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 In his article "Leftist Ideas That Keep Black People Down," Walter Williams writes - "For several decades, a few black scholars have been suggesting that the vision held by many black Americans is entirely wrong. Shelby Steele, a scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said: 'Instead of admitting that racism has declined, we [blacks] argue all the harder that it is still alive and more insidious than ever. We hold race up to shield us from what we do not want to see in ourselves.' "John McWhorter, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, lamented that 'victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism underlie the general black community's response to all race-related issues,' adding that “these three thought patterns impede black advancement much more than racism; and dysfunctional inner cities, corporate glass ceilings, and black educational underachievement will persist until such thinking disappears.'" The greatest factor keeping Afro-Americans down, he explains, is the destruction of the family brought on by President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" in the 1960s that began paying women to have babies out of wedlock. This in turn deprived many Afro-American men of their role as husband, head of household and breadwinner, so instead of being domesticated, they became irresponsible and even violent. Thus we have the huge surge in "black-on-black" crime since the 1960s. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |