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Why Is the American Dream Dead In The South?
Authored by Matthew O'Brien, originally posted at The Atlantic,
The top 1 percent aren't killing the American Dream. Something else is—if you live in the wrong place.
Here's what we know. The rich are getting richer, but according to a blockbuster new study that hasn't made it harder for the poor to become rich. The good news is that people at the bottom are just as likely to move up the income ladder today as they were 50 years ago. But the bad news is that people at the bottom are just as likely to move up the income ladder today as they were 50 years ago.
We like to tell ourselves that America is the land of opportunity, but the reality doesn't match the rhetoric—and hasn't for awhile. We actually have less social mobility than countries like Denmark. And that's more of a problem the more inequality there is. Think about it like this: Moving up matters more when there's a bigger gap between the rich and poor. So even though mobility hasn't gotten worse lately, it has worse consequences today because inequality is worse.
But it's a little deceiving to talk about "our" mobility rate. There isn't one or two or even three Americas. There are hundreds. The research team of Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Herndon, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez looked at each "commuting zone" (CZ) within the U.S., and found that the American Dream is still alive in some parts of the country. Kids born into the bottom 20 percent of households, for example, have a 12.9 percent chance of reaching the top 20 percent if they live in San Jose. That's about as high as it is in the highest mobility countries. But kids born in Charlotte only have a 4.4 percent chance of moving from the bottom to the top 20 percent. That's worse than any developed country we have numbers for.
You can see what my colleague Derek Thompson calls the geography of the American Dream in the map below. It shows where kids have the best and worst chances of moving up from the bottom to the top quintile—and that the South looks more like a banana republic. (Note: darker colors mean there is less mobility, and lighter colors mean that there's more).
So what makes northern California different from North Carolina? Well, we don't know for sure, but we do know what doesn't. The researchers found that local tax and spending decisions explain some, but not too much, of this regional mobility gap. Neither does local school quality, at least judged by class size. Local area colleges and tuition were also non-factors. And so were local labor markets, including their share of manufacturing jobs and those facing cheap, foreign competition. But here's what we know does matter. Just how much isn't clear.
1. Race. The researchers found that the larger the black population, the lower the upward mobility. But this isn't actually a black-white issue. It's a rich-poor one. Low-income whites who live in areas with more black people also have a harder time moving up the income ladder. In other words, it's something about the places that black people live that hurts mobility.
2. Segregation. Something like the poor being isolated—isolated from good jobs and good schools. See, the more black people a place has, the more divided it tends to be along racial and economic lines. The more divided it is, the more sprawl there is. And the more sprawl there is, the less higher-income people are willing to invest in things like public transit.
That leaves the poor in the ghetto, with no way out for their American Dreams. They're stuck with bad schools, bad jobs, and bad commutes if they do manage to find better work. So it should be no surprise that the researchers found that racial segregation, income segregation, and sprawl are all strongly negatively correlated with upward mobility. But what might surprise is that it doesn't matter whether the rich cut themselves off from everybody else. What matters is whether the middle class cut themselves off from the poor.
3. Social Capital. Living around the middle class doesn't just bring better jobs and schools (which help, but probably aren't enough). It brings better institutions too. Things like religious groups, civic groups, and any other kind of group that keeps people from bowling alone. All of these are strongly correlated with more mobility—which is why Utah, with its vast Mormon safety net and services, is one of the best places to be born poor.
4. Inequality. The 1 percent are different from you and me—they have so much more money that they live in a different world. It's a world of $40,000 a year preschool, "nanny consultants," and an endless supply of private tutors. It keeps the children of the super-rich from falling too far, but it doesn't keep the poor from rising (at least into the top quintile). There just wasn't any correlation between the rise and rise of the 1 percent and upward mobility. In other words, it doesn't hurt your chances of making it into the top 80 to 99 percent if the super-rich get even richer.
