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To: longnshort who wrote (251182)	9/13/2005 4:08:38 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1574135

The Sunday Times - World September 11, 2005 Focus: White do-gooders did for black America Black poverty is the result of 30 years of misguided welfare rather than racism, says John McWhorter As it quickly became clear that there was a certain demographic skew among the people stranded in New Orleans, journalists began intoning that Hurricane Katrina had stripped bare the continuing racial inequity in America. The guy is wrong. Racism holds people back and can prompt the development of a large underclass. Tell me, why do Asians who have on average achieved a higher level of education than whites in the US make less money than whites on average? When all else is equal, why do taller, better looking, whiter people make more money for the same job than others who are not taller, better looking and whiter? Both observations are well known and true. In other words, to suggest that racism has nothing to do with the current predicament of blacks in this country and to further suggest that welfare has kept them poor is about the most ridiculous storyline I've heard in a while. Naturally, he concludes that's its really the left that's at fault for the blacks' current problems. Of course, all the decades of imposed racism by the white elitest class had nothing to do with it. I might add this is not a new refrain.........it has been popular among the right for years now. It relieves them of feeling any guilt for the impact their bias might have had on blacks since the civil war. "Only in 1996 was welfare limited to five years and focused on training for work. But by then generations of poor blacks had grown up in neighbourhoods where there was no requirement that fathers support their children. Few grew up watching their primary parent work for a living. Most people paid nominal subsidies as rent and were thus less inclined to treat their living spaces well." This is laughable.......this is the same argument I heard in the early 1980s when he's claiming that things were not that bad yet. This is not worth the time to dispute. Its too bad the Times of London has to join the fray.......the Brits have their own racial problems. As it turns out, Mr.McWhorter is an American conservative who writes a lot about blacks and contributes to the National Review. Here is another article on racism in America that appeared in the NRO: Racism!’ They Charged When don’t they? manhattan-institute.org

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