Interesting article and views. It’s all very rational and explanatory. But your synopsis (at least what is highlighted here) doesn’t even remotely hint at the ongoing “drug war” in America. Comment section is similarly devoid of reality. Poverty. Black “culture”. Violence. “Inner cities”. Crime. Gangster rap. Bad behavior. Etc Etc Etc. As we know it in America, in modern terms (“structural racism”), a lot of this dates back most recently to the beginning of the war on drugs. After civil rights. After Vietnam and the Cold War. It was the new war. But wait- why haven’t other ethnic minorities been affected similarly??! There isnt, and never was, a south central (LA) or south side (Chicago) concentrated with 1,000,000 Asians or Indians or even Hispanics. It has been a self-fulfilling prophecy in America. The current discourse and situation (e.g., BLM vs police) was a set-up from the get go, duh.
I'm an old white male. I must ask: When you look at black culture, is there even one thing that would make a white person want to join it? 70% of blacks are bastards. Have you listened to the words of (c)rap music? Is your life's goal to grow up and be a banger? Do you want to live in a neighborhood and listen to gun fire all night (and day)? If you are successful in school, do you want to be shunned because "You ain't black enough!". Do you want to spend your life on government handouts? Do you want to be admitted to college because you're black, assume astornimical debt and then bomb out? Or, as bad, graduate on a quota then be given a title and a broom at your new woke company?
Every one who wants even one of the above points in your life, raise your hand!
Negroes need to take a long, hard look at the politics they support and realize the futility of one party politics and the self pity, grievance and victimization that accompany it.
Nobody says “let’s import MILLIONS of non-Blacks into EVERY & ONLY Black countries until Blacks become a minority, FORCE assimilate them into EVERY black community to create a “blended humanity”, give them Affirmative Action & free health care and push miscegenation 24/7 via movies/t.v shows & media(only in black countries)”
THEN, when the Blacks object we call them EVILRACISTNAZI!
Of course not.
They only slam WHITES for objecting to their own White Genocide.
This makes so much sense. Why don’t we hear any mainstream would-be candidates speaking this way? We were told this president was a Moderate who would Unify us, but all we see is more separation, anger, racism, and yes a brewing violent backlash. Very sad.
Interesting piece. It’s hard to accept that you’re a complicated man with a complicated past. The cheating is hard to swallow. It seems like you own it. Where does one go to get a fuller picture of that era of your life?
I enjoyed the piece, Glenn. I liked knowing a European publication is getting a saner, more realistic take on such matters than is often the case.
I think the black crime problem (and I live in a BIG CITY, so it is everyone's problem, really) is much more one of culture than poverty. I am struck by how even conservatives who show up in the media (GOPpers, FOXers...) dont stress that, barely mention it, these days, whereas I thought they used to identify family breakdown as a prime cause of crime and overall negative outcomes. Now they bang away at "lousy schools" as the source of the inner city (black) crime problem, as if school choice is the be-all-end-all silver bullet. As such, they get to knock the unions along w public schools (which sometimes deserve it) in the talking points. And the left is hopeless, of course, when it comes to even brushing up against the periphery of self/family/community responsibility. What makes their sin of omission even worse is that they fill up that void largely with sins of commission: things that distract, enable, and intensify the problem.
Im thinking of the untested Eric Adams, who I had hoped (50/50) might reverse our very disturbing rising crime trajectory (Adams being the NYC Dem mayoral primary candidate I voted for as maybe the best of an unimpressive, sorry bunch). I just heard him tell Jake Tapper that Biden has a great grasp on resolving our crime problem w his gun initiatives. (No, not really, Eric... Yes, I get it - the PRESIDENT invited you to DC to FINALLY talk crime... wow!... and yes, you are a Dem and a politician, but no need to use the whole stick of butter!) Then he said that beyond all that, what counts most in our game plan to end crime (in the black community) is giving kids the chance to shine instead of fail due to a lousy education.
And I groaned.
And then I thought, no wait, he's right! It's just that what's right in what he said is the part he didn't say: Yes, it is how kids are educated... wait for it... and that education starts at birth and is provided by the child's caregivers (preferably 2 parents) in the child's home. No one, but no one, dares to say that essential truth in the mainstream public square these days - except as a fleeting observation once in a while. And yes, schools do matter, but the primary education is from the home, and if that were elevated, we would see those "lousy schools" elevated too.
I keep coming back to how we are a maddeningly stupid society in so many ways: an Emperors' New Clothes on endless loop, but missing the story's shining star: the precocious little boy who, at the end, made it all make sense again.
The "agency" argument is to me the most persuasive. Are we the subjects or the objects of our own narratives? It seems impossible that any group (or individual) could see themselves as the objects of their own narratives and thrive.
Well done Glenn!
