Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most low-income students attend.
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[@theemurf]

"A black man in the home is more important than a black man in the Whitehouse." - Jason Riley

[@marycoffman5872]

Rowan Murphy AMEN!!

[@marycoffman5872]

Rowan Murphy- AMEN!!

[@shewillloveGod]

What difference does it make what color of skin.

[@margaretdouglass6772]

spot light when a black man performs his job the way it’s intended he gets treated like any other man!

[@cordwainerbird5550]

@@margaretdouglass6772 You are WRONG! The presence of actual race discrimination abuses changes everything!

[@whayes8084]

I agree with everything he said. A black man that truly cares for his community. The ones calling him an "Uncle Tom" , are the ones who typically are destroying our communities.

[@cordwainerbird5550]

I'm Black! I'm sorry, but Riley's one sided comments brand him as a Black sellout and an "Uncle Tom! We all know there are many underclass Blacks who sabotage themselves with bad life decisions. But Riley totally excludes LEGITIMATE race grievances from the picture! Plenty of Blacks have duly applied hard work, earnest study and genuine merit to no.avail due to their race and color! Riley refuses to acknowledge this! That's why he gets called "Uncle Tom"!

[@christinefelice4020]

@@cordwainerbird5550 Oh bullshit. Quit making excuses and flashing your victimhood mentality, it's fucking gross. If that steaming pile of horseshit were true, why are there so many African and Caribbean black folks KILLING IT in academia? Why are there so many of African and Caribbean descent that are engineers, doctors, people of education and substance? Are they not black skinned? Quit the fucking whining. Get to work fixing your GD community.

[@cordwainerbird5550]

@@christinefelice4020 I'm sorry, but you are just babbling naive ignorance! You really have no idea what you are talking about! Did you even know that white decision makers have often chosen non-white foreigners over better qualified American Black descendents of American slavery? I understand your simple minded ignorance completely! It's as common as dirt! You should ask yourself: How did Colin Powell get promoted over American Blacks in the military who had greater experience and higher rank? Or you might consider: Why did political king makers choose Barack Obama to become the first Black president when there were so many better qualified American Black descendents of slaves? WHY? In each case, trendy foreign ethnic heritage looms as a major factor! This phenomenon happens repeatedly all through American society! Please stop babbling your ignorant nonsense!

[@cordwainerbird5550]

@@christinefelice4020 I think it's important that your exaggerated "victim mentality" delusions! You must learn to deal with actual reality and let the chips fall where they may!

[@christinefelice4020]

@@cordwainerbird5550 EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES. Apply yourself and work hard like African and Caribbean folks, and quit being a crybaby LOSER.

[@desmisc9911]

As a gay man I want liberals to STOP helping me. I have left the LEFT.

[@VelkanAngels]

Same as a female with very long-lasting gender confusion issues. I remember wishing that gender dysphoria would become better known... to PROFESSIONALS. As in, doctors and psychologists, so that maybe a treatment could be found. I'll take back the days when no one had heard the words "gender dysphoria" any time, over the current days of "tolerant allies" making shit up, calling it gender dysphoria and spreading it around as though that's what it is and then telling professionals NOT to try and find a treatment, otherwise they're "transphobic"... It'd be much greater help, if they'd stop supposedly trying to help!

[@AlexK-df5to]

I'm a female and part of LGBT...and I totally agree. The left is destroying everything, including itself.

[@frederickarchibaldchumly-w2163]

It's a snake that is eating its own tail.

[@dalesandry1]

you are not a gay man ...you are a MAN who engages in homosexual activities- no such thing as a gay man

[@TheseusTex]

@@dalesandry1 This is how I view *my* gayness. I am a man (born with xy chromosomes). I have tastes in food, art, and sex. I can't always explain what attracts me. I am neither proud nor ashamed of my tastes. There are many such attributes that make up a complex picture of who I am as a person. No one attribute defines me. I long to be able to think of race with the same nonchalance.

[@noecamarena9]

As a mexixan American I also want liberals to not "help us"

[@SemperFighting]

Thumbs up to you.

[@yolimejia29]

you will always be a slave of the system because you believes there is no system

[@yolimejia29]

all this shit that is going on in america and around the world and you worried about whether to accept a hand-out...work till your 68 years old and then retirement after you miss have your kids lives.

[@erikmunoz55]

I'm with you my friend

[@fivefivevirgo4055]

Well, if that happens then the Republicans would start shipping all the Mexicans out of the country, they would do that if they had it their way.

[@emmanuelking9988]

Jason Riley's book needs to be required reading in school, along with all writings from Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Thomas Sowell. As someone who grew-up poor in the inner city and was taught "victimhood" and identity politics in school, I greatly appreciate hearing Mr. Riley speak truth. It's most definitely not about "systemic racism", it's a culture problem and the Left's promotion of it.

[@evanvarns4785]

Emmanuel King - you can include Walter Williams' work in that list as well. :)

[@emmanuelking9988]

@@evanvarns4785 Yes! Most definitely...and may Mr. Williams RIP 🙏

[@kenmarriott5772]

If hold a person to a lower standard, you my be impeding his ability to learn from mistakes and succeed.

[@TheBigvolt]

My grandfather always said Communism / Fascism takes away your right to fail , and the right to live as you please.

[@abemelechelamibnmalachi6443]

TheBigvolt communism has nothing to do with stupid systematic problems of America's false democracy

[@andreanacalhoun9454]

Communisim is garbage its for the average joe who needs a higher authority wiping his ass for him.

[@abemelechelamibnmalachi6443]

Mitzi Paap The Democrats are not communist and China as well or exploitation would be apart of the system. All now needed is war to America and the death of many Americans that are patriotic

[@serpentines6356]

After reading some of the comments on here about the black community being better off before all this 'help'....I recall a scene in a movie (forgot what movie) that really stayed with me...An older black man (father?) is walking with a young black man (son?), the younger one is saying how it's better after the struggles in the sixties, after desegregation, and the older one asks, 'Is it'? The younger one is surprised by this, and the older man commences to state how before desegregation blacks owned all their own businessess, they had more say over their lives (paraphrasing here)...'We had our own banks, our own stores, our own schools, our own shops, we had each other'...That really stuck with me...Of course the racism was horrible, and we would never want to go back to that cruelty, and wretchedness....But it makes the point about blacks having to depend on themselves and each other, and there was a certain pride, and cohesion in their family life and communities.