But inequality does matter within the bottom 99 percent. The bigger the gap between the poor and the merely rich (as opposed to the super-rich), the less mobility there is. It makes intuitive sense: it's easier to jump from the bottom near the top if you don't have to jump as far. The top 1 percent are just so high now that it doesn't matter how much higher they go; almost nobody can reach them.
5. Family Structure. Forget race, forget jobs, forget schools, forget churches, forget neighborhoods, and forget the top 1—or maybe 10—percent. Nothing matters more for moving up than who raises you. Or, in econospeak, nothing correlates with upward mobility more than the number of single parents, divorcees, and married couples. The cliché is true: Kids do best in stable, two-parent homes.
It's not clear what, if any, policy lessons we should take from this truism. As my colleague Jordan Weissmann points out, we don't really have any idea how to promote marriage. We can try telling people how great it is to get hitched. We can even get rid of the marriage penalties some low-income couples face. But these won't, and haven't, been making more people exchange till-death-do-us-parts. And should we even want to? Steve Waldman points out that poor women know better than upper-middle-class people yelling at them to get married whether they should or not. They know whether their boyfriend would make a good husband, a good father, a good teacher. And they know that marriage is important. That they're not getting married tells us something. Sometimes no match is better than a bad match.
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Flat mobility is the defining Rorschach test of our time. Conservatives look at it, and say, see, we shouldn't worry about the top 1 percent, because they're not making the American Dream any harder to achieve. But liberals look at it, and say see, we should care about inequality, because it can make the American Dream harder to achieve—and it raises the stakes if you don't. But both want to increase upward mobility. It's not enough to keep it where it was 50 years ago. We need to actually become the land of opportunity.
The American Dream is alive in Denmark and Finland and Sweden. And in San Jose and Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh. But it's dead in Atlanta and Raleigh and Charlotte. And in Indianapolis and Detroit and Jacksonville. Fixing that isn't just about redistribution. It's about building denser cities, so the poor aren't so segregated. About good schools that you don't have to live in the right (and expensive) neighborhood to attend. And about ending a destructive drug war that imprisons and blights the job prospects of far too many non-violent offenders—further shrinking the pool of "marriageable" men.
Because the American Dream is dead in too much of America.
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Free and equal pertained only to white/Europeans
egad. how dumb can you be. the map is almost perfect match for US african population. it also matches obesity, diabetes, and welfare uptake rates. givng food welfare to fat black people will not produce mobility.
They are the definition of r-selection
r-selected organisms usually: (blacks/latinos)
K-selected organisms usually:(whites/asians)
quote:
One can imagine an egalitarian going to a race track and saying to the first person he meets, “You know, all those horses would be equally as fast if they had just had the same quality of food and training.” Blank stare. “I think some of the horses lose because people think they can’t win and the horses believe it,” he adds. Another blank stare. His last statement is, “Horse racing is really just plain wrong because it makes the horses that lose feel bad about themselves.” Yet, when he makes the same points about people, hundreds of billions of dollars chase his every word.
Egalitarianism is a reckless experiment promoted by rebellious teenage minds, a bet of the entire future of our species, based on only the arrogance of those who will brook no challenge to their ideology
I like that you go into what term Economic Leakage/Monetary Leakage.
Your terms about Fiat Money, Debt Based Money, Interest Based Money... seem to add to my thesis. Although I have a limited ability to focus and learn it seems.
I have clicked on your link for Sovereign Money. But haven't done it justice yet. I tried to enlist a friend to look at your work... still waiting to see if that pays off.
Wanted to post two links. One is just news items from Drugereport.com about the attack on founding ideas through immigration. You feel this is a threat as well, or perhaps with real leadership you see this as only a symptom of the Cronyism and Power of the Wealthy?
But here is the main one:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-02/how-greece-has-fallen-victim-ec...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-02/china-state-official-hints-beij... (Drudgereport link headlines on immigration, but could just as well be about Free Trade Agreements, Outsourcing, Off Shore Production, Off Shore Tax Jurisdictions, Wealth Stashing Money Off Shore and not investing since they know the market is not based on conservative principals)
Here is a third link that questions the EU Motive:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-02/china-state-official-hints-beij...
