Glenn Loury: "We're Playing With Fire" - BLM, Race & Policing 

It’s not right to stereotype blacks as criminals. So let’s stereotype all cops as racist!

you should get on thomas sowell

@@rudipluchino4090 and Shelby Steele & David... etc etc. Yeah tho it’s sowell who’s likely the brightest of them all and who was talking reason in the 70’s and he was seemingly alone among black folks

@@ransakreject5221 huh?

@@TheWhitehiker I said ALONE AMOUNG BLACKS FOLKS!!

I think the moralists of the Left consider working people in the advanced nations to have more than their fair share compared to the people in poorer nations and they don't see a need to help them.

@Morgan Allen certain people have discriminated against neuro diverse white women for years because they feel threatened by our intelligence

@Morgan Allen double whammy of Aspergers and Inattentive ADHD combined the first condition diagnosed at 23 the latter at 40 has had a huge influence on not reaching full potential because of inherent discrimination

Nice comment. Reminds me of MLK.

Naive tautology. Fairness and unfairness are loaded terms. If half my paycheck is accidentally given to a co-worker, then the next pay round, the same amount can be transferred from her to me.

I see there is no shortage of Racoons in the U.S

They don’t want fairness. This is a power struggle and racism is just a smokescreen to manipulate the masses.

It’s really that simple.

Fundamental. Look after our babies intensely for the first year. But that is too difficult to address en masse. Only individually.

That opens another can of worms such as feminism...which was exploited by the taxman to double the workforce...drive down wages...and put children in cages...um I mean day care.

As Candace says, the biggest problem and cause of African American inequality is sole parent ie fatherless ‘families’

From "The Boy Crisis" by Dr. Warren Farrell, available on Amazon: "85% of men in American prisons had no dad at home. This is true for both black and white inmates." Comment: this is about fatherless, not race. Take dad out of the home and you get a social disaster. Guess what BLM is about? Taking dad out of the home, replacing him with welfare.

@Ldy Della Hi again! You're a smart lady. Might be interested in this opinion on Black Lives Matter, from a science based point of view: Using an Evolutionary Lens, to understand what is happening to black men and crime: In evolution the male role is the protector/provider in humans. There is a biological deal between the genders: He wants sex from the female, he wants companionship and children. On her half of the equation, she wants sex, she gets to pick who she has sex with, who she has children with, she wants resources and much of her choice in men, come's down to their utility, as resource providers. That's the basic biological compact between men and women. ...then we gave women the vote What women voting leads to, is women voting for resources, via the government, as a Surrogate Husband. The Progressives and Democrats took to this, like ducks to water. Republicans do this too, just not as much. Both reduce the necessity for women, to have a man around. The Democrats make this central to their politics. What that leads to is the replacement of mostly black men as providers of resources, for their women. Suddenly he is worth nothing to her. He is worthless. That's what happened to black men. They were replaced by the government. I don't blame black women for supporting this. Like white women, they are wired to acquire resources from men. We need to understand this, to get our social policy right. When we men let women vote, their feminine resource acquisition instinct kicks in, they are wired that way, they vote in resources. Then the black men were degraded, made valueless by their own women. This leads to community failure, family failure, sons failing. What happened in the black community is not a as much a racial thing, as it is a gender thing, best understood in terms of female nature, male nature and evolution. Then we can peel back the layers to see why it failed miserably: It went against evolutionary norms. It broke the basic biological compact between men and women. Black Lives Matter is a feminist organization. Their principles are based on feminism. They say so overtly. Background: In the '60s feminists changed the financial rules. Black women got more money, if the father of the children was not in the home. Then: Women had no reason to keep men around. Consequence: Female headed households went from 20% of black households in the 1960s, to 80% of black households. Black children...or white children, especially boys, don't do well without dad around. Race is not the real issue. Dads are. Dr. Warren Farrell wrote "The Boy Crisis", he has the stats in his book: 85% of men in prison, both black or white men, come from fatherless homes. Black Lives Matter is a feminist organization. It believes in kicking black men out of the home. The result is, black communities were slowly destroyed by white progressives and communists and mostly white feminists. We never saw that coming because feminists are well intentioned. They are just WRONG. Feminism is an offshoot of communism. It's communism, in high heels. Doesn't work. No wonder it turned out so bad for black Americans. Feminism is based on degrading men, taking away their power. This destroys the evolutionary usefulness of black men, and their sense of responsibility. Black Lives Matter says as it's goal, it will destroy the nuclear family. No thanks. I can't support that. The answer to all this is to empower black men. Thanks for listening...cheers!

