[King Prout]

the problems we are having as a national people shall continue to prove intractible so long as:

1. for various reasons, people are not allowed to (carefully, specifically) note that there are indeed empirically verifiable problems, and...

2. the discussion is dominated by racism (old fashioned, plus reverse-racism, plus "the soft bigotry of low expectations"), tired old excuses for extortion, doggerel-spouting mo-tards, race-baiting politics, and PC social theory.

These problems are matters of culture, not genetics.
These problems are matters of culture, not material wealth or poverty.
These problems are a matter of culture, not history.

[Question_Assumptions]

Yes, the problems are culture. But people also need to be able to talk about the often-rational reasons why whites are wary of blacks and blacks are wary of whites. In many ways, whites and blacks are actually feeding each other's suspicions and racism and that's gotta stop.

[cyborg]

I agree with you.