Maybe people in the South are happy being around their relatives and old family friends and are able to enjoy life without desperately, frantically trying to beat their neighbor's salary. I'm from New England and yes, there is stress upon "getting ahead," and it is pretty widespread; lower middle class people feel it, too. But it doesn't make people happier; it makes them miserable. Also I'm trying to figure out how everyone is supposed to get ahead; doesn't someone get bumped from the "gloriously successful" class when someone else moves into it?
Atlantic author thinks that everyone should aspire to his socio-economic class's crappy values.
Not that I'm opposed to education; but I'm weird, I like it for its own sake.
Re San Jose: lots of ultra poor immigrant kids; not surprising that a fair number would "make good" economically. Re Salt Lake City: huge families that are technically very poor but have a lot of social capital, I would bet.
People in the South are like people everywhere else. Some good, some bad. Some are oppressed by corrupt politicians and some buy political favors. The dividing of classes, regions, races, ages, and sexes is a ploy used by the left to distract from their theft and control.
There is no iota o social mobility in the US, we are living in feudal 800 years old Anglo-American regime where social immobility rains supreme. The 99.9 percent of millionaires inherited and the rest 0.01% are illegitimate children of the same millionaires or billionaires who are paraded on TV to propagandize this BS about American dream.
The disparity between US regions or states is created as a mater of national policy supporting segregation, not race segregation, although it results in it, but class segregation and apartheid of professional opportunities.
Some people are confused, see other people making ten times more than their parents and calling it advancement but nobody is looking at total cost of living which is some areas has risen 10 to 20 times so there is no even real income bracket mobility at all. And nobody is looking at real structural advancement in the society since it is none.
Those oligarchs like NBA players wetting their dicks anywhere they can, that's their religion and hence army of unaware young people become astounded when suddenly being afforded tremendous opportunity from thin air and honestly testify to so-called unlimited opportunity of US capitalism while thousands of better qualified young people are told to piss off.
Just take C. Clinton, paid for nothing at MSM more than her dad in presidential office. Talking about American dream.
Successful orphans are always believers in great USA chance not really knowing their real parents. “Unsuccessful” people are discarded and do not enter any statistics in Atlantic or other corporate media.
The ruling elites are refreshing their genetics by continuously fornicating with lower classes like there is no tomorrow, creating future reservoir of higher cast similar way like in India where all the westernized middle class coming from well to do few clans.
There cannot be any significant social mobility in the US or in most of the courtiers in the world since recalcitrant social strata is a foundation of power structure running by ruling elites and hence can never be reality for rest of us unless it falls.
If i didn't know better, I'd think this POS was written by a Agenda 21 supporter. And by the way; Don't worry about the American Dream being dead, it's much too late for that.
How far back do you want to go ?.
The American Dream was built on a lie, white folks stole that continent and y'all know it. Maybe that's why it decays.
Having said that, as a kid I fell in love with the place, when I actually got to go there I wanted to be an American. It still is just a fabulous place to live and thrive.
To quote 'Morrison' "The west is the best, get here and we'll do the rest"
When the White man came he found the natives living in teepees, drinking ditch water and in perpetual, barbaric tribal warfare that routinely saw entire villages scalped. After he built the first schools and hospitals on the continent, he gave them something they couldn't give themselves, an opportunity to live a long, productive life.
Ah! Yes Mr. Frosty, the white man gave the native americans diseases that they weren't immune to, raped their women, killed the men and stole their lands, showed them how governments can lie and betray. If you ever read the real history of the white man's effects on the native americans, you would not postulate the crap that you have.
I hate to diss a fellow hedger but you have more green than me Which calls for a rebuke. swallow this, Like the white man gave the Native American alcohol and European diseases unknown to that continent, read a history book about your fucking history pal, rather than spewing your ignorant take on the facts, put down that bottle of five star 'ignorance' you so glibly drink from, cross swords with me sunshine I'll sentence you to 20 years in the library you so plainly have never entered.
