Hagbard Celine said:
Asian culture is differs from and promotes different values than African American culture. The point is that people living in certain economic or cultural conditions are faced with certain choices (i.e. crime) more than others are.
All of which begs a difficult question: do smart people have bad culture?
If blacks suffer not because they have inherently lower IQs and inherently lesser ability to control their impulses, that is, because they have "bad culture", why does it persist? If a people were smart, wouldn't they recognize, collectively, that their "culture" just isn't cutting the mustard? And change it?
You can't very well discuss "people living in certain economic or cultural conditions" without asking WHY they live in those conditions. Who created them but the very people living in them? If blacks are always making bad choices, why is that? Do a capable people so consistently and persistently make bad choices?
It is said that white mistreatment of blacks is the only possible explanation for black failure. Yet blacks fail everywhere they exist, from Cleveland to Newark to Haiti to Africa. Haiti, to cite one example, has been free of white control for a century.
If it is the case that white mistreatment of blacks will be, for all time, the only explanation, then we really have a problem, don't we? Whites will never be free from guilt and blame, and blacks will never have to take even slight responsibility. But this cannot possibly be. Races, ethnicities, religions and nations have fought, scrapped, oppressed, killed and generally been hostile to each other since time began. But we don't have eternal obligations by one race to another in all the other contexts, nor should we. There has to be a statute of limitations here. I never owned a slave, and my ancestors were Quakers, for God's sake. But I can't go to the University of Michigan because I'm white in 2005. Meanwhile, a black African recently arrived to American shores, whose family may well practice modern slavery back home, gets to go. Is that justice?
It isn't.
The fact of the matter is that racial groups vary widely in their mental abilities, and these variations are a product of inheritance, or DNA, far more than "culture" or politics or any other external factor. Blacks are simply generally less intelligent and more prone to criminal behavior. Whites occupy a middle ground, and Asians are the most intelligent and least prone to violence (lest anyone think that I consider whites better no matter what).
No political program or legal scheme can change this. It just is. The course of wisdom is to account for it and move on. The last thing we need is yet more unfair accusations that whites are responsible for all black (and Hispanic) problems. Unfortunately, the liberal media (and even conservative media) can't be expected to address this honestly any time soon.