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When certain other blogs started tossing around the CENSORED word, I objected.
I keep saying it's culture, not genetics which is the problem.
Handwaving Freakoutery gave a succinct way of saying what I've been trying to say:
Here’s an unfortunate truth you need to process. In modern urban black culture, black boys fight. They resolve their grievances in an honor culture because they can’t trust the authority to resolve them, and honor cultures resolve differences with duels. Always have.
and how did they come to distrust authority?
You know what systemic racism is, don’t you? It’s when a law or policy that has no apparent racist intent, when applied in combination with other societal factors, produces a disproportionately bad result to a particular race.
He cites a couple of examples.
What that means is we have to regain the trust of this subculture at the same time as forcing them to abandon it and join our culture.
Bizarrely enough the way that used to be done was with something that strongly resembles racism.
It was, "If you're going to act that way, you don't get to leave your little section of town. We catch you outside that little section acting that way, bad things happen to you."
Anyone who left that section of town and behaved in a civilized manner as a member of the wider culture, got to remain outside and take advantage of the greater opportunities afforded by being a member of that culture.
Classic carrot and stick approach.
The Irish passed through this crucible. Twice!
Italians did it. I remember talking to my grandfather about it.
Catholics (!) did it.
Asians did it, and did it differently from Europeans.
Blacks were well on their way of doing it when the real racists decided the make the ghetto inescapable.
Red-line laws. Family breaking financial incentives.
Those make sure the people who can act civilized are forced to live among the barbarians, and eventually join barbarian culture to merely survive.
Lather, rinse, repeat for a couple of generations and... Here we are!
Fixing it now will be grueling and brutal.
In the end, we get solid citizens and we do serious hurt to actual racists.
Hurting racists is good.
Saw a Thomas Sowell interview where he equates urban African-American culture with its origins in... Red Neck culture. Look at RNc from the 1800's, both pre and post ACW and, dang it, he ain't wrong there. Not much different between feuding hill folk and rival street gangs. And both groups tend to be virulently racist/bigoted.
ReplyDeleteI saw that too. That was imported here from England and Scotland's poor-folk.
DeleteI don't know if you've ever read Theodore Dalrymple, but in his book Life at the Bottom, he described behavior very much like what you describe among dole-class British people. These are the ones who, among other things, have made British football fans very unwelcome in a lot of Europe.
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