Mr.Guy
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Thanks for sharing the book Meth, I ordered a copy . I look forward to reading it.Of the two of us, I'M confused?
Read what you've been writing in this thread about Jay Z. It's a rambling maze of contradictions.
Again, that's a different topic. The tangent we're discussing with respect to the NAACP office bombing has to do with racial profiling. In other words, there's this school of thought that racism isn't a big deal in 2015 and most contemporary racial inequality is somehow "self-inflicted," if that's where you're going with the "educational values" argument, I'd be very disappointed.
Listen, when Irish and Italian immigrants first arrived in the United States, their values were ridiculed and blamed for their relative inability to gain traction. In fact, "ethnic Whites", as they're sometimes called, were second class citizens.
In fact, there's a whole chapter in Steinberg's book that compares the myth of Jewish intellectualism with the myth of Catholic anti-intellectualism.
Before someone calls Steinberg "self-hating" for attacking the myth of Jewish intellectualism, it's important to remember that "second-wave" Jewish immigrants were subjected to quotas and denied entrance to higher education. This, obviously, was a form of discrimination - but what's particularly instructive is to examine its timing. In other words, "first wave" Jewish immigrants were not subjected to these quotas - and were not alleged to have any special cultural values effectively favoring education.
So, what made the difference?
Read the book. I promise you it's worth it.