[@CraigCastanet]

Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have written and stated these facts.

[@nasimwehbe8410]

Actually they had their own banks and businesses in mass in Tulsa Oklahoma better known as Black Wallstreet. This was before segregation and Jim Crow. It was Democrats and the KKK that burned Black Wallstreet to the ground and soon after Jim Crow laws came into effect. There was no segregation during the time of Black Wallstreet. They just built their own thriving communities that were eventually destroyed by the left.

[@dongf5628]

@@nasimwehbe8410 Tulsa at the time was ironically run by Republicans actually. This is how you know Republicans don’t do their own research

[@everythingyousayiscorrect]

@@nasimwehbe8410 The Democratic Party of back then was the conservative party back then. The democratic party was founded in 1828 by Andrew Jackson and his supporters, who were primarily farmers, laborers, and working-class. (Today’s republicans except the working class is divided between democrats and republicans) The Republicans tried to play me too with that bs. The fact that they would try to mislead someone into believing that they weren’t the racists back then goes to show me that I don’t need to be voting for a party that does nothing but lie and tell half truths, they really want to change history when they should be trying to change their hearts, and work on a better future for their party.

[@Radosevic]

There has never been a greater machine for eliminating poverty than that of the free market.

[@jahreed]

wtf is a free market? ALL MARKET ECONOMIES are so highly regulated and managed as to control their populations and mantain some semblence of status quo and stability. If it weren't for this intrusion into your holy "free" (like how peter pan the fictional character is "free" and also doesn't want to grow up) market the inevitable disillusion through capital intensive, monopolistic, oligarchal plutocracy dominating the "market" through capital leverage for personal enrichment would probably lead to popular revolt and some robespierre type terror or a great depression that puts the brake on things if we're lucky. Tell me again about your free market?

[@TheShaniqua1992]

the greatest expansion in wealth tend to correlate with the most free markets. the notion that since there has never been a 100% free market, that a more liberal market would not lead to greater wealth creation is a logical fallacy. and you have contradicted yourself. You claim that monopolies and oligarchies are created through the free market, yet you also claim there has never been a free market. Hint: monopolies / oligarchies have never been formed in the history of mankind without governmental interference or regulations that effectively stamp out competition.

[@johnwindley1477]

Im glad you said this first the notion that a monopoly can exist without the picking of winners and losers through government intervention is a misunderstanding of applied economics. Additionally, the attempt to use ten dollar words screams ideology as opposed to evidence based discussion.

[@susanhenry6834]

Why is the fed pumping in 60 to 120 billion into the free system? It is corrupted when fed picks winners and losers.

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

The most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" -Ronald Reagan

[@bobadams3019]

These, or something very similar, came from Ronald Reagan. Why not give him credit where credit is due.

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

@@bobadams3019 Good Point. Lemme edit to show where the quote comes from.

[@bradcurtis5324]

at 14 I watched many of my black friends in distress as their fathers were forced from their homes as AFDC became the source of income for the family. It changed the neighborhood for the worse in just a couple years. Hostility toward whites like myself grew dramatically. It was at that time I was introduced to Black racism. We moved.

[@boneheaded9751]

Standing ovation. Black men like him, and others...Walter Williams, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell...should be the voices of the black community. Put in the spotlight , as voices of reason and true progress. Instead you have the Sharptons of the world in the spotlight (with the support of the president no less)...who do nothing but perpetuate the issues...and makes loads of money doing it.

[@quincydavis6289]

+Bone Headed What he is doing is letting The United States of America off the hook for the crimes it committed and allowed to be committed against Blacks in this Nation. Blacks have to do better and take advantage of the opportunities provide to us and the Government most make sure we get a fair chance, because it was the Government that oppressed us. P.S. He also 'TALKS' white. Know the difference of an intelligent speaking Black man and one who is intelligent but is trying to"sound" white. It is all in the pronunciation.

[@boneheaded9751]

Quincy Davis Okay then...give me an example of how this country oppressed or committed crimes against YOU...not your grandparents or great grandparents, but YOU. A fair chance? At what exactly? Or are you trying to ride on the backs of those that were actually oppressed... Edit: FYI, slavery was a business, not a crime, back then...and thousands of years before that. Everyone was doing it, even blacks. There was even white slavery. Not saying it was right...but don't get it twisted.

[@boneheaded9751]

Quincy Davis You said it...bull. You just love being a victim. Can you explain why we have a black president then? And why Carson is leading in the polls?Lol

[@boneheaded9751]

Quincy Davis Exactly..."assimilated". In other words not playing the victim, or pointing fingers, or making excuses for their shortcoming and/or failures in life. Or blaming it on something that did not happen to you in your life time. It's called self reliance. Besides, what culture or heritage do you have? Sounds like you're just angry at the world. Maybe because you're not where you want to be in life...maybe you made the wrong choices...or maybe because you're afraid that if you actually stopped putting up your own road blocks, making excuses, or pointing fingers, that you'd fail in life anyway. Who knows. But I know one thing for sure, that there is not systemic racism or "The Man" out to get black people. Oh, and that you're a racist in the truest sense of the word. Man up and stop pointing fingers and making excuses for your failures and shortcomings. No one cares what the color of your skin is (well most people anyway) it's the content that counts.

[@boneheaded9751]

More facts that should be pointed out that contradict Mr. Davis's bullshit. Despite years of outreach and millions towards getting blacks into higher education, enrollment numbers are at an all time low. At a time when blacks have more opportunity than ever in the history of this country. But yet some still need to make excuses...and it's still not enough. All I'm asking is to look at the real issues, and stop pointing fingers and making excuses. Yet I'm the racist. Makes me wonder what the end game is. Can't help but think it's whitey in chains, being whipped. Sorry...not gonna happen. As far as segregation goes...look at what's going on just this week at several colleges, Liberal Arts Schools of course, out of response to to the retardation that happened at Yale recently. Black students are demanding special African American Centers within these schools...specifically African American. African Americans are from the US...right? Understand? Doesn't get any more segregated than that. LOL You complain and demonize a society you obviously want no part of...even though we bend over backwards...then complain, make excuses, and point fingers because you cannot succeed. And the black men that do succeed, you disparage them for selling out to whitey. LOL Yes...a fucking moron is an apt description.

