…and? I’m appalled with the state of Blacks in the United States, too. It’s hard not to be, what with the achievement gap, the pay gap, the incarceration gap, and the total destruction of Black family life outside the too-small Black middle class.
However, the fact that I am appalled does not mean that I must impute the causes of the disaster to genetic makeup. Blacks in the U.S. were destroyed by well-meaning but highly destructive economic and anti-poverty programs which created powerfully bad economic incentives. These incentives, combined with the destructive ideology of sexual liberation in the 1960’s and '70’s, as well as the contemporary advent of “affirmative action” policies, led a huge part of the African-American racial community into an economic hell of familial self-destruction and generationalized welfare. Had my own Irish race happened to have the bad luck to be poor in the 1960’s instead of the Blacks, the same thing would have happened to us.
The tragedy resulted from a potent combination of economics, culture, and ideology (mostly perpetrated by well-meaning white politicians), not race.
) No worries mate. When I say basic…I mean really basic. Like how races aren’t different species…or the existence of evolution. Though that one’s my fault, couldn’t resist diving into that hornet’s nest. I have learned my lesson though.
