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| The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities |
| 2015-05-06 |
| h/t Instapundit ...The "legacy of slavery" argument is not just an excuse for inexcusable behavior in the ghettos. In a larger sense, it is an evasion of responsibility for the disastrous consequences of the prevailing social vision of our times, and the political policies based on that vision, over the past half century. Anyone who is serious about evidence need only compare black communities as they evolved in the first 100 years after slavery with black communities as they evolved in the first 50 years after the explosive growth of the welfare state, beginning in the 1960s. You would be hard-pressed to find as many ghetto riots prior to the 1960s as we have seen just in the past year, much less in the 50 years since a wave of such riots swept across the country in 1965. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 when the discussion makes a turn against them, |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-06 19:37 |
| #6 Common denominator - bad policing. |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus the Lesser8252 2015-05-06 14:04 |
| #5 I postulate that Libs exhibit an interesting quality I call "Cognitive Gerrymandering." Logical processes do not apply and when the discussion makes a turn against them, the subject is quickly reset to something related in only a tertiary sense, usually related to "tolerance" (or lack thereof) of an "aggrieved" population sub-set. Like AlanC sez, "feelings." |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-05-06 13:19 |
| #4 Inconvenient truth, what is Al Gore moving into the "community" ? |
| Posted by: Gruling Lumplump6227 2015-05-06 07:39 |
| #3 One more example of facts and reason versus emotions and "feelings". This is why conservatives always lose these arguments. It is much easier to ignore the former and go with the latter. I cut my teeth in politics reading WFB columns. His erudition was magnificent but guaranteed to turn off anyone that didn't want to work at it. Sowell is not quite that bad but is pushing that same Sisysphean boulder up the hill of "progressive" sludge. That said, ditto to Besoeker and JQC. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-06 07:31 |
| #2 For me the money quote is: You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. Sowell is a national treasure. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-06 07:16 |
| #1 Spot on! Thomas Sowell at his best. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-06 06:30 |