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Linda Chavez Calls Out Eric Holder

Yesterday I blogged about the  reprobate Eric Holder calling the United States a “nation of cowards [1].”   Today Linda Chavez both takes up Holder’s challenge to discuss race in America and returns Holder’s favor, by calling him a coward,  Commentary [2]

Eric Holder could have talked about the relationship between family breakdown and crime. He could have talked about why it is that young black men aged 14-24 represent only 1 percent of the U.S. population but committed almost 28 percent of the nation’s homicides in 2005, according to his own department’s statistics. He could have talked about what it means to have fatherless teenage boys grow up in neighborhoods where your chances of being killed are greater than they were on the streets of Baghdad at the height of the insurgency. He could have talked about why it is that schools systems presided over by black superintendents in cities governed by black elected officials produce black high-school graduates who read at the eighth-grade level. He could have talked about why it is that illegal Mexican immigrants with a sixth grade education are more likely to be employed in a steady job than young black men with a high-school education.

Now that would have taken some courage

Personally I don’t  attribute the entire black socioeconomic disparity to a pathologically defective black culture, just most of it.    Blacks are saddled with a culture that does not imbrue them with sufficient human capital [3].   Note that the only black ever to elected President was largely raised by his white grandparents.