Zim: "Black America should have began addressing this problem decades ago."
I WOULD agree with you -- except, as Charlie Munger famously said: "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome,"
The current system heavily rewards "victims" for perpetuating the systems which produce victims. If those incentives are removed, behaviors will adapt. It may take a few generations, but along the way the people who have been trapped by the Demonrat Party, with their perverse incentive structures and endless brainwashing feedback loops.
("My problems, including inability to speak without a ghetto accent, are not under my control. I have no choice -- everything is caused by someone else...and if I claim that, and keep my ignorance and victimhood intact, I will get a special job with special exceptions carved out for me.")
We won't know for a while. And there likely will be things which arise to twist the variables in the equation.
But you cannot change a system, in any regard, without changing the behavior of the people in the system. For instance: What do you think would happen if people were rewarded ONLY for getting married, staying married, and having successful children? Maybe for going to church each Sunday? Maybe for exercising and eating clean food? Etc. All of those changes in incentive (or removal of disabling incentives which reward the status quo) would shape behavior...of individuals and of groups in new directiions.
There are plenty of honorable, highly skilled, highly productive people of every race, color, and creed in our country. And they pretty much all have one thing in commmon: they didn't drink the kool aide.
We know one thing: the CURRENT system of incentives makes people, groups, and cultures mentally physically, and spiritually SICK. We can hardly do worse than what we have done.
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