Thanks, Roscoe, for the very interesting and well-reserached article. And thanks, Glenn, for sharing the stage with Roscoe. I share the bottom line that family structure, the "success" strategy," a focus on education, etc., are fundamentally important for all Americans. But those who only see the world in terms of white oppression will simply look at the statistics and say, "That's right. And why are the family structures in the black community so out of whack with what seems to succeed? White supremacy, of course." Asian American success will be dismissed as irrelevant because, the argument will go, white Americans don't feel threatened by them, whether because of historical reasons, because white Americans can't focus on anything beyond anti-black racism, or because there just aren't (yet) enough asian Americans to feel trhreatening. While I think then woke answer is essentially circular, it does raise the critical questions of why? Why did black family structure fracture so much in the last 50 years? Why have most but not all whites and even more asian Americans managed (so far) to avoid those problems? What have the many black Americans who have managed to follow the success formula done right and why were they able to do so? How can their success be replicated (channeling Robert Woodson here, I know)?
Thanks, Roscoe, for the very interesting and well-reserached article. And thanks, Glenn, for sharing the stage with Roscoe. I share the bottom line that family structure, the "success" strategy," a focus on education, etc., are fundamentally important for all Americans. But those who only see the world in terms of white oppression will simply look at the statistics and say, "That's right. And why are the family structures in the black community so out of whack with what seems to succeed? White supremacy, of course." Asian American success will be dismissed as irrelevant because, the argument will go, white Americans don't feel threatened by them, whether because of historical reasons, because white Americans can't focus on anything beyond anti-black racism, or because there just aren't (yet) enough asian Americans to feel trhreatening. While I think then woke answer is essentially circular, it does raise the critical questions of why? Why did black family structure fracture so much in the last 50 years? Why have most but not all whites and even more asian Americans managed (so far) to avoid those problems? What have the many black Americans who have managed to follow the success formula done right and why were they able to do so? How can their success be replicated (channeling Robert Woodson here, I know)?