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When Whites Just Don’t Get It: After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less (Groan)
The New York Times ^ | August 30, 2014 | Nicholas Kristof

Posted on 08/30/2014 5:29:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

MANY white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves.

Bill O’Reilly of Fox News reflected that weariness, saying: “All you hear is grievance, grievance, grievance, money, money, money.”

Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.

Yes, you read that right!

So let me push back at what I see as smug white delusion. Here are a few reasons race relations deserve more attention, not less:

• The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.)

• The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967.

• A black boy born today in the United States has a life expectancy five years shorter than that of a white boy.

• Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students. They are three times as likely to be suspended and expelled, setting them up for educational failure....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blackkk; blacks; crime; ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; racism; trayvons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Race needs more attention? Good! It’s about NYT listens to my complaints about black culture.


41 posted on 08/30/2014 6:16:52 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Race needs more attention? Good! It’s about NYT listens to my complaints about black culture.


42 posted on 08/30/2014 6:17:22 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314,"

How does a person who makes $6314 a year buy a $40,000 car and put 30" tires and rims that cost $6000 on it ?

43 posted on 08/30/2014 6:17:24 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

[scratches head]


44 posted on 08/30/2014 6:18:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Born to Conserve

It’s not “hundreds of billions” it is trillions. Many, many trillions of dollars. No other country in the history of the world has done nearly as much to right a wrong, but it’s never enough.


45 posted on 08/30/2014 6:20:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blacks don’t get it. We’ve had 50 years of transfer payments,set asides and “understanding” of unacceptable behavior. Whites will give you equal opportunity and respect. But you must do your part and act responsibly,pull your own weight, and quit using racism as a crutch when everything doesn’t go your way. Do that and then we will begin to bridge the gap between us.


46 posted on 08/30/2014 6:25:54 PM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.)

Hmmm, author conveniently neglected to mention that the wealth gap by race is WORSE IN SOUTH AFRICA SINCE APARTHEID too. Conclusion: Modern technology has permitted those with ambition and intelligence to get ahead; blacks have failed to meet the challenge, and whatever the reason(s) it's not whiteys fault.

• A black boy born today in the United States has a life expectancy five years shorter than that of a white boy.

Life expectancy at birth? Many potential contributing factors; a little investigative reporting could have narrowed it down.

• Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students. They are three times as likely to be suspended and expelled, setting them up for educational failure.

How is this whitey's fault?

• Because of the catastrophic experiment in mass incarceration, black men in their 20s without a high school diploma are more likely to be incarcerated today than employed, according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Nearly 70 percent of middle-aged black men who never graduated from high school have been imprisoned.

The natural result of black culture not valuing education and pushing the thug life. No blame for whitey here either, hmmm...

47 posted on 08/30/2014 6:26:44 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: kearnyirish2

Most are not in schools with blacks.

Perhaps in NYC there is some overlap.


48 posted on 08/30/2014 6:27:48 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
• The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household

Consider that poor people receive "services" equivalent to $20,000/year from the government.

Now somebody calculate the present value of an annuity that pays out $20,000/year for life.

50 posted on 08/30/2014 6:33:13 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The socialist liberals doing all they can do to keep these poor people on the government plantation. And the useful idiots lap it up.


51 posted on 08/30/2014 6:35:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Extermination of all of the stupid white communists like the one who wrote this garbage would do wonders for the American black


52 posted on 08/30/2014 6:36:21 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools. There, fixed it.


53 posted on 08/30/2014 6:37:37 PM PDT by Texas Patriot61 (Gun control is being able to hit your target.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

A case can be made that they were better off at that time when it came to family structure. They went through a period of time after the civil war where getting the family together seemed to mean something. Then when a political party call the Dimocrats started rewarding people for NOT having a family structure, it all went to hell.


54 posted on 08/30/2014 6:56:27 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Also an industriousness, peaceableness, and self-discipline gap.


55 posted on 08/30/2014 6:58:25 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: GeronL
I think these people believe they have a right to rob and assault and kill people or something

You may be correct on that. I will say this, however, I have had some blacks tell me to my face, they did not care if the country gets destroyed, as long as white people get hurt by it. How do you deal with that kind of mentality?

56 posted on 08/30/2014 6:58:53 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Blacks cant see the truth because they are blinded by their own brand of racism, not based on any feeling of superiority, but based entirely on the false notion that all their failings are the fault of others and their hatred of all other races based on their envy of them.
57 posted on 08/30/2014 7:09:01 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: ozzymandus
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58 posted on 08/30/2014 7:14:33 PM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No matter how much horrible stuff goes on in the world, the still whine on and on about yesterday’s crap.

They are going to be so surprised when ISIS gets around to beheading them.. But at least they’ll be spared global warming..


59 posted on 08/30/2014 7:14:58 PM PDT by Happy_Regicide
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
smug white delusion

So says the smug, white-guilt-ridden Nicholas Kristoff.

60 posted on 08/30/2014 7:26:47 PM PDT by windsorknot
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