From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   A rapper in 1990s said, “You ain't never been to the ghetto, don't ever come   
   to the ghetto. You won't understand the ghetto.”   
      
   Washington Times, a conservative newspaper in DC, once stated that the Left   
   was wrong to see the ghetto culture as being genuine. It said instead that it   
   was based on the Southern white culture. It called them “black rednecks.”   
      
   There are certainly things in common between the two. Both like to beat up   
   women. Both are viciously assimilative and conformist. But the worst part   
   about both is their anti-intellectual attitude. They think that kids who take   
   school seriously are “   
   know-it-alls” and “think they're better than everyone else.” So they   
   destroy the best things that come to life there, resulting in vast destructive   
   effect on both.   
      
   What qualifies these people to say that they speak for “everyone else” - 7   
   billion people, most of them nothing like themselves? Whatever arrogance they   
   ascribe to the serious student, theirs is far greater. And it is a far more   
   destructive form of    
   arrogance. The “nerds” and “know-it-alls” make meaningful   
   contributions – in science, in engineering, in culture and in thought, in   
   all sorts of ways. Whereas very little of any good is accomplished by   
   gangsters and the KKK.   
      
   Now many black people have a strong sense of victimization; and many of them   
   have indeed learned all sorts of bad habits – both from Southern American   
   whites and from the gangsters. All these habits however can be unlearned.   
   That's what psychology is    
   for; that's what sociology is for; that's what Christianity is for as well.   
      
   I have known any number of intelligent and articulate people from the inner   
   city. I've been for a long time a part of a mostly-black poetry group in DC,   
   and for the most part I liked what I saw. One significant situation involved a   
   member of the group,    
   who was a teacher in inner city, noticing that the kids were all afraid to be   
   different. One day he walked into the classroom wearing yellow pants. A   
   student shouted, “Mr. Anderson, you are wearing yellow pants.” He   
   deadpanned, “Why are you so    
   afraid to be different?”   
      
   Well there appears to be a good reason why they are afraid to be different.   
   They have created a viciously assimilative culture that maliciously attacks   
   anything that differs from it in any way, whether for good or for bad. The   
   white man did not do this    
   to them; they did. So now they viciously attack anything that differs in any   
   way from themselves – meaning, anything with a chance at any actual kind of   
   goodness or any actual kind of contribution to the world. They destroy the   
   lights among themselves,    
   and they live in hell.   
      
   They are not in any way the only people in the world who do that. There are   
   any number of folks in the South who drive around in trucks with signs “My   
   son beat up your honor student.” They attack their best minds, and in so   
   doing they destroy their    
   own competitiveness. So now we see China, India and any number of other places   
   getting ahead because they do not do such a thing. America loses   
   competitiveness because of such practices. China and India did not do this to   
   them, nor did the Jews or the    
   liberals do this to them. They did it to themselves.   
      
   Another practice that undermines America's competitiveness is its equation of   
   creative and original thinking with psychopathology. If it is narcissistic to   
   seek great success, or if it is narcissistic to have original ideas, then   
   America owes most of    
   what it has to narcissists. These would include its founders; most of its   
   industrialists and business leaders; and its most influential scientists,   
   inventors and thinkers. Both Clinton and Trump have been accused of   
   narcissism, and the first has been one    
   of its most successful presidents and the second has been a business visionary   
   who has produced some of the best architecture in contemporary America. Steven   
   Jobs and Bill Gates have been accused of narcissism as well, and the two   
   between them have    
   computerized the world. The idea that such things are narcissism cuts to the   
   core of what made America great in the first place; and if America chooses to   
   attack its best minds then the spirit that made America great would go   
   elsewhere and make the rest    
   of the world outcompete America.   
      
   As indeed it well should.   
      
   How can the inner city improve? Well the first thing that it can do is stop   
   attacking the students who take school seriously. Doing so undermines   
   education in inner city, and whatever money the government spends on the   
   schools is money wasted if children    
   do not actually want to learn. The problem with the educational system in the   
   inner city is not lack of funding, but lack of interest. If the students do   
   not want to learn, then no money spent would be enough. The parents must   
   prevail on their children    
   to learn, and the brutal gangs and cliques that take place in the schools must   
   be disciplined and defeated. In Russia the way to keep students away from   
   drugs and crime has been to create extended time programs for the students,   
   where they are learning    
   or playing. It has also been to assign lots of homework. I have also seen   
   churches in America that create programs for teenagers to keep them playing   
   basketball and learning the Bible instead of doing drugs. If either of this is   
   done, there will be less    
   influence of gangs and cliques and more of school; and instead of doing drugs   
   and killing each other the kids would be learning.   
      
   Another thing it can do is do away with assimilativeness. Most of the people   
   who make meaningful contributions are people who aren't like those around   
   them, and the inner city – and other places – must stop attacking people   
   who differ from themselves.   
    They have to stop acting like pigeons and start acting like human beings. The   
   inner city gains nothing from attacking those who are different from them and   
   in the process loses its best minds. The result is disastrous for the inner   
   city and for the    
   black race.   
      
   Furthermore, if they think that studying is “acting white,” they will need   
   to see more Chinese and Koreans among them. These people are not white, but   
   they study harder than either the black people or the white people. The   
   greater presence of such    
   people will puncture the lie that these people claim – that they speak for   
   “everyone else” and that the Chinese or the Koreans don't.   
      
      
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