Interesting article and views. It’s all very rational and explanatory. But your synopsis (at least what is highlighted here) doesn’t even remotely hint at the ongoing “drug war” in America. Comment section is similarly devoid of reality. Poverty. Black “culture”. Violence. “Inner cities”. Crime. Gangster rap. Bad behavior. Etc Etc Etc. As we know it in America, in modern terms (“structural racism”), a lot of this dates back most recently to the beginning of the war on drugs. After civil rights. After Vietnam and the Cold War. It was the new war. But wait- why haven’t other ethnic minorities been affected similarly??! There isnt, and never was, a south central (LA) or south side (Chicago) concentrated with 1,000,000 Asians or Indians or even Hispanics. It has been a self-fulfilling prophecy in America. The current discourse and situation (e.g., BLM vs police) was a set-up from the get go, duh.
I'm an old white male. I must ask: When you look at black culture, is there even one thing that would make a white person want to join it? 70% of blacks are bastards. Have you listened to the words of (c)rap music? Is your life's goal to grow up and be a banger? Do you want to live in a neighborhood and listen to gun fire all night (and day)? If you are successful in school, do you want to be shunned because "You ain't black enough!". Do you want to spend your life on government handouts? Do you want to be admitted to college because you're black, assume astornimical debt and then bomb out? Or, as bad, graduate on a quota then be given a title and a broom at your new woke company?
Every one who wants even one of the above points in your life, raise your hand!
Negroes need to take a long, hard look at the politics they support and realize the futility of one party politics and the self pity, grievance and victimization that accompany it.
Nobody says “let’s import MILLIONS of non-Blacks into EVERY & ONLY Black countries until Blacks become a minority, FORCE assimilate them into EVERY black community to create a “blended humanity”, give them Affirmative Action & free health care and push miscegenation 24/7 via movies/t.v shows & media(only in black countries)”
THEN, when the Blacks object we call them EVILRACISTNAZI!
Of course not.
They only slam WHITES for objecting to their own White Genocide.
Anti-racism is just a code word for anti-White.
This makes so much sense. Why don’t we hear any mainstream would-be candidates speaking this way? We were told this president was a Moderate who would Unify us, but all we see is more separation, anger, racism, and yes a brewing violent backlash. Very sad.
Interesting piece. It’s hard to accept that you’re a complicated man with a complicated past. The cheating is hard to swallow. It seems like you own it. Where does one go to get a fuller picture of that era of your life?
I enjoyed the piece, Glenn. I liked knowing a European publication is getting a saner, more realistic take on such matters than is often the case.
I think the black crime problem (and I live in a BIG CITY, so it is everyone's problem, really) is much more one of culture than poverty. I am struck by how even conservatives who show up in the media (GOPpers, FOXers...) dont stress that, barely mention it, these days, whereas I thought they used to identify family breakdown as a prime cause of crime and overall negative outcomes. Now they bang away at "lousy schools" as the source of the inner city (black) crime problem, as if school choice is the be-all-end-all silver bullet. As such, they get to knock the unions along w public schools (which sometimes deserve it) in the talking points. And the left is hopeless, of course, when it comes to even brushing up against the periphery of self/family/community responsibility. What makes their sin of omission even worse is that they fill up that void largely with sins of commission: things that distract, enable, and intensify the problem.
Im thinking of the untested Eric Adams, who I had hoped (50/50) might reverse our very disturbing rising crime trajectory (Adams being the NYC Dem mayoral primary candidate I voted for as maybe the best of an unimpressive, sorry bunch). I just heard him tell Jake Tapper that Biden has a great grasp on resolving our crime problem w his gun initiatives. (No, not really, Eric... Yes, I get it - the PRESIDENT invited you to DC to FINALLY talk crime... wow!... and yes, you are a Dem and a politician, but no need to use the whole stick of butter!) Then he said that beyond all that, what counts most in our game plan to end crime (in the black community) is giving kids the chance to shine instead of fail due to a lousy education.
And I groaned.
And then I thought, no wait, he's right! It's just that what's right in what he said is the part he didn't say: Yes, it is how kids are educated... wait for it... and that education starts at birth and is provided by the child's caregivers (preferably 2 parents) in the child's home. No one, but no one, dares to say that essential truth in the mainstream public square these days - except as a fleeting observation once in a while. And yes, schools do matter, but the primary education is from the home, and if that were elevated, we would see those "lousy schools" elevated too.
I keep coming back to how we are a maddeningly stupid society in so many ways: an Emperors' New Clothes on endless loop, but missing the story's shining star: the precocious little boy who, at the end, made it all make sense again.
The "agency" argument is to me the most persuasive. Are we the subjects or the objects of our own narratives? It seems impossible that any group (or individual) could see themselves as the objects of their own narratives and thrive.