@Ldy Della The problem is complicated. Giving women the vote leads to consequences I laid out. We need to understand what those patterns and consequences are, in order for sensible policies to emerge. It should not be about blaming women, or blaming women voting. It should be about understanding that humans have innate tendencies that lead to consequences. The same can be said about patterns within male voting as well. There are lots of potential problems from males voting. I think we are actually in agreement on this. Your first paragraph is exactly right. Perfect. Your second paragraph has the correct conclusion: the Legal System needs to change. As to traditional roles, that's a long conversation. Some things from traditional roles can change, for sure. They'd be better off changing. Some aspects of traditional roles worked better, the older ways. There may even be racial and ethnicity variations in what works. My guess is much of what worked in a European based Christian culture, would maybe not work as well for people with roots in Africa. Hell, they don't even work for most white people anymore. There are lots of workable solutions, I'm pretty pragmatic and open minded. Lots of different patterns work. Others don't. You nailed it in your last sentence: Black men & women are failing their kids by raising them without influences by both sexes. Exactly. What got left out for decades, was the role of black males. That's key.

@Ldy Della Well said: Fair enough. Cheers! :D

@@TimBitts649 wow - do you SERIOUSLY believe women shouldn’t vote????

Teacher's unions are the new mafia.

Absolutely correct. Private sector unions aren't a problem. It's when government employees get unionized like in California and they set their wages and pensions without negotiating with the employer which would be the taxpayers of the state of California. Their wages and pensions dwarfed the private sector and caused a seven billion dollar pension deficit. All of which we the tax payers had to pay back with increased taxes. No union should be allowed to negotiate a contract or benefits without the person paying for it allowed at the table. It's all about kickbacks and corruption.

@@jp-sx1rh - Using another man’s ideas - a man who shares your initials - maybe the issue is that all hierarchies tend toward corruption (corporations, governments,...and unions).

Bloggingheads tv is his channel. It’s great

Hahaha

True I was just thinking of my immediate family members. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. To try and make it an equal playing field would be pretty much impossible. Good luck doing that with entire races of people

I said the same thing for years. Well meaning liberals look at racial groups rather than individuals. It's like if you had, say 3 houses on a block. A white family lives in one house. A black family in the next, and a Hispanic family in the last. A leftie will only see the race of the people living in the home and assume things about them as a group living in a house. They assume because they lived in the same house, they must share the same world viewpoints due to shared experiences. It sounds logical but we know in reality that is not the case. Go INSIDE the home and go to the dinner table. Each INDIVIDUAL has wildly different viewpoints at the table. The father could be conservative, mother is liberal, son could be far left, and daughter could be neutral. That doesn't even account for how age affects views on some topics and how political leanings can shift from topic to topic.

All you are spewing ,Is empty rhetoric. Trying to justify your bigotry. You guys are just spineless , soulless, defensive cowards. If you refuse to do anything or see the disparities, then give up reparations (which is owed in the trillions) . then see who gets where in life. Having a 300 year head start and pretending it never happened, doesn't make you smart or deserving, it makes you a bitch

@@battlecat3792 are you for real?

Lol

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But he's Glenn Loury!

No, that’s not right, it’s consenting kitten,

And European.

