Does Education Make Black People Crazy? By Roger Clegg FrontPageMagazine.com | October 20, 2003 The only obstacle to the continuing amelioration of racial relations in the United States is black culture; only blacks can improve black culture; but well-educated blacks, W.E.B. Du Bois’s “talented tenth,” the group that might be expected to lead this improvement, are, unfortunately, crazy. Of course, I exaggerate. There is, for starters, no such thing as “black culture.” African Americans are a heterogeneous group. Most are sober, law-abiding, hard-working, God-fearing. And there are plenty of nonblacks—whites, Latinos, Asians, American Indians—who are strung out, lawbreaking, lazy thugs....