Parentism

We see the claim made continually, implicitly and explicitly, that the failure to thrive of the majority of blacks in this country must relate to factors external to their own choices.  Specifically, “racism” is blamed, which in turn amounts to the claim that white people to this very day have the absolute power to make or break all blacks in this country by our acceptance or rejection. If we accept them en masse, the argument goes, they will thrive, and the fact that they haven’t means we must not have accepted them sufficiently, that somehow this pernicious bugaboo “racism” must still be with us, even if we cannot find examples of it which would even remotely compare with, say, the racism of a Woodrow Wilson or FDR.

This is bullshit. If I were to take an Ideal Type of the typical black kid, I would find he or she was raised by a single mother who existed in large part on public assistance, who only got a high school education, if that, and whose father was largely if not entirely absent during the entirety of their childhood.  I would find that they were exposed often on the street to danger and violence, and that fear was their constant companion throughout their youth and adolescence.  I would find that they listen to loud, angry, violent music which extols the virtues of power and the ability to command sex. I would find that they more educated they seem or seek to become, the more contempt they feel directed at them by people barely able to speak the English language.

I would find, in short, a system virtually scientifically calculated to breed failure.  This is not racism.  Racism is what people outside the system think.  No, this is social incompetence, ineptitude.  This is a system whose failings are obvious to anyone with eyes to see, and which needs to be labeled such.

Until running away from your children is held in contempt–or failing to take precautions not to get pregnant, either through birth control or abstinence–blacks will suffer.

Until education is held in high esteem, blacks will suffer.

Until they get away from that infernal music, whose frequencies and content corrupt both the minds and bodies of those listening to it, blacks will suffer.

Would Einstein have listened to hip-hop while contemplating the mysteries of the universe?  How could he?   How is any higher thought possible when one is confined in the bass and base frequencies?  Look at this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16201210 

What bass sounds do is increase a sense of power and aggression, while diminishing the capacity for abstract reasoning.  To state the obvious, you need abstract reasoning in this society to get ahead.

To return to the point of this post, what I would assert based on data is that black kids who grow up in two parent households do as well as white kids, on balance.  Certainly, starting in the ghetto is not ideal, but the only people who stay there are those without a plan to get out.

Likewise, white kids raised in single parent homes fare as poorly as black kids do, on balance.  They are at higher risk for everything.

Being raised in a single parent home is inferior to being raised in a two parent home.  Thus, if I am to be accused of any -ism, let it be Parent-ism.  Race is an excuse, not an important factor.  Only those who want it to be make it so.  If a black kid isn’t getting the job, it’s because he comes slouching in with baggy pants unable to speak intelligible English.  The person who does not hire is likely making the right decision, because that kid was only going to do half the work that the black kid who came in dressed nicely using proper English does.

Is there any hope that common sense and common decency will ever return?  I wonder.  Nobody is being helped by the relentless race baiting, certainly not blacks.  They are hurt by it, because it confuses them as to the nature of their duty, which is to take care of themselves, and their families.