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To: koan who wrote (259905)	9/3/2014 10:40:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540888

Any sociologist in the world would tell you that all of the things you outline below are direct outgrowths of the 400 years of slavery, etc. Their culture was totally destroyed, they had no help with education, just the opposite and how does one build self esteem as a slave or a victim of segregation and pervasive harsh racism. Lord, this one wouldn't. The connection between slavery in generations, decades, centuries past and behaviors today is a complicated affair. Would have to be demonstrated. And that demonstration would not be easy. I would rather connect it to the white culture than the black culture. It's the persistence of fairly prominent racially demeaning stereotypes in some portions of white American culture; joined with the subtle persistence of Nick Kristoff's point in his recent NYTimes op ed piece of the degree to which racist stereotypes get in all our heads.