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I think the complaint, such as it is, isn't directed primarily at Black men who take advantage of AA, it is at white institutions for instituting AA. The soft version is sociological, oh well this is gonna happen what can you expect with these incentives. The hard version is conspiratorial: The Man saw Martin and Malcolm and the Panthers and got scared of a Black state like Hoffneister dreams of; and their solution for preventing it was affirmative action.
And no Jews live like that primarily because most of them were murdered, and the rest left. I agree that the ghetto was a site of hopelessness, but constraint creates conditions for community. I'm not arguing in favor of discrimination substantively, I'm offering a unique argument for why the Black community suffers these kinds of problems. And one reason is that the permeable barrier of discrimination draws off its leaders, undermines its families, accentuates dysfunction and steals off its best.
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