In this clip from a talk at Pepperdine University in 2021, I outline what I think it will take for black Americans to achieve true parity: work. I don’t just mean that young people have to hit the books harder, though that’s part of it. Developing our capacities requires that parents and communities work to nurture their children’s abilities from infancy onward, so that when the time comes for them to meet the challenges of school, work, and life, they’ll be ready and eager for it. This is no small task, and even under optimal conditions change won’t happen overnight. But we can do it. We must do it.
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Exactly right.
The world is hierarchical; reality is hierarchical. It can't be otherwise. From the simplest to the most complex of things, whoever is smarter, tougher, faster, stronger....whoever works harder, has the greater endurance, the most dedication....whoever produces the greater result, the higher achievement... THEY are the ones who will consistently succeed. And in succeeding, they will rise.
They will rise to higher office, more responsible positions, and greater incomes. They will graduate from more prestigious universities, having mastered more demanding courses of study and they will lead while the rest of us follow. And it doesn't matter if we're talking about Cardiac Surgeons, Electricians, Plumbers, Statisticians, Designers, Inventory Managers, Truck Drivers, Quarterbacks, Mountain Climbers, or Assembly Line Workers... there will be a natural and inevitable sorting out by Quality, Effectivity, Efficiency, as measured by the things they have achieved.
At the top of every heap we find the very best because that is the result produced by Competition.
That is why, when we watch the NBA, we can be assured that we are watching the best BBall players in the world. That is why, when we're wheeled into the Operating Room with an ailing heart that what we want to hear is that our Cardiac Surgery Team is World Class.
Let us also note: when we say BEST, we mean best...when we say WORLD CLASS, we mean world class....as measured by an individual's ability to produce against the highest, toughest, most demanding Performance Quality Standards we have...and not as measured by cosmetics, skin color, genital configuration, or shoe size.
We've spent the last half-century pretending reality doesn't matter; pretending that when we want a thing to be true, it must therefore be true. We've passed who-knows-how-many laws....and started who-knows-how-many programs....and spent God Knows how much money trying to convince ourselves that when we tap our ruby slippers together 3 times, we'll be the next Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael Jordan, Glenn Loury (Abracadabra!).
But that's not happening. It can't happen because REALITY always intervenes; and reality tells us: you've gotta be better, tougher, faster, smarter, stronger not by feel-good fiat but by hard work and achievement. There is no other way.
God save us from a world in which our bridge-builders, doctors, and engineers are chosen not by talent, but because they make the DIE numbers look better.
I am an ex-Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) born and bred but now a nationalised Australian. Glen read my comments to the subsribers and I noted he guffawed when reading my comment, I quote: "Rhodesians didn't get everything right". Glenn doesn't know how much he doesn't know. The reason I am a Glenn Show subscriber is because I grew up with black Africans and like most white Rhodesians we had an interest in seeing blacks succeed. Succeed on their own terms and by their own efforts. Make no error this process was well on its way, it was a matter of years before voting parity with whites was achieved and thereafter it would have been unstoppable before blacks were voted into power based on MERIT. Merit is the answer. I watch the Glen Show because I want to understand why African-Americans struggle so much. I can tell you that blacks, Jews and progressives on the Glenn Show don't have a clue about the real state of affairs in Africa.
If they did they would drop the 'African' moniker and be satisfied being called 'American'. They would realise that nobody owes them a living and that a hand-up is far better then a hand-out. They would return to family values and a belief in God. They would disavow black popular culture and become traditional value Americans. To be honest they have no alternative nobody is going to save them but themselves. Finally, they should abandon the corrupt Democrat Party and vote for Donald J. Trump in the 2024 General Election. Trump is not a racist he has a merit mentality.