Jews, Chinese and Poles succeeded here though they experienced much prejudice because their cultures supported positive behavior. Black culture fails when it supports negative behavior. While prejudice may be a factor it is inadequate as an explanation.

I agree that the slave’s African Black culture was inferior to a lot of southern Anglo-Saxon culture even before the influence of English redneck culture. I also believe that before leftist honky’s good intentions were backed up by legislation, black culture was beginning to self correct.

There are much evidence. Black unemployment and illegitimacy rates were lower than white’s both among adults and teenagers in the 40’s and 50’s according to Sowell and others. One of the best if not the best academic high schools in Washington D.C. in the 40’s was the black segregated high school according to my mother who lived there.

My intended larger point was that culture–not race–is the problem. There is certainly room for discussion about how culture develops.

In any case, man possessing free will, bad behavior is logically the responsibility of the one displaying it regardless of his culture.

Black slaves copied this culture. They passed it onto their progeny. It remains to this day to a substantial degree among blacks though it has withered away considerably among whites.

Thomas Sowell documents this history in his book, “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”. Blacks from other parts of the world don’t exhibit so called “authentic” black culture.

Government welfare programs encouraged this behavior by rewarding its product, unwed mothers, through subsidies–thus helping to keep it alive.

People who embrace this culture tend to fail not because of their race but because these behaviors aren’t productive.

I am not a racist though I am a culturalist. By that I mean I believe some cultures are superior to others.