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Originally Posted by beyelzu
blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime, and I am perfectly willing to accept that it is almost certianly because of economic reasons.
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It's certainly true that blacks earn much less, on average, than do whites. I think it's fair to point out that some of this disparity is due to poor attitudes within the
black community, sadly. Bill Cosby got a lot of grief for pointing this out, but he had a legitimate point.
I've had more than one African-American student complain to me that their peers criticize them for "acting white" if they spend too much time studying.
The question is: Why the prevalence of this negative attitude toward academic achievement (which is doubtless partially responsible for the economic disparity)? I suspect a lot of blacks feel the system's set up against them anyway and they're doomed to fail regardless, so there's no point in fighting it. A self-defeating attitude if there ever was one, sadly.