Blunt, but absolutely true. The depth of ignorance and sheer animal stupidity among them is staggering. The minority of black people who have the intelligence and drive to do well flee these hellholes at their first opportunity, and they're offered plenty of those.
"Poverty" is absolutely not the causal effect of the gigantic degree of brutality and crime in these neighborhoods. It is not even a direct cause of neighborhood physical deterioration and slovenliness. This is evident when you consider what I said earlier about Mexican neighborhoods. The same can be said about other Chicago immigrant neighborhoods (Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Irish . . . for some reason Puerto Rican neighborhoods are shitty in terms of upkeep. Gang culture is a major barrier to reform, too.
Thomas Sowell argues pretty persuasively that the problem is due to the lingering effects of Scots-Irish cultural influence on early southern black American communities (I forget if this is before, during, or after slavery).
Blunt, but absolutely true. The depth of ignorance and sheer animal stupidity among them is staggering. The minority of black people who have the intelligence and drive to do well flee these hellholes at their first opportunity, and they're offered plenty of those.
"Poverty" is absolutely not the causal effect of the gigantic degree of brutality and crime in these neighborhoods. It is not even a direct cause of neighborhood physical deterioration and slovenliness. This is evident when you consider what I said earlier about Mexican neighborhoods. The same can be said about other Chicago immigrant neighborhoods (Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Irish . . . for some reason Puerto Rican neighborhoods are shitty in terms of upkeep. Gang culture is a major barrier to reform, too.
Thomas Sowell argues pretty persuasively that the problem is due to the lingering effects of Scots-Irish cultural influence on early southern black American communities (I forget if this is before, during, or after slavery).