Ria_Longhorn
i have pointed out that if blacks reduce their high out-of-wedlock rate, associated ails such as low educational attainment, high crime, and poverty would fall as well, and for this IM2 considers me racist. In fact, any suggestion that blacks play a vital role in their own outcomes, he considers racist.
I know this because my parents were both children of poor, uneducated (but very smart) immigrants, and my dad was a teen when his grandmother, aunt, and cousins were killed by Hitler. Yet under this backdrop of the most horrific bigotry imaginable, my dad hunkered down in his cold-water tenement, as did my my mom in hers, and BOTH studied hard and received tuition-paid college.
And that wasn’t unusual in the Jewish community in New York (and elsewhere). My aunt and uncle did the same, as did my parents‘ friends. All went from poverty to the middle class in 10 years. And believe me, in late 40s New York (and the country as a whole), antisemitism was in high gear. They STILL succeeded.