I understand Sowell's theory but it simply doesn't explain the massive crime disparity even after accounting for socio economic class. There's something fundamentally broken about black culture that simply isn't present elsewhere.
If I had to guess it would be the epidemic of fatherlessness and broken families. Even white trash fathers don't walk out anywhere near the same amount as black father's do. And by far the strongest common factor among prisoners, even above race and class, is being raised in a fatherless home.
There's something fundamentally broken about black culture that simply isn't present elsewhere.
Parents don't give children direction so as adults they have no goals or ability to set goals. To disprove the redneck/gangster comparison: A group of rednecks hanging out drinking together will find a project to work on. It's usually something like "John's car is leaking oil" so you pull it into someone's garage and it becomes a thing the guys do for a few weekends. Whoever's car is busted usually ends up buying the case of beer while the project goes on. I say this from experience. The guys are gonna hang out, drink, and find something broke that needs worked on because they were taught to set goals and achieve them.
I like how you immediately recognized it as Sowell's theory. I would not preclude other reasons, and clearly fatherlessness has a huge impact. There may also be other reasons, including ones that I'm not going to address here.
I understand Sowell's theory but it simply doesn't explain the massive crime disparity even after accounting for socio economic class. There's something fundamentally broken about black culture that simply isn't present elsewhere.
If I had to guess it would be the epidemic of fatherlessness and broken families. Even white trash fathers don't walk out anywhere near the same amount as black father's do. And by far the strongest common factor among prisoners, even above race and class, is being raised in a fatherless home.
Parents don't give children direction so as adults they have no goals or ability to set goals. To disprove the redneck/gangster comparison: A group of rednecks hanging out drinking together will find a project to work on. It's usually something like "John's car is leaking oil" so you pull it into someone's garage and it becomes a thing the guys do for a few weekends. Whoever's car is busted usually ends up buying the case of beer while the project goes on. I say this from experience. The guys are gonna hang out, drink, and find something broke that needs worked on because they were taught to set goals and achieve them.
I like how you immediately recognized it as Sowell's theory. I would not preclude other reasons, and clearly fatherlessness has a huge impact. There may also be other reasons, including ones that I'm not going to address here.