWhat Patterson got wrong. By Heather Mac Donald The high incarceration rate of black males is not “solely the result of white racism,” wrote Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson in the New York Times on Sunday. Patterson’s startling admission was occasioned by the media-saturated protests two weeks ago in Jena., Louisiana, over attempted murder charges lodged against five black students who had beaten a white student unconscious. This unusual outbreak of frankness on the pages of the New York Times might seem to signal a breakthrough in the otherwise nonexistent public debate...
  • A Poverty of the Mind

    03/25/2006 7:42:00 PM PST · by mathprof · 12 replies · 1,677+ views
    nyt ^ | 3/26/06 | ORLANDO PATTERSON
    SEVERAL recent studies have garnered wide attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American mainstream. But they also highlighted another crisis: the failure of social scientists to adequately explain the problem, and their inability to come up with any effective strategy to deal with it.[snip] Nor have studies explained why, if someone cannot get a job, he turns to crime and drug abuse. One does not imply the other. Joblessness is rampant in Latin America and India, but the mass of the populations does not turn to crime. And why do so many young...