People don't listen to Glenn "to hear him disparage black America". Ever since I was young - decades and decades ago - I was curious as to why black America was so dysfunctional. I have read everything I can to try to understand what is going on and I think many people feel this way as well. I am willing to listen to anyone who who can explain the pathologies but, I will not accept the excuses for bad behavior when every other ethnicity behaves otherwise. I have developed my theories about the dysfunctions - there's enough blame to go around including poorly crafted gov't policies a la The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc. etc. But I can't help but come around to simple 'personal responsibility' and that blacks have to own some part of this dysfunction themselves as well.
I have long felt in a subdued, suppressed, vague sort of way (only rarely given form by what I said), what listening to learned, outspoken black thinkers like Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, Kmele Foster, John McWhorter, GLENN, and more, have liberated, made crystal clear - that "The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc" have really taken us down a twisted, thorny path. That includes what has followed, to date, to keep the myth of their goodness going, to keep them in place and expand upon them.
People don't listen to Glenn "to hear him disparage black America". Ever since I was young - decades and decades ago - I was curious as to why black America was so dysfunctional. I have read everything I can to try to understand what is going on and I think many people feel this way as well. I am willing to listen to anyone who who can explain the pathologies but, I will not accept the excuses for bad behavior when every other ethnicity behaves otherwise. I have developed my theories about the dysfunctions - there's enough blame to go around including poorly crafted gov't policies a la The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc. etc. But I can't help but come around to simple 'personal responsibility' and that blacks have to own some part of this dysfunction themselves as well.
I have long felt in a subdued, suppressed, vague sort of way (only rarely given form by what I said), what listening to learned, outspoken black thinkers like Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, Kmele Foster, John McWhorter, GLENN, and more, have liberated, made crystal clear - that "The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc" have really taken us down a twisted, thorny path. That includes what has followed, to date, to keep the myth of their goodness going, to keep them in place and expand upon them.