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ANOTHER NOMINATION FOR “COURAGE IN THE FACE OF COMMUNITY PRESSURE”

GOOD INTENTIONS AREN’T ENOUGH.  At least, that’s what John McWhorter, today’s candidate. tells us.  LBJ’s Great Society had wonderful intentions - to rid the U.S. of poverty in a single generation.  The results were not what was expected.

What Katrina stripped bare, then, was not white supremacy, but that culture matters — even if what created the culture was misguided white benevolence. Social scientists neglect that before the 1960s poor blacks knew plenty of economic downturns and plenty more racism.

But before the 1960s the kinds of behaviour so common among the blacks stranded in the Superdome, possibly including multiple rapes, was a fringe phenomenon. Only after the 1960s did it become a community norm.

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