[Vigilanteman]

A Japanese fellow I knew who managed an operation in California to repackage stuff for export to Japan told me exactly the same thing. In his words, whites could almost keep up with the Asians. Hispanics lagged considerably behind the whites and blacks lagged considerably behind the Hispanics. This plant was near the port of Oakland.

That's not my experience here at the plant where I work. Our black employees are as good as anyone else. But we're getting the cream of the crop because ours have either (a)taken themselves out of the inner city completely or (b)are commuting a long distance therefrom.

IOW, they've rejected typical inner city values.

[COBOL2Java]

IOW, they've rejected typical inner city values.

People make a serious mistake when they attribute it to race. It's not racial, it's cultural.