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...much of a problem in the U.S. Instead, all our racial troubles can be traced to the fact that "black culture" is so dysfunctional it amounts to a "civilizational" gap between African Americans and the rest of society. He does not bother to differentiate between the crime-ridden urban underclass and the middle-class high achievers such as Woodson, head of the Washington-based National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and Loury, a professor at Boston University...
...certainly does need a searching debate on racially tinged issues from affirmative action to welfare dependency and crime. It is quite clear, for example, that racism alone cannot account for the sorry plight of the underclass and that traditional civil rights remedies can do nothing to solve it. But such a dialogue stands little chance of being productive if it is polluted by the nonsense D'Souza is peddling. Those who want to deal honestly with race can begin by boycotting his book--not because it's politically incorrect, but because it is just plain wrong...
...care of his children is a bum and deserves no respect." Presumably, Gingrich is talking about financial support. Thus the moral of the story is: men with money (likely Republican voters) are free to move from wife to wife, but poorer men (unlikely Republican voters) are not. If some underclass man dumps a wife, he's a cause of America's festering moral crisis. But if Gingrich dumps a wife, he's--well, Speaker of the House...
...problems are the fault of pointy-headed liberals and inner-city blacks. And we shouldn't be fooled into believing salvation can be attained without big sacrifices from other Americans. Even if it's true that mindless bureaucracy ruined the public schools and that welfare-state liberals created the underclass, the fact remains that at this point neither problem will be solved without lots of money, more wisely spent. Of course, that money would come from middle- and upper-class taxpayers--potential Republican voters. So much for that idea...
...what about the two movies cited as "nightmares of depravity"? Natural Born Killers is, yes, one big mess of a movie. But it actually supports Dole's argument. It says the tabloid media, obsessed with covering the ugliness of underclass American life, encourage emulative behavior among the brain-damaged...