Asceplias said:
Sounds really familiar. The point people miss is that you don't live in their shoes and deal with the events they go through. Point to any underachieving group of society and you will find that it is a result of discrimination, racism and a massive failure on part of those claiming there is something inherently wrong with that group.
Meathead said:
What is inherently wrong with that is that other groups overcame whatever hurdles they faced and eventually were successful. Jews in this part of the world suffered substantially more discrimination yet prospered. Yours is a question of dogma, not objective thought. You are not to be taken seriously.
Asclepias is in NOT in the "personal Responsibility" camp.
Whites are forcing 2/3 of Black Babies to be born out of wedlock and 1/3 of Young Black men to commit crimes and go into the penal system? They're also 'cheating' them in IQ tests and SATs.
Oh Yeah.
Of course, Chinese, many brought here as virtual slave labor to build the railroads, and Japanese to Harvest Sugar cane in Hawaii are doing very well and are wildly Over-represented in Ivy League admissions despite ie, in the case of the Japanese, being interned and losing everything as late a WWII.
Same in South America.
But The last President of Peru, Fujimori, was of tiny minority Japanese descent, despite his people being brought to South American as indentured workers too.
They/Brainy East Asians, are in good part are the Victims of the Affirmative Action and quotas that let much lesser qualified Blacks in.
Many businesses struggle to hire qualified blacks to get up to their 'quotas'.
The Koreans and Indians worked (and are still working) up and out too in small family businesses that Any group could start/have started with the initiative to.
So blacks are underachieving in this society Despite strong efforts to by the Govt, etc. while other groups are achieving and over-achieving.
And the same is true Internationally on a continental/regional basis. Many areas were victims of white colonialism, but have overcome it and have credible states. Asia, South America, etc.. but Not Africa.
All consistent with... the OP and 100 years of IQ/other testing.
Demography is destiny.
`