[@azmike3572]

Riley: "Please stop helping us." Politicians: "We can't stop; we want your votes."

[@cherylnagy126]

😂

[@painlessrisen9787]

Great talk Jason...great to know there are other black men that get it.

[@SupportAndDefend]

Hoping failed policies if retained long enough will eventually succeed - insanity.

[@MrDoobysm]

Jason Riley!! Thomas Sowell!! Walter Williams!!! Ben Carson!! Larry Elder!!! Clarence Thomas!! Following in the molds of men like MLK, Booker T. Washington, and fredrick Douglas! Men not only with important black voices, but evermore importantly......brilliant minds!!! Read and study them all! These men must be celebrated!

[@jahreed]

clarence thomas is a disgrace to the supreme court

[@Papierentaart]

Give this man a medal!

[@Chingus696]

God bless this man! I know this is 3 years old but some groups, BLM comes to mind, need to take this to heart.

[@serpentines6356]

And here I am in 2022, and it's only gotten worse. People pumped big money into the BLM org, into the millions, or more, and it's getting wasted on who knows what. Not surprised one bit. Didn't trust them to begin with. Made me sad that people didn't give more money to things like Project Hood, that have been working hard for years to get kids off of the streets, off drugs, etc.

[@wingedinfinity6715]

I am 48 years old, lived in 5 states, worked MANY different jobs, and lived in low income housing up to upper middle class, and have NEVER encountered a racist white person, nor have I ever seen a black person not get fair treatment at a job. I also went to a four year univ (graduated), and community college....and have never seen blacks not get same treatment. In fact, I have not only seen whites be discriminated against, but I have been discriminated against. I have lived amongst many blacks in Louisiana....birth until 10 years old, and then later for another 11 years. What am I missing ? I just dont get it. Are there racist people ? YES. Is there racism on both sides ? YES. Do white cops discriminate against black people ? YES. Do cops discriminate against white people ? YES. Again, what am I missing ? Here is what Jesus taught us : TO OBEY GOD'S COMMANDMENTS no matter WHO you are. He taught us that God is NOT a respecter of persons. He taught to LOVE EVERYONE, INCLUDING OUR ENEMIES. What if we followed Jesus' teachings ? How about let's get to the ROOT OF THE PROBLEM. The root is that we have major rebellion against God and what God wants. There are evil people in this world who only seek to divide so they can always be on top. Slavery runs rampant all over the world, INCLUDING IN U.S.A. ....AND INCLUDING WHITE PEOPLE IN THE U.S.A. via HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Actually I am not missing anything. RACISM IS USED AS A PSYOP TO DISTRACT PEOPLE FROM THE REAL PROBLEMS SO THE EVIL PEOPLE CAN CONTINUE DOING WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THIS IS ALSO WHY THEY TAX US TO DEATH, SO WE CANNOT SPEND TIME WITH OUR FAMILIES AND KEEP OUR GOVERNMENT IN ORDER, WHICH IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. This is an EXTREMELY HUGE eyer opener regarding this agenda to take us down systematically : 37 year old video explains everything happening today kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJzOp2qJfd2inLs

[@davetoth9767]

I have nothing but respect for Jason Riley. He is absolutely a very wise and quality person that we are fortunate to have among us.

[@CraigCastanet]

Perfection. "EQUAL OUTCOMES DON'T EXIST".

[@susanoneil1]

I watched Jason last night on Bill O'Reilly's show. He is amazing and has a very strong message to share with all of America and we should all listen to what he has to say. He has a brilliant awareness of black issues of the world today. He is educated, smart is deeply concerned about what is really going on with Black America. Listen up, we can all learn something from him.

[@thedaveastator7939]

There are entirely too many comments beginning with "As a [insert race]..." or "He is a good example of a black man because....". You don't need to mention his race when analysing his ideas and you definitely don't need to tell us your race before giving us your opinion. For example: I think modern left-wing consensus surrounding political correctness has allowed for the advancement of victim culture whereby any group occupying a low position in a hierarchy of success in some domain are portrayed as being oppressed by those higher up the hierarchy. compared to: *As a white man* I think modern left-wing consensus surrounding political correctness has allowed for the advancement of victim culture whereby any group occupying a low position in a hierarchy of success in some domain are portrayed as being oppressed by those higher up the hierarchy. Notice how the inclusion of my identity doesn't improve the substance of the opinion? Obviously sometimes your identity will be relevant, but very rarely. I submit that you should only mention your physical characteristics if they are relevant to what you are saying. But hey that's just my opinion as a 6 foot, left-handed smoker.

[@metaking1008]

Chessiah Human beings are just that dumb.

[@blueeyes6550]

Chessiah - good comment.

[@motormusique]

Thank you, that is such an important comment to make in the context of discussion nowadays. I hate when people precede their arguments with a statement of their essential traits, as if to imply that they can speak for everyone who is like them, or if there is agreement within communities on any idea!

[@auntjenifer7774]

motomusiq * THAT'S a form of virtue signaling too !

[@VelkanAngels]

Normally I agree, but in this case, the speech he was giving was ABOUT race. It was a man with a race talking about issues that particularly pertain to people of said race. Of all videos you could've commented this on, this is one of the very few where it doesn't apply.

[@VueiyVisarelli]

I honestly would be disgusted with the Republican party if they pandered to Blacks the way the Democrats do. I *would* like to see more Republican outreach, but instead of handouts or appealing to them "as Blacks," I'd rather see them appeal to us as fellow Americans. Our differences (in appearance) are pretty obvious; instead simply include us without pointing it out (like the Democrats do). Isn't that part of what the Civil Rights movement was about, anyway? Being regarded by the content of our character, and not the color of our skin...? Awesome speech and good Q&A!

[@unclefexxer6441]

What do you mean "include?" I don't know of any republicans who keep blacks out; blacks don't make up more of the republican party because they overwhelmingly identify democrat and hate republicans. Not to mention that black conservatives are viciously attacked as "Uncle Toms" and race traitors by liberals so they usually don't choose to run under the R banner. It's like feminists protesting against women being "underrepresented" in the STEM degree programs when there simply aren't many women choosing to go into them. I don't believe this has anything to do with inclusion or exclusion, this is about choice.

