Chapter 1: Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? With Glenn Loury

Chapter one: Glenn Loury on Race in America
When it comes to racial issues in America, many are quick to blame racism and the legacy of slavery. Glenn Loury contends that socially mediated behavioral issues lie at the root of today’s racial inequality problem.
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Additional resources:
Watch “Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America,” on Uncommon Knowledge. Available here: www.hoover.org....
Watch “Glenn Loury Interview: Race Relations in America Today,” on Independent Truths via Independent Institute. Available here: www.independen....
Read “Discrimination and Disparities,” by Thomas Sowell. Available here: www.hoover.org....
Watch “Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities,” on Uncommon Knowledge. Available here: www.hoover.org....
Read “Affirmative Action’s Unconvincing Defenders,” by Richard Epstein. Available here: www.hoover.org....
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[@margotbw4660]

Yes .. we HAVE come a long way and need to keep going and not ruin the hard-won gains we have attained. We betray our younger generations wuth this poison.

[@joejohnson2478]

Brilliantly said! Bravo!!

[@user-bt8vn3dj6o]

A very wise man.

[@skipfluck4299]

Ease your white guilt

[@billnorris8457]

I am not surprised but still in awe of how a brilliant and intellectually honest (far right-tail IQ academic) can use language with such thoughtful precision.

[@joycarter757]

Having been raised to the tune of '... but names can never hurt you', and learned that I just needed to 'work twice as hard to', that was just life! I find the 'popular' notions a kind of culture shock. But I'll continue working to influence those I can to healthier ways of thinking. Thanks for your very articulate help in this regard

[@dale9724]

Up here in highly woke Canada the lawyers are making a mint from CSJ “micro aggressions”, etc. Nobody seems to talk much about lawyers with their snouts in the CSJ trough.

[@blastoff2022]

Run for president Mr. Loury, please and thank you.

[@daveg5857]

100% agree.

[@NM-qo6cd]

Got my rejection email for the HISPBC a few weeks ago. Disappointed but KZbin videos are the second best thing I suppose.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Black economists fail to talk about planned obsolescence and do not advocate mandatory accounting/finance in the schools. Just like the White economists. Sounds egalitarian to me. What is the annual depreciation of automobiles owned by American consumers?

[@joycarter757]

Good word doctor

[@Origen17]

Because you keep believing that it does. Just do life.

[@realtalk7547]

What is the American dream? Is it to attain the same status as my neighbor, or the man down the street? Is it to have that chicken in the pot with 10 more in the fridge? To own land? Or is it to dream and fulfill my own dreams which change with every commercial? If we have food, raiment and in this day and age a shelter from the elements, Godliness with contentment should be our first dream. Comparing ourselves with ourselves only brings jealousy and envy which robs us of joy. We become a tool of the politicians and activists whose dream it is to gain power. Husbands work hard, love hard and stick around to lead your children into these mindsets.

[@alpheausmarcus152]

It appears that the conflict he is having is justifying the root causes of why there are persistent issues of crime within Black Communities. If it sounds as if he is dismissing the way the educational system within Black Communities purposely deprives equal education. The conditioning of uneducated blacks is always a calculated factor attributed to the issues. He hasn't addressed this, nor is he implying that these problems are going on. An educated black man who became a scholar who denies these issues by substituting patriotism is no better than those who he is blaming for the issues.

[@jacksonhansell3796]

Exactly. There are huge socioeconomic inequalities that he's completely ignoring. I've seen way too many eugenicists and borderline white nationalists online recently, and they love to latch onto black thinkers and conservatives who ignore the reality of what's happening. Race is a social construct and isn't even definable based on biological factors, so there is clearly injustice and inequality in society rather than created by race.

[@psychicspy]

Perhaps there is an innate inequality? I am, for example ADHD. That very fact is enough to keep me from ever becoming a professor.

[@jacksonhansell3796]

there is no innate inequality between races. That's an idea supported by eugenics, which is a pseudoscience based on literally zero credible evidence.

[@sirkle1]

Here, here!