Why Los Angeles ‘could be the next Ferguson’

The Los Angeles Daily Breeze ^ | August 16, 2014 | Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News

[Zhang Fei]

It is encouraging in general, but very stressful for anyone managing them. No concept of professional behavior at all, very limited job skills, and lashing out due to inferiority complexes...

Weirdly enough, there's a psychological term that covers people with excessive levels of self-esteem as applied to practical skills - the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

[Jim Noble]

Since the Watts riot and the Kerner Commission, more than $7 trillion unearned dollars have been transferred to African-Americans. This does not include dollars flowing from phony jobs like "Vice President for Community Relations", etc, etc and it also does not include nonproductive Federal employment, in which African-Americans are greatly over-represented compared to their fraction of the working-age population.

And, according to this article, nothing has changed and we are as we were in 1965.

Not much of an argument for more $$ from the children of parents who were not even born at the time of Watts, is it?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hell, my wife was a toddler and I was in Kindergarten at the time of the Watts riots and we ain’t young people.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is that somehow related to the Bell Curve?

[Zhang Fei]

Is that somehow related to the Bell Curve?

Both are related to evolution's invisible hand. Distinct environmental/societal pressures led to different characteristics becoming dominant among the races.

[kearnyirish2]

“My personal experience is that blacks tend to (1) have an exaggerated view of their competence and (2) attribute their inability to advance despite their manifest competence to systemic racism. Surveys indicate that blacks have the highest self-esteem of any ethnic/racial group.”

It is an act to over-compensate; they see people speaking and reading in ways they can’t begin to understand. From what I see, many have no self-esteem at all.

[Tony in Hawaii]

“Hate” = Telling the truth when the truth doesn’t fit the narrative.

[Zhang Fei]

It is an act to over-compensate; they see people speaking and reading in ways they can’t begin to understand. From what I see, many have no self-esteem at all.

Unless they confide their innermost thoughts to you, how can you know that it's a facade? Fraud's counter-intuitive psychoanalysis through Greek mythology has warped thinking about what makes people tick for over a century now. Sometimes Usually, a cigar is just a cigar.

[kearnyirish2]

I’ve worked closely with blacks for more than half my life; there is an absolute inferiority complex that boils over when another black asks anything of them in the capacity in which a white might. They are very testy with each other, seeing any attempt to “boss them around” by another black as that person assuming the role of a white person.

Sad but true.

[Zhang Fei]

I’ve worked closely with blacks for more than half my life; there is an absolute inferiority complex that boils over when another black asks anything of them in the capacity in which a white might. They are very testy with each other, seeing any attempt to “boss them around” by another black as that person assuming the role of a white person. Sad but true.

My experience is with white collar blacks, and with a small number of exceptions, they were Michelle Obamas with less charm, full of themselves and always suggesting that their (barely adequate to the job) talents were under-appreciated. They had the arrogance of Harvard grads without the Harvard pedigree.

[kearnyirish2]

I’ve worked with them in both blue- and white-collar environments (the office work being much longer and more recent), and it is much worse now. In the blue-collar workplace, they were much more on par with whites (for the work involved), and therefore less hostile; in the white-collar world, the talent gap is huge - beginning with command of the English language, and branching out into everything else (mathematics, technology, basic work ethic). Any that put on airs would quickly see how much they lagged in meetings where they only understood two out of every three words.