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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

K, I’m just gonna step right up and say it. Generally, I do not believe in blaming the parents of kids gone bad, but in this case, I do.

It is safe to blame a lot of black youth’s problems on their mothers. The same mothers who don’t make them get their ass out of bed and go to school. The same mothers who teach the culture of poverty, and perpetuate the lifestyle.

I am not saying all black mothers are to blame, but a lot of them are.

Oh, the fathers? Well, see, they’re not there, because their fathers weren’t there because somewhere in the past, some black mom didn’t say to her son “You wanna act all grown up and have babies? Get a ring on that girl, and get a job, and make a home.” (hint to mothers: sometimes, this speech is best delivered while you are standing on a kitchen chair).

I am also not saying this problem is confined to blacks, but since all the stats apply to blacks, well, that’s my opinion.


61 posted on 08/30/2014 7:26:54 PM PDT by blu
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To: kearnyirish2
Also, whites and blacks who make the EXACT SAME INCOME have wildly different net worths after 30 years. That's because whites buy homes, pay the mortgage, open an IRA and sometimes DO WITHOUT. Blacks tend to be more impulsive. Blacks are the only racial group that (in fairly high percentages) will walk into a car dealership and pays full price for a car.

Other racial groups can come to the United States with the shirts on their backs - and little else - and in 3 generations be OUT of the ghetto... because they make better decisions.

62 posted on 08/30/2014 7:28:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. —Thomas Mann)
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To: FrankR

I repeat the old line..

You want to play lumberjack....you need to handle your end of the saw.

The black “establishment” tells blacks that they don’t have to.


63 posted on 08/30/2014 7:39:33 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students

Yes.

64 posted on 08/30/2014 7:48:00 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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>> Nicholas Kristof

Prince of smug. GFY, a-hole.


65 posted on 08/30/2014 7:50:02 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: GOPJ; kearnyirish2

Three generations? Many do it in one or two.


66 posted on 08/30/2014 8:18:42 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

Assuming the accuracy of those “facts”, why is any of that the fault, or even the concern, of white people? How am I involved in that? Why do I need to hear more about it?


67 posted on 08/30/2014 8:28:48 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: clintonh8r

YOU SHOULD CARE, DARN IT! LOL


68 posted on 08/30/2014 8:29:37 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: cherry
blacks get proportionately a large slice of benefits, of free food, free phones, free camps, free transportation, and free college...

Years ago my black girlfriend went to Temple Univ and every month she received a $250 grant for as long as she agreed not to leave school.
According to her these grants were only available to minority students who were not employed. She also received travel expenses(she lived in NY.)to and from school.

69 posted on 08/30/2014 8:31:51 PM PDT by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Mark17
Their philosophy is:
If it benefits blacks, it's good.
If it benefits blacks AND hurts whites, it's better.
70 posted on 08/30/2014 8:38:03 PM PDT by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: rbg81
"Like: maybe there is some problem holding Blacks back that has nothing to do with racism??"

Are you thinking of low IQ?

71 posted on 08/30/2014 8:45:09 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Blacks kill people at a rate seven times that of non-blacks.

Any discussion of race needs that fact on the table.

72 posted on 08/30/2014 9:02:20 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Anytime some idiot tries to discuss “white privilege”, demand to first discuss “Asian recent immigrant privilege”.


73 posted on 08/30/2014 9:06:36 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only whites that don’t get it have their butts firmly planted in media and government jobs where they’re well isolated from reality.


74 posted on 08/30/2014 9:12:06 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just another “all black problems are whitey’s fault” by another deluded, white lib. Move along.


75 posted on 08/30/2014 9:14:52 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree. Whites don’t get it. White leftists are the biggest problem for blacks - and whites - in this country.


76 posted on 08/30/2014 9:16:31 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Castigar
Why are you so shocked Nicholas? It’s TRUE!

Ah, but it's not true in LiberalWorld -- a mysterious region outside of space and time that co-exists with reality, but only liberals can see.

77 posted on 08/30/2014 9:38:16 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: GeronL

Gibsmedat


78 posted on 08/30/2014 10:06:10 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Darren McCarty

https://archive.org/details/americannegroinc00unit


79 posted on 08/30/2014 10:08:34 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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.”

This is good news. I knew the liberals would wear out that race card. Obama has set race relations back 40 years and whitey just doesn’t care anymore.


80 posted on 08/30/2014 10:47:01 PM PDT by 1035rep
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