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William Otis's avatar

Racial preferences are good for America the same way that arsenic is good for your cocktail.

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DAVID DEMILO's avatar

To say that the solution to academic or professional underachievement or disproportionate criminality among any class of people lies in family and education is not being republican. It is applying hundreds of years of historical experience and common sense, and it is an argument that has many black and Hispanic and Asian-American advocates.

Every wave of immigration brought to this country ethnic groups who were discriminated against, who underachieved, who committed crimes disproportionate to the general population. Their assimilation took generations and was not imposed by law. It was achieved by will, encouraged by the culture, and supported by the law.

True, they were not enslaved when they came here. But as Jason Riley points out in "Stop Helping Us", divorce and out of wedlock births soared after the Great Society reforms were introduced. They have soared among whites, too. He argues persuasively that it was family and education drove black achievement since slavery, and that has suffered most since the Great Society.

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