[@VueiyVisarelli]

UncleFexxer Umm...I think you read into that *WAAAY* too much. I did not use the word "include" to imply that they *exclude* us; they don't, as far as my experience has showed. Black Republicans are "included" simply by being a part of the party, just as any other ethnicity is. There was no deeper meaning to that. I am well aware that most Blacks aren't Republicans (or conservatives in the more general sense), and when I first became a Republican (right before voting in my first presidential election, because it fell in line with my already "conservative" beliefs), other Blacks I knew would look at me funny or wonder why I would do such a thing, as if it was simply absurd (no one was mean-spirited enough to call me an Uncle Tom, though). But, yeah, you read a negative assumption into the word "include" that simply wasn't there.

[@unclefexxer6441]

VueiyVisarelli Mea Culpa. I hear that word being bandied about so much by the left that it's becoming another weasel-word for groups that want to blame other people for the consequences of their own choices or inactivity. Activists have gone Full Metal Alinsky in their reduction of plain English into tropes, controlling the discussions by hijacking the language. I understood your appreciation for Riley's message, you made it quite clear. Admittedly I've become so sensitized to the cookie-cutter rhetoric rolling out of MSM, blogs and university campuses that I've developed a hair trigger for words. Didn't mean to sound like I was accusing you of being one of the SJW set. My bad.

[@VueiyVisarelli]

UncleFexxer No problem. Glad we're clear. :)

[@VueiyVisarelli]

fivefivevirgo HAHAHAHA, I needed a good laugh! Thanks! Oh, and also: *wise up*.

[@user-vd2jk7dl3p]

thumbs up when I saw the title

[@angelo7217]

Minneapolis 2020/Covid-19 - please watch this video, show your children!

[@toddavis8603]

What a brilliant man Riley is☆☆

[@TheHeritageFoundation]

Thanks!

[@douglasdupre3461]

As a Croatian Amerixan I also want liberals to not "help us"

[@bearowen5480]

Love you, Jason. Keep speaking and writing your mind as courageously as you have in the past. My black friend, Naval Academy graduate, masters degree graduate in aeronautical engineering, and Vietnam squadron mate, Charlie Bolden, went on to graduate from Naval Test pilot school. He became a space shuttle pilot and retired from the Marine Corps as a major general. He served for the eight years of the Obama Administration as the Administrator of NASA. I once told Charlie at a squadron reunion at the Johnson Spaceflight Center in Houston that he was a victim of affirmative action. He seemed genuinely surprised at that and asked me to explain. I said that I knew very well from flying with him in the A-6 Intruder in Vietnam and elsewhere what a truly gifted pilot and superb Marine leader he was. I told him that along with that, he had superior intellectual and political skills, and that he legitimately deserved the success he had achieved in his Marine Corps and NASA careers. But I also told him that people who didn't know him as I did, discounted those achievements as being the result of the unfairness of affirmative action programs! I'm not sure he believed me, but I could tell from the expression on his face that my words at least were listened to and considered.

[@aimercab4450]

I get that all the time: "Why do you sound white?"

[@siddbastard]

The work to unravel and explain the ridicule of this question, as a black to another black, must be enormous, and very taxing on the soul. You have my sympathy, man.

[@margaretdouglass6772]

siddbastard you don’t have spray Ebonics just cause you’re black! There are many people that are black and don’t sound black. Like there are many people that are Latinos and don’t sound Spanish! My first language is Spanish and I don’t remotely sound Spanish!

[@Doris1888]

Being white I can tell you not all whites talk super educated. I think that is a big misconception.

[@elroco4827]

She didn't mean it as in sounding proper. She meant why he sounds like Peewee Herman

[@Doris1888]

White people sound like Peewee Herman?

[@tarstarkusz]

Very good speaker delivered an excellent speech and gave great answers to the questions posed to him.

[@V21IC]

As a West Indian, my opinion of the differences between Afro-Americans and West Indians are West Indians are more disciplined, more intellectual/intelligent; more adaptive and pride themselves by working hard to accomplish their goals. Where as Afro-Americans tend to see themselves as privileged/entitled; that the government/state ows them; they tend to be rude, less courteous and less tactful; they interpret the 'hardships' in life as 'racism', or some sort of 'discrimination'. Also, they enjoy playing the role of 'victim'. Thus society at large must be sympathetic to them. Anti-Americans see life like a reality show. All black people are descendents of slaves brought from Africa to the Americas, and the Caribbean. However, as West Indians we acknowledge that fact but we don't responsible that aspect of history for our present now. It seems a bit naive to still looking back 400 years ago. We just cannot connect! And we West Indians have a more African culture and language than Afro Americans! West Indians associates 'free' stuff as a 'bribe' and not necessarily a 'help'. Afro Americans have as a life goal to look and live 'rich' though being 'poor. They do not speak & write English properly. West Indians have a more global knowledge of countries and cultures. I guess we have a heritage that's more of British than African.

[@shemwhitehead9517]

Reminds me of the old saying: insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results.

[@dongf5628]

Yes demean the voters a million times. That will get them to your political team

[@E101ification]

I actually don't think these programmes were ever 'well-intentioned'. Maybe it's the cynic in me, but I personally believe the primary reason these programmes were created was precisely to hold black Americans back the way they are today. I think the far-Left has always been just as racist as the far-Right, they've just been much more subtle and sophisticated in how they implement their racism. I'm sure there were, and still are, many good individuals among the far-Left who genuinely believed that by helping put these programmes and policies into effect they were helping black communities, but I think the individuals who devised these 'solutions' knew perfectly well what they were doing, and that it was an insidious and conscious effort to re-enslave black people in the most insidious manner possible - by getting them to enslave themselves.

[@Orcinus1967]

Or maybe it was the people behind the people who were behind the people who came up with the idea. Plenty of factual basis for that out there as well. Do you conspiracy theorists actually ever listen to yourselves?