If I don't get more green than this fuck I'm out of ZH you decide do we take such ignorance or do we applaud the crass ignoramus?.
Wait a second! I thought the right to work southern states created a bastion of high wages and middle class jobs....by offering low wages and low class jobs? It doesn't actually work for the 99.9%? I'm shocked, I gotta lie down.
Bernie 2016.
(But seriously, all you "southern patriots" (white trash)....please, please vote for Scott Walker (or insert Republican (or Hillary) here) and I'm sure your life will get immeasurably better. Haha
Bernie 2016
If I didn't know better, I'd think that you were trying to keep people from considering voting for Sanders. Maybe you are a troll who is doing that, on behalf of Hillary.
Maybe that.... and maybe he is just a dumb fuck based on most of his posts. Maybe both.
I completely endorse Hillary for POTUS 2016.
We'd be getting Huma, the better part of the deal.
Probably not as politically narrow as Val.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign-huma...
Although this story and its thesis are 100 percent true it won't play well with the ZH/Trump crowd.
These retards think the average person in Mississippi (insert southern shit hole here) lives a better life than the average Swede (insert one of the socialist best countries in the world to live here). They live in FANTASY LAND.
BERNIE 2016.
Oh and you Southern Patriots (aka racist white trash), please vote for Scott Walker and think your life is gonna get better because he'll rearm eastern europe, invade iraq....again, and build a wall with Mexico. Hahahahahahahahahah.
Bernie 2016/2020
Please change your name to something without Silver in it. You disgrace a beautiful metal.
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/senatorgrayson
You know it is interesting how when someone wants to avoid admitting to something badly enough, they are completely willing to look past the simplest explanation for what they see.
Maybe race does matter. Maybe genetics matters. Maybe everyone doesn't get a trophy.
Maybe that's OK.
Acknowledging this doesn't make us haters, it doesn't mean we stop fighting injustice, it just means we keep it real.
+1000
We need to acknowledge our differences and accept that some are better at some things and some at others. Different should be celebrated. Allowing the freedom to associate with who we choose is not wrong. Everyone has value. Be proud of who and what you are by accomplishing your potential. "Viva la difference!"
If we didn't value the difference between men and women we would not procreate. Some want us to accept that as how it should be. They aren't concerned with someone being shunned, they simply want power and control.
Fred nails it.
http://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-stra...
My wife and I own a business in the south and of necessity hire low starting wage workers. We constantly struggle to find employees who are willing to actually work. We offer those at the bottom of the income scale a chance at a better life with regular raises, on-going training and education, and treat them with respect. What I have found is that there are many who feel entitled to a paycheck without doing the actual work. You can't help those who refuse to help themselves!
A raised wage and better working environment solves everything. You might just find you get employees more to your liking.
Not saying you do it out of the goodness of your heart, I am saying people will self select.
Ah yes, the poor south where Boeing builds jetliners in Charleston, SC, Airbus will build airplanes in Mobile, Alabama, where Mercedes and BMW build cars along with Asian and other manufacturers. Where the world's premere business jet is built in Savannah, Georgia. How will the south ever survive? I lived in New York City for a while; I would not consider going back to that shithole for less than $400,000 a year, and would probably turn that down.
How they can get this type of statistical manipulation out of Eastern Maine is beyond me.
Pop: 2
and one of them is part Moose.
The only issue that matters here is
"5. Family Structure. Forget race, forget jobs, forget schools, forget churches, forget neighborhoods, and forget the top 1—or maybe 10—percent.Nothing matters more for moving up than who raises you. Or, in econospeak, nothing correlates with upward mobility more than the number of single parents, divorcees, and married couples. The cliché is true: Kids do best in stable, two-parent homes."
Fix a culture that celebrates the "single mother' and many if not most of America's problems disappear in a generation.
The banks remain, but that could be fixed with a working gallows in Zucotti Park.
