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Those spouting the anti-capitalism garbage is in the minute minority.

So why waste packets over them? I'm curious.

Completeness. When I die, some poor grad student is going to have to figure me out. I'm being generous to posterity.

Also, I have a lot of material in 'draft' that I need to push out the door. It's a busy week, yet I still need to preserve the illusion of continuity. I wrote that in the context of the first Cosby...

What keeps blacks down according to their theories? The educational system. That thing that provides education is the thing that keeps those long-suffering black victims in ignorance. Huh? What?

It's not that simple. There is definitely a differnece in the accomodations in public school systems. For instance, in Washington, DC where I went to public school, the schools in predominiantly black neghborhoods were often rundown, the textbooks were old and torn, and teachers were sent to teach at those schools as disciplinary actions. The schools in the predominantly white neighborhoods had much better accomodations, better teachers, etc. Clearly, with two kids of equal ability, one going to each school, the one in the better environment could be assumed to have an advantage. I agree with you that '..a sense of integrity..' and a solid work ethic etc. can help you to overcome those obstacles, but not to acknowledge those obstacles is a mistake.

It's just as easy to acknowledge the advantages of the suburban school as it is the disadvantages of the ghetto school. My point? 50 years after Brown, how hard is it for blacks to move from the ghetto and find a cheap apartment in a better neighborhood. It's not as if anybody was going to get lynched. Whose parents are willing to make that effort for the sake of their children's education? The good ones.

In response, I'm going to post an update to my thinking on Loury and hypersegregation. It's unfinished and a bit contradictory, but you're right - it's not so simple.

My preliminary conclusion is that it's easier to remove the mental obstacles in black heads than to get infrastructure changes, that means that blacks have to swallow hard and make integration work, because the investments aint coming. That means change of address.

I want to add, since I'm not going to be able to post the Loury piece until this evening, that I speculate that blackfolks in the ghetto don't honestly believe that they are going to be 'Method & Red' if they migrate to the 'burbs. Instead they think that there are social and economic litmus tests that they must specially pass - that their black culture won't be accepted - that they would have to 'act white' in order to get into that cheap suburban apartment in the good school district.

If you follow what I'm saying, this is why the problem is in the ghetto mentality, not in the suburban attitude. Again, is it worth it for your kids?

Absolutely. If whitey can take flight, so can a Black family.

In my burg, there are several well-integrated 'hoods in the near and far burbs. I live in a small community with Euros, Asians, native Africans, Afro-Americans, mixed - you name it. All hard-working, all good neighbors (well, except for one cranky old bachelor - white - who plays his home theatre too loud - any good ideas to convince him otherwise??)

Dream no small dreams.

That depends on what movies he's playing.

After this comment, I'm going to paste in a long-winded diatribe that I recieved off the Kwaku Network. You'll see what kind of half-baked goo some brothers have swallowed. This goes to Darkstar. We all know how much of this entralls dem yout'.

We all know how much of this entralls dem yout'.

Huh?

Ignore the last comment. It's all about This