[@themissinglink2163]

I'm a white Australian and have observed a real issue with this situation. My father ran the mechanical department for a Government Funded Community Project to help Indigineous Australians. The project was very successful and got to the point where it could sustain itself and make a profit without Government funding which led to it getting shut down. I will not put this down to abject racism but more that there is no incentive and is in fact detrimental to people in Beuracracy to have projects leave the Governments control and be independantly successful. It seems Beuracracies primary concern is to protect itself and it's funding which in reality is natural if your success eventuates in you losing your job. Identifying these inherant systematic problems within our institutions is necessary if we are ever going to rectify anything. Overall I think nearly every problem in our society is due to flawed cultural ideoligies which political correctness has censored us from discussing in an attempt for an inept system to cover up it's own failings. It is time to stop deluding ourselves, reflect on our failings and have the difficult conversations or accept our innevitable dissapearance into obscurity.

[@ingevankeirsbilck9601]

That is so tragic on a human level! Do you know what happened to the Aboriginals involved in the project?

[@nickburns904]

I witnessed the same thing he describes in the 7:00 story but among adults. There was one young black man, incredibly hard working, articulate, friendly, and compassionate. He was ridiculed by the other blacks who made up 90% of the workforce in that job description for "talking white" or following his superior's orders (we actually didn't have to order HIM around because he was self-driven). He ignored them, and a few years later tripled his salary by joining our job description (he was a college student and earned it). The others stayed in that other job. It was sad and eye-opening.

[@nachochitiu6953]

Equal outcome is artificial, unnatural and can only achieved through stalinist quotas. Unfair at core. Murderous in the end (see gulags).

[@lavenderlust9856]

Bravo to Jason Riley - this man makes all of us color blind.......

[@quabot]

Can’t wait to read the book!

[@michaelpaliden6660]

? if you take away someones right to fail you must also take away their chance to soar. My ? for Liberals is who are you to take away someones chance to be an eagle and keep them as a pet Gerbil.

[@chuqyv12]

Will someone please explain what Jason has said or written about that's incorrect? as a black person of means and intelligence by the grace of God, it saddens me that fellow black men and women have reduced their thinking ability to lower than that of a 5th grader. Jason is telling the truth and anyone who disagrees with him is indeed the problem.

[@shamoy1000]

I'm convinced that the leftists are not the same or even similar to the liberals. Prager U has a good explanation of that.

[@SitchCorp]

democrats enable liberals, liberals enable leftists. democrats depend on votes from liberals and leftists. To me, they are one in the same. Until democrats disavow the violence and destruction of the left, they will always be complicit in everything the left does.

[@frmichaelbishop6026]

When I was growing up, my mother stressed reading, maybe a little too much. But I love what he said, "Give blacks equal opportunities and then leave them alone." This has been my life and today I hold a BA from Merrimack College and an MDiv from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theology Seminary, both excellent institutions with very few minority students on campus and almost no minorities in the surrounding towns. Both institutions expected me to perform at the same level as everybody else, but if I needed something, they were there for me. But when I returned home to the black communities, some of my black neighbors asked why I'm going to that "white" school. I can't praise Andover Bookstore enough.

[@Stafford674]

I agree with so much, particulary on the limits on government ability to change society for the better. But which programs are doing the damage? And How?

[@tomwalker1967]

Stafford Campbell all the programs by the left hurt! Just look at the help given by Detroit Flint, etc.

[@HuyenNguyen-a2z]

Welfare, affirmative action, no child left behind, minimum wage are all public policies that though well intentioned really hurt the Black Community for then helped. Welfare have split up the Black families (fatherless children). The minimum wage effectively prevented many blacks from getting hired thus increasing the unemployment. Affirmative action and no child left behind is setting up black children for failure.

[@markmiles9581]

I regret not seeing this years earlier and reaping the benefits of this wonderfully gifted man, Thank You, Sir. I'll always seek Mr Riley's books and speeches.

[@trailtrs1]

The Great War is between THE MOB MENTALITY V LOGIC

[@marycoffman5872]

Everyone, whether red, yellow, black, white, or pea green needs to realize that we are all children of the Most High God; He made us all different, not only in skin color! He expects ALL of us to LOVE one another, and to consider each other as equals regardless of any other differences!

[@atturnec360]

What a fabulous representation. Jason Riley was perfect for delivering this message. He spoke with passion and unapologetically presenting facts from databased research. It is up to US as Afrikans in America to make the change, to organize, mobilize and stabilize from within. Peace and love family.

[@4everu984]

Jason Riley is spot on.

[@lucreziajackson1049]

Mr. Riley, I truly enjoyed your lecture. I look forward to your book.

[@jameslougheed6605]

Wow. I think i have a new favorite scholar.

[@Taskcompletes]

From 6:45 to 9:45 I can certainly relate. Any individual who says that to me or implies me being "Being White" even though I'm clearly black....I leave them right where they are in life. Many women have said this to me but they're usually the one's with several kids and of course different fathers too. Go figure

[@kenwall777]

A very bright man. I have a black friend that grew up around many of us whites. He read books, had engaging conversations and speak fluent English. So he is asked by blacks, "Why do you talk like a white man?" We are in our 60s and still friends. Anyone should be judged on character, not the color of a person's skin.

[@zulubeatsprince]

amen brother

[@yurekandsnakes]

Riley 2024 🇺🇸

[@ur2phunny]

Watching this in 2020 and wish more would realize it's the policies & funding and is not about individual success but keeping us from succeeding on purpose!

[@Orcinus1967]

A Walmart in your neighborhood means that individual businesses will be pushed out. Instead of owning a business, you will be employed by Walmart. If you want to work 30 hours or more, you may not, and thus will not be entitled to the same benefits. Walmart means less businesses, less people employed, for less money. I like my local stores and continue to shop at them, even if it costs a few dollars more.

[@MrSpazoid7777]

God Bless you Jason! ...you are a far better man than I am.

[@rebeccamiller3248]

I watched this and it made me rethink things I have been taught or thought. Empowering.

[@clifflee1358]

I am pragmatic and now conservative (before I leaned to liberal). I respect Thomas Sowell and Jason Riley a lot because they have brilliant mind. But can it be possible that some people may not have such capability (IQ and EQ) to move themselves out of the adversities? My cousin never attended a college, and he was a troubled teenage before. He smoked and hang around with some bad friends during high school time. His father had bad relationship with him and they rarely talked to each other. His mother also couldn't get along with him very well. However, my cousin is extremely interested in computer and software. He didn't have a chance to graduate from high school gracefully. But he taught himself the computer skills and programming skills all by himself, and he even knows how to do hackings. He mastered quite a lot of amazing tech stuff and started his own company. He made millions dollar and even taught PHD students how to program. However, all his previous peers and drop-out friends ended in jails. I believe he has high IQ which helps him get out of the underclass situation.

