Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "PragerU"
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@ShabazzTBL
You say that 550 years of slavery explains the racial discrepancy in America today.
A few questions for you:
1. More unmelanized slaves were held in North Africa than were melanized ones in North America. Why are those effects not felt by the descendants of the aforementioned unmelanized?
2. Where did you get the number 550 from anyway? Slavery has been around for thousands of years. The transatlantic slave trade lasted far less than 550 years. For nearly the entire history of slavery, people were enslaved by their own.
3. A century ago, melanized people had a higher rate of employment, and a higher rate of marriage, than did the unmelanized. What went wrong? Why has the melanized community lost so much ground since the advent of the Civil Rights era?
4. Immigrant groups are constantly arriving in the US, many with barely more than the clothes on their backs. They come from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, China, Korea, Vietnam, and other such countries, some of them speaking no more than a few words of English. They move into slums, with both parents working menial jobs for 80+ hours a week each, and push their children to study all day and night to improve their lives. Those kids get into excellent schools, and are highly successful. In fact, they are statistically more succesful than the progeny of American slaves. How can that possibly be? How can they surpass those whose slavery ended 150 years ago - and whose legal equality came nearly sixty years ago - in a single generation?
The answer is that, as the brilliant Thomas Sowell has proven repeatedly, the Great Society began a terrible era for the melanized in the US, as the government incentivized unproductive behavior, thus creating more of it. Three generations in, and we have the mess that currently is.
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@Builder the bob
What Lindsay supplied here was an example, not a definition. CRT is not easily definable in a short video. Lindsay is a major academic, and wrote a book on CRT. You think he can't define it??
CRT starts out with the assumption that all racial inequality is inequity, and all statistical differences in results by race are necessarily due to racial differences. It ignores numerous obvious difficulties:
A. Single variable statistics are near-useless
B. Predetermined single-variable statistics are, if this is possible, even worse
C. The overwhelming evidence of other data being the cause of differentials is extremely strong:
* The timing pre- and post- the civil rights
era
* Other factors, such as median age and,
more importantly, family dynamics
When one is preconditioned to see the world based upon a pre-chosen narrative, the result will obviously be heavily skewed. CRT is not only a prime example of such a pre-decided lens, it was explicitly designed by its radical authors as a political polemic.
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