Simple Observation

Any individual or group of individuals that consistently works harder and smarter than some other individual or group of individuals, will be more successful.

It is not difficult to see, talking for a minute or two with the average ghetto dweller, why they live in the ghetto. Nor is it hard to see why, despite the trillions of dollars we have spent as a nation alleviating their condition, they continue to pollute their own streets, kill one another, and raise generation after generation of stupid kids.

This sort of observation is obvious. The harder question is what to do about it.

It is tempting to think it is the job of the poor to help themselves, and that their failure to do so means they are right where they belong, in the circumstances they deserve. This may sound harsh, but take one example: high school graduation rates. When black people were enslaved in this country, they hungered for the education that slave owners denied them. Now, when it is as simple as going to a school someone else is paying for, listening, and doing the work, they find themselves wandering the streets, literally unable to take a handout if it requires effort and dedication.

In my view, that has nothing–or so little that it can be ignored as a consideration–to do with race. It has everything to do with CULTURE. If you compare the natural resources of, say, Nigeria, with those of Singapore, Nigeria is vastly superior (at least I assume, since Singapore has NO natural resources). Yet, if you compare their economies, Singapore is several orders of magnitude more successful. This means one must compare the PEOPLE. That is where the difference is.

It is strange how the blindingly self evident is so often beyond the reach of ordinary conversation, lest one be labeled a “labeller”.