I have one, very simple question for the Matthew O'Brien of The Atlantic. If things are as bad as you claim in Altanta, Raleigh, Charlotte, or any of a number of southern locales, then why are people from all across the country flooding into such areas in massive numbers? Why are people also fleeing blue state urban areas in equally large numbers?
http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html
the big picture is one of changing demographics..by design.
"JW got the records as part of an investigation into the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) activation of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to deal with the barrage of illegal alien minors last summer. Tens of thousands of Central Americans came into the United States through the Mexican border and contagious diseases—many considered to be eradicated in the U.S.—became a tremendous concern. The CDC, which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responded by opening an emergency facility designed to monitor and coordinate response activities to eminent public health threats."
You got it. Baldwin County, Alabama, on the east shore of Mobile Bay is overrun with transpanted Yankees. They sell their home in New Jersey, buy at least twice the house in Baldwin and have several hundred thou left over for boats, jet skis, extended trips to Europe..whatever. Or they could stay in Chris Christieland and pay taxes.
I started reading the article and then looked at the map. It is much more obviously an east west divide rather than a north south. Author didn't look at his own map I guess. Don't have time to waste reading a bash the south piece of crap article.
Newsflash: The rot is spreading. It is NOT contained.
Interational wage arbitrage and "the american dream" are never going to work together.
Inoticed he left out the influx of millions of illiterate, unskilled, poor illegal invaders.
The criminals in the group are movin' on up.
Honest working stiffs, no matter the cultural background, not so much.
The "American Dream" is not dead, it's just ......................... different.
It used to be that in America, almost anyone could work hard and succeed.
Now the American dream has become, in America almost anyone can not work and get free stuff.
The Land of Opportunity has become the land of entitlement.
The Land of the Free has become, the land of the freebie.
Scumbags who write stories like this assume that somebody living in western North Carolina and have a job and income of 30,000 dollars and living in a small house or trailer are UNHAPPY. Its probably best if we just start ignoring everything that comes out of Boston, New York and DC. Their AMERICAN DREAM isn't real.
This is easily explained by the fact that the southern states are all retard states in terms of average IQ. All of those states are populated by idiots, morons and imbeciles. In fact a perusal of the comments above will show that most of the comments from people living in the south are rife with spelling and grammatical errors. They are poorly educated as well as congenitally stupid.
I just turned 60 last Friday. I am so tired of hearing how u cant make it if you are poor. So tired of hearing our inner city schools don't spend enough money. Here in Obamaville chicago they spend 18 K per student per year. That times 30 students my friends is a cool 540K a year per classroom. Do the math. For 540K you could rent a closed 7-11. Pay a teacher 100K and a janitor partime 30k a year. Computers ,, books, supplies,, utilities another 20 grand. Hmm? What is the graduation rate of our inner city "students?" OH, and where did the other 390K go? Where's Waldo? Just wondering out loud.
The American Dream does not sneak up on you and hit you over the head with a baseball bat. If not here? Where? If not now? When? If not you? Who? Success is where opportunity and hard work meet. At 12 I picked fruit summers in the fields and orchards of west michigan. At 14 i began on the clock jobs during school year,, bag boy at grocery store, 1.60 an hour and then last two years of high school as a cook in a burger joint. Work til 1130 at night and on the school bus at 615 the next morning 4 nights a week. I had summer jobs paying my way ,, every penny, through college. Slaughter house kill floor in a beef slaughter operation. Dipping metal parts in plastic powder after they had been heated to 700 degrees in ovens with conveyor systems that were bigger than your living room. 110 degrees in the plant,, second shift, hottest time of the summer day in a plant like that. Humping drywall working for a building supply company.
Know what? I have worked 48 years of my 60 on this planet. I am a bit tired. You want a good life? Work for it. Strap it on. Forget your skin color. Forget if mamma gave you enough baths before betime when u were a little tyke. Forget daddy got drunk and knocked u around a bit. Grow a fucking pair of balls or whatever women have to grow. Shut the fuck up and work your ass off. Think it is better elsewhere? Then fucking move. Or shut the fuck up. I hear Cuba is opening soon. I cant wait to see the boat people in Miami climbing on rickety boats to risk their lives to move there.
