J. McWhorter on Victimology

John McWhorter on Victimology

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[cjs33139]

@FuzzyCan I agree. As a latino/black from the ghetto Bronx in the 80s, I still went to college, excelled in school, stayed out of trouble, drugs, avoided getting women pregnant & am successful today because I WANTED TO. The excuse that blacks can't get ahead is just that: an excuse or laziness. Even in the 80s, there were scholarships for us, financial aid, Pell Grants, yet most of the black kids in my area chose crime & the ghetto over college. That's their fault & NOT White folks.

[hagnuj]

A lot of other races still get fast tracked (i.e.) grades, promoted, etc.etc. But we need to do for self.

[shadowmancer122]

@cjs33139

I'm an independent conservative. I see the Democrats as aiding and abetting the dysfunctionality within the black/Latino community. By the way, I'm from Brooklyn.

[shadowmancer122]

@YearOfTheSens

lol @ the dumbasses like yourself who believe the bs that you wrote.

[cjs33139]

@shadowmancer122 Thanks! I am by no means a conservative, yet a lot of their ideals of self reliance & self fulfillment ring true with me yet I vote Democrat every time. I just get tired of blacks/latinos hating on the "white man" & blaming them for every minority ill. Asians are immigrants & despite racism, they excel. Blacks immigrants from Africa also excel, get degrees, become professionals too, so why can't African Americans excel? Because we want someone else to blame for our failures.

[shadowmancer122]

@cjs33139

I agree with you 100%. It's to bad that your way of thinking is still in short supply here in NYC.

[onegcds]

@FuckUtube2008 So are you gonna stand up and be positive and do something or are you just going to rant about how the white man has kept you down? In this day and age you can make it in this world if you apply yourself. Dont give me this whole "the white man is still keeping me down" because its fucking lame man!

[YearOfTheSens]

lol @ all the dumbasses here warping everything mcwhorter says to say "see, this justifies every time i've called a beaner or black person lazy".

[DrunkenPoetic]

Life is harder for some than others. Working class kids usually become working class adults.

It ain't brain science.

We don't live in a meritocracy.

[ashken79]

Brilliant,honest man!

[emahunn]

@cambocan I am simply clarifying my point. It is Gramsci's take--a take to which I subscribe--that organic intellectuals are not solely activists, although they can be. Organic intellectuals, rather, are intellectuals who do not come from capitalist educational institutions. It is, indeed, more likely, considering the composition of the education acquired by organic intellectuals, for organic intellectuals to be activists. Furthermore, you are using language I did not use nor imply...