Differences in cultures

Prager, don't leave out the Caribbean blacks. There are enough of them here, and whose children have been here, to make some studies of the differences between them, with their more European upbringing, and our descendants of blacks based originally in the South, stand out in sharp contrast to the whining "advocacy" spokesmen who would have everyone believe that having dark skin means you cannot succeed in America. That is to say, Caribbean blacks do just fine; it's the redneck values our fifth-generation blacks acquired from their Southern slave owners, which they even seem to have carried with them when they migrated to industrial areas, that make them fail.

I'm pretty sure you've read Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals", but maybe you've forgotten what he said in it. It's a good expose of how long a bad culture, which we think of as white, affects people--even more than their lousy economic condition.