Does this country have problems? Yup. When the lights go out on USA, and they may well do that. Then, where you moving? good holiday weekend to all. Sorry for the rant.
Nice rant. You sir, are a real man. Have a good holiday!
Yours let this happen you are the problem , you created this shit and have no idea. I bet you voted for 2 generations of Daily. By the way that movie sucked and the Nam was a looser on so many levels I lost count.
Work. Work is the secret. If you are willing to work 110 hours a week, you can have a chance at getting wealthy.
The real question left out of all of this is, what is WEALTH.
My wealth is my home life, my wife. I don't want endless hours at work, I don't want mountains of money. I want TIME. Time to do what I want, time to dote on my Gail, time watch the summers in Alaska go by and admire the beauty. Those are my priorities.
All the money I want is just enough to make the above happen. Past that, I do not care about money.
It does not bother you that someone else has to work to pay for your EBT card and handouts?
What EBT card? What handouts? Are you stupid?
It's more about savings, and living within ones means.
I agree with most of what you said, except fuck that "holiday weekend" shit.
Happy Independence Day, to all of y'all.
Tattoo work brings about 1/10th less in NC from NH. The roads are way worse, it is economically down. On the plus, there isn't the drug problem of NE and everyone wants Jesus tattoos.
I'm glad to see this article. Where I live (the south) we still have these dismal looking low income housing projects built in the 40s, 50s and 60s that take up huge chunks of real estate and look like something from East Germany during the height of Soviet power. They are homes to families and children but are also infested with drugs, crime and ganges. If you grow up there it is likely you will stay there. Very little upward mobility as the demand for these apartments is huge. In one section of town they tore them down and replaced them with modern homes and apartment buildings. The difference is scandalous, but the will to replace them all is just not present.
I don't see how anyone can drive by these slums and claim that the south has made progress in race relations in the last 30-40 years. At least not economically and socially. There are no whites living in these projects because they are a vestige of segregation. Yes, they put a roof over someone's head, but if they have very little statistical chance of moving out and up then that is all it does.
Not saying America doesn't have issues, but Steve Sailer already debunked this bullshit data (which is being massaged by Hillary's pet indian savant). Just look at eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. I've been all through there, and to say it has high rates of mobility is fucking retarded. But hey, it's all white people so it must be fine there - and we can safely ignore it and lavish our attention on all those unfortunate darkies.
The one remaining export of the USSA is queer porno. In todays Amerika , If you are willng to suck enough dicks you too can be sucessful, you might even become the first black president if you have a big fake smile and suck real good.
We continue to confuse race with culture. The African American culture is what is keeping them down, not thier race. A culture of out of wed lock children, a disdain for education, a disdain for the enviroment and an avoidance of working for the man.
You see the same cultural problems in other nations, from the Caribbean Islands to England, to Italy.
It is not racial or genetic, since there are many great black thinkers, business owners and hard working individuals who have pulled themsleves up out of that culture. One that comes to mind is Dr. Ben Carson. Unfortunately the majority wallow in it, and popular culture idoizes it.
There are also many white and hispanic Americans now beginning to follow in the footsteps of the African culture. The left has won this war.
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This article is echoing (in the sense of conditional messaging) the recent SCOTUS ruling and Obama admin (the system) position that a form of racism exists when Section 8 housing and its occupants are not located in and among their betters.
Geographic racism.
Cultural immolation.
Intentional actions.
I think it's disingenuous to calculate based on moving from the bottom quintile to the top quintile. We should instead calculate instead the rate of moving up only one quintile.
Of course for every one person moving up, another moves down. Question is: how far down? And is it really so bad to move from the top into 2nd place? Are you really starving at that point?
I'd also like to point out there's a huge difference between someone in the top 10% and some at 20% And perhaps a smaller though more difficult difference between someone at the 80% mark versus someone at the 95% mark. I'll also show you a difference in lifestyle choices and, likely, in personal morality too.
