Article 1: Black Rednecks and white liberals
Misconception: Black ghetto culture is a uniquely black identity.
Arguments:
- Scotch-Irish Immigrants brought their primitive cultural tendencies overseas from North Briton
- The language, behaviors, and values found in ghetto black communities stem from the white redneck culture of the Deep South, which slaves were exposed to for hundreds of years before migrating to the inner cities.
-Black underachievement is due to this ghetto culture; it is not due to racism or slavery (Great Migration as proof)
-African Americans were on the rise economically and socially until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - then their progress was dramatically reversed.
- By rejecting ghetto culture, African Americans are not giving up their identity, but the self-destructive, counter-productive, and uncivilized behaviors of white crackers and rednecks.
-Liberal politicians who encourage the propagation of this culture for political support are only further degrading the black race.
"By cheering on counterproductive attitudes, making excuses for self-defeating behavior, and promoting the belief that 'racism' accounts for most of blacks' problems, white intellectuals serve their own psychic, ideological, and political interests. They are the kinds of friends who can do more harm than enemies" (57).
Arguments:
- Scotch-Irish Immigrants brought their primitive cultural tendencies overseas from North Briton
- The language, behaviors, and values found in ghetto black communities stem from the white redneck culture of the Deep South, which slaves were exposed to for hundreds of years before migrating to the inner cities.
-Black underachievement is due to this ghetto culture; it is not due to racism or slavery (Great Migration as proof)
-African Americans were on the rise economically and socially until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - then their progress was dramatically reversed.
- By rejecting ghetto culture, African Americans are not giving up their identity, but the self-destructive, counter-productive, and uncivilized behaviors of white crackers and rednecks.
-Liberal politicians who encourage the propagation of this culture for political support are only further degrading the black race.
"By cheering on counterproductive attitudes, making excuses for self-defeating behavior, and promoting the belief that 'racism' accounts for most of blacks' problems, white intellectuals serve their own psychic, ideological, and political interests. They are the kinds of friends who can do more harm than enemies" (57).