Brad DeLong and Kathy G. both recommend Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog. I concur, but at the same time would also recommend his great piece on Bill Cosby in the current Atlantic.
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10 May 2008 02:55 pm
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Well, that was a productive post.
I spent eight years in Federal prison with black ghetto inmates, and I probably don't dislike blacks as much as Del does.
As a Transhumanist I don't much like humans in general, and so it isn't worth my while to dislike any specific group more than any other, whether that be blacks, Jews or anybody else.
I can dislike ghetto thugs as much as I dislike barrio thugs and rural white rednecks and urban white punks, which are the four main groups making up the prison population in this country. That says nothing about blacks, whites, or Hispanics in general - although the social conditions that breed such thugs says much about humans and the state in general and this country in particular.
Thanks for the recommendation on the Cosby article. It's good reading.
A slight clarification of fact from the article: Cosby did not earn a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He had an Ed.D. bestowed upon him, largely to capture a stream of future donations from him. So please, whatever else Mr. Cosby has achieved, a Ph.D. is no one of those achievements.
MY: " I concur, but at the same time would also recommend his great piece on Bill Cosby in the current Atlantic."
Nitpicking: Shouldn't the conjunction be "and?"
Teabow, you're new here. Matt was lucky to spell "blog" properly.
Asking him to do proper grammar is WAY past his Harvard philosophy degree.
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That was an interesting article about Cosby. I'd like to see him return to his native Phila and address the problem of black men murdering police officers as 3 have been killed within 24 months.
The dead officers names are Skerski, Cassidy, and Liczbinski.
There was no mention in Coates' article about black on white crime. The media won't touch it, not even when 2 co-eds were murdered within days of each other at UNC-Chapel Hill or Auburn U. I guess the murders of two female students is not as sexy a story as a gang-rape at Duke, too much "dog bites man."
Whitey must retreat to the exurbs or a few exclusive redoubts in the cities to feel a modicum of safety. Not even armed police are safe in Philadelphia, including my cousin, murdered for less than $40.00 in broad daylight in the city of brotherly love.
Posted by del | May 10, 2008 6:56 PM