[@MrAceman82]

There is not so much in IQ or EQ, as what truly matter is the mindset. Even if your friend is high IQ or EQ, but still hold the old mindset, he would also ended in jails, or even worse. The mindset matters, then the IQ and EQ. Also the races have nothing common, always the mindset. The conservatives and libertarians are not richer than liberals, but hey they different mindset. Your life, your decisions, your responsibility. You are responsible for own ship and your family, and no one else. The most libertarians and conservatives have strong work ethics. Speaking the slavery, my people also were enslaved for 5 century under Ottoman Empire. It is absurdity to blame the Turks for our own problems.

[@MixtapeKilla2004]

Conservatives so far, their policy proposals don’t add up. And you can’t chalk it up to an appetite for sacrifice, because for all that the GOP is asking from the poor, they’ve fought hard to protect the rich from having to make any sacrifices. So far, it’s been program cuts for the poor and tax cuts for the rich. It’s a disappointing set of priorities.

[@theway77744]

I think Riley is right on point. As a black man, pondering some of the data, looking at my own experiences and trying to remain as objective as possible, I found myself wondering HOW (not really why) certain outcomes came to be. I certainly believe EVERY SINGLE DYNAMIC that takes place CAN NOT be answered. ie, Now this may sound frivolous but i'm simply trying to make a point....why it's easier for one particular culture to keep the "beat" than another. Or why one culture (for the most part) would prefer their food prepared a certain way. My point, so much of the NEGATIVE outcomes, point to us being human. Now, stick with me. Immediately after the civil rights era (or BECAUSE OF IT) there was and still is this LET'S STICK TOGETHER mentality. Result, some things should be...shunned...vulgar music, out of wedlock births, acceptance of certain crimes or how crime is viewed, to name a few. I agree with Riley about 95%, I'm almost done with the book (not sure if he touches on this) but one aspect I have not heard is what...."handouts" do to the human spirit, the human drive, or self worth. This area, this point is VITAL.

[@Dinora2911]

Im buying his book. Im currently reading the 'End of Racism' (excellent)... As far as 'handout'... thats not a black problem... that's a poor people problem. Which if other issues get addressed that issue would self correct. Your thoughts.

[@theway77744]

Dana Lavoe I did finish the book and actually read it again. just like a movie, there are always things you pick up on the second go round. Riley does address the issue of a person's spirit, drive, motivation being effected by social programs that encourage very little ambition. No question, you will be....surprised, enlightened and possibly a little angry after reading the book. EXCELLENT read.

[@Dinora2911]

Cool. Thx for the feedback.

[@jamiirali1]

the differences between the black american vs. africans and west indians is that there is not widespread talk of " you cant achieve in a white mans world" overseas like there is here..im american and when some of my northern relatives from new york and jersey would come down to north carolina where i lived at the time in the 80s they would kick that bullshit to us but the thing is we lived in the deep south and regardless of racism which we didnt experience like in my fathers time we still had the common sense to know that education was the key out of poverty...and alot of my friends white black and hispanic grew up in rural towns in which some houses were dilapidated but regardless of how poor they were they went to college or the military and were successful...now as poor as some people in this country think they are keep in mind that there is no section 8 or welfare in foreign black countries and some countries experience 2x more poverty than the welfare kings and queens in this country. yet when foreign blacks come here and see opportunities that dont exist in their own countries they jump on them...for example central americans working jobs we wont..i tell young people all the time to stop procrastinating and find a job to which i hear there aint no jobs ...meanwhile that honduran who barely speaks english is working at mcdonalds or checkers..no jobs? their reply is i aint flippin no burgers...when i was in the Philippines and i asked them if they had social services they didnt understand and when i explained welfare they looked confused and said that welfare would encourage laziness in their county..i was like even they who are in a economically struggling country realize the trappings of welfare so sitting around griping and moaning about racism which has been around since the beginning of time and will exist until the end while other groups surpass you is a waste of time...

[@jamiirali1]

spot light never once said all blacks and whoever said there were not obstacles? older people in my family had far more " obstacles" yet they still succeeded while growing up in the jim crow south and they faced far more racism and violence than today....racism etc..etc..is a diversion to be ignored by foreigners who live in poverty levels far below then that of those in american cities and it is so because many establish their own communities rather than trying to assimilate like we do..there has never been a time in this planets history that the majority has shared equitably with the minority...perhaps if we did for ourself in and by ourselves like malcolm or garvey suggested we would have the success of a chinatown or korea town or even in like the africans here in harlem.. I know we had a couple of communities like Black Wall Street and Tulsa Oklahoma that were destroyed but that does not account for today... there can be another Black Wall Street as we have plenty of entertainers musicians actors etc etc as well as what they consider the Black Elite to make that happen and if it doesn't happen then we can't blame anybody else but us... the chinese after being exploited while building the railroad had the common sense not to assimilate because they knew there would be no equality thats why they did for self...statistics are cool to quote but the bottom line is waiting for equality and even reparations is a waste.. what i find interesting is despite the obstacles black intellectuals including professor eric michael dyson and marc lamont hill will cite obstacles" and tell the so called lower class that they cant make it in a oppressive racist society yet they were able to succeed but i guess the rest of us are inept.... it may sound like over simplification but it seemed to work for other groups so the more we worry about obstacles like racism reparations and affirmative action we are going to look as if we're standing still While others come to this country and move ahead...

[@jamiirali1]

spot light the answer does not lay with the black elite or oprah but i mentioned them to say if the monetary resources we have were pooled rogether like other groups do we would not be concerned with obstacles...i would hate to think that 50 years from now we are still talking about slavery when in that time we could have done something productive like build instead of playing the forever victim role....and yes other groups have a different history than we do but slavery does not explain alot of the problems we have today....even as this brother quotes douglas as answering the what do we do with freed slaves in which he replied " do nothing but give us EQUAL opportunity douglas must have known the majority vs. minority rule concerning equity....we cant go forward looking backward

[@ParahGore]

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[@jamiirali1]

spot light I have heard arguments between conservatives and liberals and then I have heard arguments from those who consider themselves black nationalist but then an interesting thing happened along the way where the emergence of the conservative black nationalist is born between the union of conservatism and black nationalism in which both can survive with each other because there's nothing wrong with preserving your past and Legacy however progressively speaking we have to look at our current situation and have the mindset to build a the future as well as Preserve the past with a balance... I'm not politically astute however just as Siddhartha Gautama Buddha once taught we must take the middle ground in between the two extremes and in that middle ground May one find the answer.. and you're right it definitely will not be an easy task..