The article ends with a summary, "Fixing that isn't just about redistribution. It's about building denser cities, so the poor aren't so segregated." Denser cities is Agenda 21 speak. Pack 'em in is easier to control them. What bullshit! People need the jobs that were sent over seas. What bullshit! This article is fucking bullshit!
Exactly, with the Internet you can live and work anywhere, a beach town in Cali, an old mining town in Colorado, or a small college town in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley for me. I have worked out of my home for 22 years, the last nine for a company based in Florida (where I would never move to). Denser ciities my ass; somebody has an agenda alright.
This is the drive for white guilt.
The purpose of this article is to promote integration and racial equivalence. It uses diversity strategy by minimizing race and promoting environment in order to substitute cultural pluralism as the model for Western societies. In short, race doesn’t matter; only environment matters in human differences.
The idea is to say that it wasn’t the fault of the Gentle Giant in Ferguson, it wasn’t the Gentle Giant who was at fault; it was his environment. It was the fault of white America.
It is the strategy of German-Jewish immigrant Franz Boas (1858-1942) who almost single-handedly established the current contours of modern anthropology. Boas' idea was to rid anthropology of all biological explanations for differences in human culture or behavior.
According to the book The Culture of Critique, Boas was “deeply alienated from and hostile toward gentile culture.” As a Jew, his primary concern was with anti-Semitism and a Christian society, with making America a safe environment for Jewish group power.
Fundamental to this transformation of the United States into a multicultural society was massive non-European immigration, coupled with a decline of ethnic consciousness among its European peoples.
“The basic idea is that European groups are highly vulnerable to invasion by strongly collectivist, ethnocentric groups because individualists have less powerful defenses against such groups.”
According to Prof. Kevin MacDonald: By 1915, Boas and his students controlled the American Anthropological Association and by 1926 they headed every major American university anthropology department. From this position of dominance they promoted the idea that race and biology are trivial matters, and that environment counts for everything. They completely recast anthropology so as to provide intellectual support for open immigration, integration, and miscegenation. They also laid the foundation for the idea that because all races have the same potential, the failures of non-whites must be blamed exclusively on white oppression. The ultimate conclusion of Boasian anthropology was that since environment accounts for all human differences, every inequality in achievement can be eliminated by changing the environment. This has been the justification for enormous and wasteful government intervention programs.
And last week the Supreme Court summarized it all with its same-sex marriage decision, taking on the most successful culture in the history of the world, a white, Protestant-founded America with its moral values, family structures and individual freedoms.
Yeah, yeah, JR, we get it: It's all about the Jews. They're responsible for everything evil. Synaguoge of Satan and all that. So, whenever anyone Jewish contributes anything to society be it morailty (Old Testament anyone?), science, art, or gasp even finance, it's all a big plot to undermine civilization, especially Christian society.
And just how do you define "the most successful culture in the history of the world?" Those who practice Judaism seem to have been quite successful with their culture of family, education and hard work in spite of the fact they've been getting whacked for the better part of a couple of thousand years.
I don't personally know any Jewish oligarchs, only regular folk who happen to practice Judaism trying to make a life for themselves with the same problems and human frailities just like everyone else, so perhaps you can empathize a little bit with me if I disparage your constant harangues regarding "Da Joos."
And I'll take this moment to thank all of the down-voters in advance. :-)
They should have picked their own damn cotton.
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: That's What I Like about the South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37xnM3VYH0
I'm an apostate Mr frosty google it. I know you have to. Your agenda is ignorance coupled with fear. Fear of the truth that blights your thinking along with anyone that gave you a green they show their fear of the history that the country you call home was stolen pure and simple. You and all who gave you a green denigrate honesty as do your fucks that rule you!.
I bow out of the ZH forum . democracy has spoken the ignorant rule. Thank you Tyler for the opportunity To cast my musings. Alas if Mr frost can garner more support than logic dictates I'll take my opinion elsewhere.
Am I correct in perceiving that the answer to the lede question is essentially, "Niggers!"?