Ref < Immigrants success vs Negro lack of progress >
Tim, whatever you are saying is factually correct.
However as pointed out by others, any immigrant is highly driven even to have uprooted himself, and transplanted himself to America. Secondly apart from refugees and illegals, US has selectively picked immigrants who were highly educated. So again the first generation immigrants tend to be highly driven and successful, and those values are easily passed on to the next generation.
However the Negro population has a major problem. The family structure and values were destroyed during the days of institutional slavery. These still have not come back completely despite the 150 years of emancipation.
The civil rights legislation allowed the blacks into the higher educational system only a generation ago. The black middle class, which was created has benefited from this, is also a problem. The black middle class essentially migrated out of the black ghetto into white suburbia. So what is left in the ghetto ? The drug dealers, the pimps and prostitutes. These are the role models for the black youth. They turn on the TV, and the blacks they see on TV, are sports stars or entertainers. So the young black in the ghetto sees no sucessful black middle class professional as a role model. So the young black wants to be a sports star, or a drug pusher. So why should they aspire to better grades, which is difficult anyway given the poor schools ? The offspring of the unwed mothers have no family structure to tell them otherwise.
The black leadership is also guilty of inaction on this issue. I would like Jesse Jackson to go around galvanizing the black youth into aspiring into the middle class role models. Long term this is a better strategy, since Affirmative Action should only be a short term action.
This is a touchy issue for everyone, and it should be given a rest. |