[@Zumanimone]

If you look at my picture, you can tell that I am black. I am also gay. I can't speak for all blacks or all gays, but I can only speak from my experiences. My experiences have shaped my views of America and explains why I am a liberal and a democrat. I have benefited from democratic policies. I was born in 1970, my mother was born in the Jim Crow south in 1929. (God bless, she is still alive and in good health and still very independent). I am the youngest of six children. I grew up in a single parent household. My father was in an out of my life. Welfare allowed my mother to stay home. I never had a babysitter in my life accept that my brother or sister might have watched me for an hour or two while my mother went to the store. Food stamps allowed me to never starve. We always had fresh vegetables and fruit in the house. Not once did I eat a canned or frozen vegetable in my childhood. Government programs allowed me to get a college degree with a $6000 debt and I was able to obtain a Masters degree. Two of my brothers out of 3 who had kids were full time fathers. None of my brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces have been incarcerated or on welfare. One important value we had in our family is that family help each other. You can't depend on anyone else but your family. Even when circumstances like the economy, divorce, and death leaves a family to be a single parent household,. the important thing is to have a supportive family and community. "It takes a village to raise a child" What the author forgot to mention earlier that in the 1960s, blacks were more depended on each other during segregation. They had a community that help support one another. And that has been lost in the black community. We no longer have a community. My mother who grew up in Jim Crow south, did not teach me to be a victim and to blame whites for everything. But she has taught me that being black person is not easy in America. While I do agree with Jason, I also believe that institutional racism does exist. While we can't blame every thing on racism, racism exist and that is just a fact in America. However, racism is not a reason to not achieve your dreams. Also, whites can not ignore that racism exist when it blatantly happens either. For example, we must eliminate harsh drug wars. If we want black men to be fathers. Let's start there!

[@bindasbolre]

+Robert Frazier your experience would make you an outlier not the norm! he clearly stated the facts of how in terms of % the standard of living & quality of life for blacks have gone from bad to worse Also an fyi...you got SSI not because u are black but because were poor.....a poor white person would have also received the same help!

[@Zumanimone]

FYI... I didn't receive SSI. I never said my family and I was disable. I simple stated that we benefited from government programs, family values and community which is lost today, which also can improve the standard of living and the quality of life for blacks. Also, I never in my comment said I received benefits because I was black. However, many white poor whites vote Republican when there are social programs that benefit them. I was puzzled by your "FYI", because it had nothing to do with my comment.

[@raultiangson5666]

Robert Frazier The Dems is not trying to help you they are pandering to you and has always take you for granted one of the agenda they push is race and identity politics to make you feel good and keep you in the Democratic plantation to keep you down you need to be able to think for self rather than go with groupthink

[@neilbarker5003]

Visiting from 2020 via the way back machine. With this much factual knowledge out there, what happened? This man and others know. To bad wisdom has been disregarded and the voice of reason silenced.

[@Wbirk8000]

God Bless Jason Riley!

[@nascar0509]

The curse of cultural Marxism.

[@enlightenedexceptionalism7206]

Please date the post, and mention the date in the introduction.

[@s.williswalker9471]

I like this guy

[@sab2871]

Riley , gee did not think that was him , seen him lots of time on TV , good to see him , he's sharp , very smart guy , WSW editoral board , you don't get that by " blowing the right boss " , he knows his stuff

[@jumbojet8]

Great American! Thank you, sir.

[@lisadisbrow7653]

Im listening in 2020. I teach in public schools. Jason’s comments regarding Asian student success without Asian teachers was great!!! Also in 2020 we now have a Republican president Trump asking for black, hispanic, asian support based on economic goals. Blexit!!!! I didnt know there was Republican support for segregation. Much to learn.

[@albakambouris8067]

You have unfortunately many blacks , I know one that will hat Jason Riley. She is committed to show off her incredible intelligence....but intelligence without Wisdom is truly unwise. I love Jason Riley

[@MartinSage]

Having lived in Asia for 7yrs I can tell you that educational success comes from family influence on children. In Asia education is the top priority in the family. My Asian step -daughter went to 2 schools in her teens. Black families just don't care about their kids. Also, most Asian families have not just a father+mother but extended family for support where Blacks mostly live in a single parent house with little to no family support.

[@CraigCastanet]

I could cry about his anecdote regarding his niece. The self-destruction of the black mind. And Jason had to endure this while growing up. Hugs to Jason.

[@magicskyfairy69]

It's a little awkward to be quoting cosby in a positive light at this stage of the game

[@Orcinus1967]

Its about what Cosby said on the subject, not the women he drugged. Different issue. It is awkward, but the point is valid.

[@joycemeadows1821]

This man is so easy to listen to & undetstand. Very smart & who American Blacks need to listen to not the Dem thugs who can care less about them. Only want the vote & no one to look up to. Trump is helping all be can also. I wish every Black person could hear this speech. He ought to tour.

[@mr.edwards4863]

But the republican, keep pushing to chip away at the civil rights bill along with voting rights act

[@dichebach]

Honestly, there is more strength and virtue in the African American community than in the sum-total of all the other ethnic communities on Earth combined (setting aside perhaps the Jews). When you consider what these people have historically endured and how they as an ethnic group have risen through these impediments, I think you can reach little other conclusion. The problem is that, that strength--which manifests most resoundingly in a large proportion of the population and is often absent in a small proportion--is continually handicapped with the albatross-around-the-neck of the "soft bigotry of low expectations." We as a society must stop defending the least virtuous components of that people and instead champion those who are exemplars of the strength, virtues and civility. Black Virtue Matters. Incivility, no matter what the skin color, must be scorned.

