Did Times Select Make America Smarter?

Two New York Times items in the news today, Thomas L. Friedman tells us 9/11 is Over and the attack made us stupid. Crittenden responds to that bit of nonsense here. At the same time, in Jena, O. J. and the Jailing of Black America, Orlando Patterson does slightly better in at least acknowledging that many of the issues in urban-Black America are problems with urban-American Blacks, that is until he gets to the cause and solution.

As is always the case with Liberals, it's money that they love and more of it to support failing institutions and fund destructive behavior that they crave. Apparently in his view, young single mothers shouldn't need to be concerned with something as irrelevant as work and the notoriously corrupt and failed inner school systems run by liberal Democrats simply don't have enough money to siphon off in political perks. Patterson falls way short of informing us of how simply throwing more money into a failed system is somehow going to finally improve it, despite millions and millions of wasted dollars and years of trying. He simply can't bring himself to point his finger of judgment at people who trap themselves in dysfunctional systems by believing the lie that more subsidization will somehow help. In his view family values begins and ends in DC, not the home or the neighborhood.

I think I preferred it when much of the New York Times was walled off behind the failed Times Select firewall. And I'd wager it made America smarter, too. I think we'd all be better off if they plopped the whole liberal rag back behind it, but then the Times would probably discover the right for a business to make money in the Constitution and start lobbying for a government grant to survive.

The circumstances that far too many African-Americans face — the lack of paternal support and discipline; the requirement that single mothers work regardless of the effect on their children’s care; the hypocritical refusal of conservative politicians to put their money where their mouths are on family values; the recourse by male youths to gangs as parental substitutes; the ghetto-fabulous culture of the streets; the lack of skills among black men for the jobs and pay they want; the hypersegregation of blacks into impoverished inner-city neighborhoods — all interact perversely with the prison system that simply makes hardened criminals of nonviolent drug offenders and spits out angry men who are unemployable, unreformable and unmarriageable, closing the vicious circle.

Comments

[bill-tb]

Keeping morons in a walled garden for their own safety is the best way. Personally, I don't care what morons have to say. I read the WSJ.

[Fred Beloit]

WSJ will be so happy that a bigot gave them a plug.

[Donald Douglas]

Actually, Patterson did a helluva lot better. That was an awesome piece!

[michael i]

I have a solution for "the lack of paternal support and discipline; the requirement that single mothers work regardless of the effect on their children’s care". Let's start insisting that custody of children spawned out of wedlock be assigned to the fathers. Those children would receive that valuable paternal support and putting those single mothers to work would no longer have an adverse effect on the children's care.