Jim
2008-06-17 22:10:14
Whenever I hear people trying to make excuses for the failures of the urban (emphasis on urban, because these issues aren’t typically relevant to any outside urban areas) Afrian-Americans, I have a simple question to which there is never a good answer:
The poorest of the poor people in this country are white people in the hills of Appalachia. If poverty is the actual cause of violence and rampant lawlessness, why is their crime rate near absolute zero and the percentages of unwed parents among the lowest in the country?
Real answer? Because they have character….
