RE: #47/SP_Immortal: “[...] Slavery has little or nothing to do with black poverty. [...]”
Immortal, I’d rectify this as follows: current poverty in US among blacks has little or nothing to do with the slavery system of 1850-s -it’s the culture, stupid.
And since here, a common observation revived: a few days ago, walking through a university library (a good California school), I couldn’t help notice that black students were unruly and inadequately acting (cells, etc,) while Asians and other types were quite absorbed in study.
Also, for Chapin (simplified, yet true) – all human conflicts can be reduced to “culture wars”, in which either foreign wars or inside strife are manifestations of cultural (i.e. economical) grinding where one group takes off and another lags (the advancing group’s progress owing this to its cultural superiority), and violence is the only manner to re-adjust the situation.
To Boris, preemptive strike: Remark, comrade, that this take on this issue completely precludes the idea of biological/racial/ ethnical differences between groups. Still, you can also check with reverend Wright about his views about the different learning abilities of races.
