re: LSU Law Professor writes article for NYT

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Has it ever occurred to you that the lack of personal responsibility plays a role regarding the institutional factors?

Whether right or wrong, it does.

By marginalizing personal responsibility to the extent its role is negligible, he refuses to have an honest conversation as to the root causes the problems that are facing north of Baton Rouge.

It is clear we will never interpret that paragraph I quoted earlier the same way. However, I'm willing to bet the house that the New York Times would not have published his opinion if they read it the same way as you. This is a wedge piece. If you can't see that, so be it.

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Do you know how many of those people lack reliable or even any transportation and rely on friends, neighbors, and whoever to hitch a ride?

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LBJ's and his like-minded followers policies have almost created a pet class. My pets rely on me for food, drink, shelter, and rides to the vet. The big difference is that we do not reward pets for bad behavior.

The downward spiral is real. In the end, much will be said and nothing will be done. Stopping the insane inertia is seen as anti progress.

I think in context, Professor Tyson purposefully downplays the importance of individual choices and responsibility, but the reality of it is that he isn't altogether wrong, just as Bogani and McLane are saying.

More than anything, though, it is the cultural paradigm shift that has occurred in black American culture over the past fifty years, moving almost entirely away from two parent households that function independently to single parent households that function communally, that appears to be the root cause of most of the issues in black America today.

Communal rearing binds the individual to the community in far more dramatic ways so that, even if a child of promise manages to excel in education or otherwise, that child's desire to free himself from the community is near zero, despite that being in his best interest. The result is that the best and brightest, already too far behind their other counterparts in reading and math due to lack of parental involvement in early childhood education (see: single parent households), have very little hope of ever leaving the impoverished urban areas so frequently populated by black Americans.

This is a systemic problem not in the government or in the private sector, but in the family system and culture of modern black America. And this problem is far, far more difficult to root out than a policy shift or police education.

It is human nature for police to be afraid for their lives when they enter high crime areas where shootings are more common. The work that needs to be done is turning those areas into low crime areas, which comes with education, higher income and better prospects for success and financial security. To achieve this, certainly there must be a level of individual sense of drive and focus, as well as, perhaps, some policy changes to assist, but it largely comes down to a shift in the mentality of the black American culture and society to rise above the low expectations set for and by them, and to place a higher value on education and independence. There is no reason black Americans should not achieve at the levels of Asian and Middle Eastern Americans.

It’s a very American story of how black people have systematically been denied the opportunity to live in safe and stable neighborhoods. No amount of “individual responsibility” or “bootstrapping” will ever change that.

How is Concord Estates these days, once had friends that lived there, it is in South BR, at the time it seemed like the residents were about 90% black working professionals. Every one of them would probably tell you that individual responsibility was a factor in them not living in North BR.

Affirmative action?

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LSU is getting dangerously close to Mizzou level.

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We tried to tell you that it was only a matter of time before every university got infected with the dumb arse but you wouldn't listen

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LSU Law Professor writes article for NYT
Is he related to the former federal judge Ralph Tyson?

That would certainly explain the borderline retardation.

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Judge Tysons son. The Judge is doing barrel rolls in his grave.

i got to the line about "picked his pocket" and realized the author was a frick-tard. a law professor ought to have at least a passing knowledge of law and law enforcement. instead he's a frick-tard.