[@JosephdiCaro]

this is a VERY smart man

[@bluecollarnobody4217]

If I was president right now and this would definitely piss a lot of people off I would get rid of the Democrats and all the major cities lower taxes bring jobs back to the major cities that are already right infested and filled with nothing but unemployed drug ridden crime ridden areas next I would pass a piece of legislation noon in my own words as the welfare reform act it would state that you have to go out and look for a job and I would set up a national database connected to all the major employers that I would sponsor as a president to give jobs to these people based on their qualifications that database with trace all the interviews all the opportunities if you have an interview and an opportunity and you do not show up you do not get welfareIn the meantime you can serve 30 hours of community service and whatever community that you reside if you fail to show up to that community service without a doctors note or some kind a legitimate excuse you do not get welfare it would force the people that have depended on welfare for the past 50 and 60 years to go out and get a real job now don’t get it twisted there are people out there that actually need welfare they would get welfare no questions asked and it would be a nationwide drug test once a week you would half to give a sample of hair have a government sponsored laboratory to show that you are drug-free as long as you were excepting welfare in on this job programIf you were taking federal funds you do not need to be going out spending money on marijuana cocaine alcohol etc. etc. and that would be a good start in my humble opinion

[@BaldWorld]

Excellent book !

[@DeFactoLeader]

I liked the obvious Jewish guy asking that question near the end where it had almost no relevance whatsoever. He asked it literally just to remind everyone "Jews, everybody! They exist!" It's like Ben Shapiro. Commendations to Jason, though. I'd say his arguments here are close to bulletproof.

[@donnabeavers7193]

+bindasbolre, I don't have an issue with Jews, do you? The same God that created us all set up Jewish society as an illustration of how He intended man to live. They also show us how, even knowing all of God's "rules", we cannot live up to them. Don't get it twisted; the reasons for antisemitism is because of their global role. They are not "better" than everyone else, but they offer hope for ultimate justice, so I am not mad at them. The fact is, you are absolutely right about all the other groups that have been treated unjustly and wickedly. As long as man wants to be in control, and that he has the ultimate answer apart from the Most High God, who revealed Himself to Israel, there will BE genocide and injustice. I'm just sayin',...

[@Isaacaguilar30]

I like his lecture but others have already said this decades ago and nothing has changed.

[@perezmoore4333]

Unfortunately you are right. However, we must keep trying.

[@maaruz1979]

Ivan Aguilar because it’s all bullshit...

[@howardking3046]

Right, Alvin, but now the blacks are beginning to say it! Eventually, everyone gets tired of playing, Where’s the pea.

[@jrumm]

The book is a good read. Where Jason Riley and other Black Conservatives continue to fall short with their argument, is their failure to mention the issue of white supremacy when it comes to laws enacted throughout history, that benefited some while continuing to place others further behind. A much better look into the federal governments policies that undermined the progress for Blacks in America is "The Invention of The White Race" by Theodore Allen. One thing you'll find reading this book is the policy's that hurt Blacks in America came from both liberals and conservatives.

[@lucreziajackson1049]

jrumm I will look into that book. Thx!

[@theway77744]

jrumm Hey, name a couple of those policies.

[@jrumm]

***** I will do you one better. First read the book,'The Invention of The White Race', by Theodore W. Allen. Then read The Atlantic article, 'The Case for Raparations' by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Both books will give you the information you seek

[@theway77744]

jrumm Not "seeking" any information. What the typical person wants from life (among many other personal things) is to live a good life and to positively influence others (family friends etc) in doing the same. The best way to do that is by YOU being personally responsible for YOU. Everyone is capable of doing it. It's easy to look back at the crazy stuff white folks did. But as I've told many black people, "white people are scared of black people" no body's holding you back. If I'm going to LOOK BACK at what took place that effected my ancestors MORE that it did me, BUT NOT look at what we black people are doing to each other, I'm a fool.

[@lukecage9836]

jrumm Coates, the shine that produced an LGBT agenda in his Black Panther comics, yeah I'll take what that fool says seriously.

[@yvonnecriado7868]

People ought to listen to this Gentlemen some more Thank you for opening these views

[@gill_efc]

I loved his explanation of give us the opportunity and then leave us alone. I had to learn this with my kids. If I continued to do everything for them, would they learn to fend for themselves? No they wouldn't. You teach the kids how and what and then let them try. If they fail, pick them up and let them try again. If they fail help them up again and let them try again. You repeat this until they learn to be successful. Doing it for them will only create dependency. There's one story from the bible that has always stuck with me and I'll practice it until I die. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime. That's what we need to be doing.

[@danw5785]

And Riley's father was a social worker in Buffalo, probably had quite a comfortable upbring and went to a state funded school. Quite easy from there to say blacks dont need any assistance or services.

[@tubo1639]

Perfectly said!!!

[@gbiota1]

This guy really uses Thomas Sowells arguments, saying blacks are mismatched with schools and citing MIT came directly from Sowell from start to finish. Not that I'm complaining, the more people who parrot Sowell the better.

[@HaLyGjQdTpReMnKmW2X]

You would be hard pressed to pick the best part of this speech.

[@RobinHautbois]

Comparison with IRISH - WONDERFUL! Thank you so much! Such a fantastic conference, and not just for dark-skins!

[@CraigCastanet]

Any ethic directed at any person that says their outcome is a product of someone else, is ABSOLUTELY DOOMS THE SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL.

[@danielwebb2648]

is racism a issue yes but not to the point that it holds people who want it back and white people are not the only racist in the country

[@wingedinfinity6715]

EXCELLENT LECTURE AND 💯 % CORRECT. 💥🙌💥

[@cherylnagy126]

watching television requires less effort, than reading books

[@peacetheworld...........7105]

Right on my brother.

[@charlesholman8757]

I had to listen to re-listen to this part (starting at 38:54). POWERFUL!

[@Freefolkcreate]

Reminds me of another wise man speaking about liberals. But you have to understand the power arrangement is such that in order to keep the government "ruling" caste on top they have to assert themselves. They have to seem absolutely necessary.

[@4edward61]

For the lady's question about the comparisons of Asians and other blacks to the African Americans, I would think it's irrelevant to the argument because these "newer" immigrants would or should have MORE reason to "feel" oppressed because of their more recent arrival here. I'd like to ask her how so many "modern" or "newer" immigrants are doing so well in all aspects than those of us who've had much longer histories in this country. Certainly nothing rises to the level of "all" or "most," but I would say many.