Regression to the mean
This is the statistical reality
that will always confound the civic nationalists and their ideals of uplift. Iron Spartan comments concerning a couple with
whom he is acquainted.
There
are a pair of black doctors married to each other at a local hospital. They
have two sons and a daughter. With every advantage normally associated with
whites, one son failed out of high school, (which is an achievement on its own
in the current education environment) went to prison for stealing cars and
breaking into houses shortly after his 18th birthday, the other son made it
into college and failed out by midterms, and the daughter has two kids by
different daddies before she turned 18.
It doesn't matter how well you
train the cat to fetch or teach the dog to use the litter box. Their kittens
and puppies are naturally going to revert to what is normal behavior for their
kind if they are not subjected to exactly the same training by external forces
that their parents were. It is one of the great ironies of the Civil
Rights movement that racism, segregation, and the continuous repression of the
black minority may have been the primary contributor to keeping the black
family together in the USA.
Conservatives always like to blame the Great Society for the demise of the black family, but the reality is that the influence of its perverse incentives were relatively limited. It appears that the most destructive aspect of the Great Society, in this particular regard, is that it permitted African-Americans to return to the dyscivilizational social arrangments historically preferred in African culture.
Every race has its exceptional individuals. Every race has statistical aberrations who should not be judged by the general stereotypes and averages. But societal policies that are made on the basis of exceptions and aberrations are almost guaranteed to be disastrous, whether the outliers are to the right or the left side of the Bell Curve.
Conservatives always like to blame the Great Society for the demise of the black family, but the reality is that the influence of its perverse incentives were relatively limited. It appears that the most destructive aspect of the Great Society, in this particular regard, is that it permitted African-Americans to return to the dyscivilizational social arrangments historically preferred in African culture.
Every race has its exceptional individuals. Every race has statistical aberrations who should not be judged by the general stereotypes and averages. But societal policies that are made on the basis of exceptions and aberrations are almost guaranteed to be disastrous, whether the outliers are to the right or the left side of the Bell Curve.