Correct

The laws in the South formerly defined anyone with any degree of black African ancestry as "black" (in the modern sense)-the "one drop rule" referring to a single black ancestors blood in one's veins-and that was carried over into our modern terminology when the term "African American" was invented to replace then then increasingly negative implication that was being given to "negro." The term African American kept the same implication as "negro" had. Kamala Harris, through her Jamaican heritage, identifies a part of her ancestry as of black African origin. The term "African American" traditionally would include her on that basis, despite her ancestors having been imported to Jamaica (and very likely enslaved there) rather than arising from one or more slave families who were forced to work in the United States.

You choose the identity that's most politically expedient if there's any ambiguity

Her Jamaican ancestors made money in that trafficking business. Doesn't that count?

Yes I agree, what exactly is black history month, would the genocide in Rwanda be part of it?

Agree.

I never actually thought of it that way.

I believe the only purpose is to push hate for non blacks and their history.

we have black history month for the same reason the Christians have lent --- our calendar is demarcated by our religious beliefs and the ritual of acting them out it's creepy that white cosmopolitan progressives are so obsessed with one minority skin color, but what are you going to do 🤷 change the dominant religion and you'll change black history month, otherwise it's going to be defended zealously by its adherents

I dont like michael malice

They are all great thinkers.

@@cluckycluck3053 Why? What don’t you like about him?

There are enough interviews of those. I say more like this guest, interesting and courageous voices who don't get as much exposure.

That was amazing! And, I think I commented there, as much.

Great comment -- that was really well put! Couldn't agree more.

Why would he get flak for having Lindsey on? I’m not familiar with Lindsey

@@billsimms2511 Lindsey has lately been on the outs w/ many progressives, some have called him out on his Twitter posts including his co-author, Helen Pluckrose. Also, he voted for DJT, and John Mcwhorter is very sour on DJT.

@@billsimms2511 Lindsey is amazing, &!I think he gave GL a lot to think abt.

Not a Christian, but I think your underlying sentiment makes sense. It's the difference between someone who gets liposuction to lose weight and someone who works out and diets; there's a critical difference in the attitude, the sincerity, and so on, I think, in which the former (liposuction) _maintains_ your original self and offers no real, or at least not _as_ real, dedication to change, whereas the latter molds yourself into the kind of person who is fit and will likely stay fit, both physically and mentally. I truly think poverty is related at the root level, where sometimes poverty becomes a mental attitude rather than a real environmental or economic limitation (i.e., the economics of your situation aren't limiting you from getting out of poverty), while still of course acknowledging those factors as well.

I believe he WAS a Christian at one time. Then, a very humble sweet woman passed away (from illness?) a couple of decades ago (?), and her mother (?) made a pacifying comment on her passing that set him wrong and he abandoned his faith. I hoped it explained it correctly; that’s how “I” remember it.

Christianity was omnipresent in the era of slavery. The post is a sales pitch

Yes but even he doesn’t really have an answer for what’s currently going on. He wants what I want which is to stop identifying everything by race but that is not happening and in fact will only get worse with today’s leaders

A guy named Eric July says it best and I’ve just adopted it when it comes to fake accusations (The Smollets, AOCs, Tyrann Mattheus and the likes), labeling things that have nothing to do with race by race and making them good or bad based on that and people like white people apologizing for the color of their skin for things they did not do... “They’re @#$&ing losers.” They just plain are.

Tell Meghan

To add to your point I have offical sale documents of my ancestors being bought by someone. Should my family get repercussion. FYI I'm Irish and Scottish.

Also, what about immigrants who came in after abolition? Are they required to pay? What if you're half-recent immigrant and half-family around since the Mayflower? Do we each need a family tree to decide what's fair? Or is fair irrelevant?

@@Etrikkin Exactly. It’s a mute point. Of course people are only minorities if they have the right ideologies and/or stay the bottom of the barrel. Asians, Indians (from India) and a handful of others are not considered minorities in many places in America and there are places they don’t even have check boxes to identify ethnicity.

Boys can do what they want when there is no father present to enforce boundaries. Mothers, through no fault of their own, make lousy fathers. Check out Warren Farrell. Also his research findings that if one divorced parent is to have sole custody, all outcomes for children especially boys and including daughters are better, if that sole parent is the father.