re: Whats up with all the race stuff?

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Owl is a well-known poster and has a sense of humor and it was very much in jest. Now who’s being too sensitive?

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Business ethics.

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Well, I've never owned a business. I've only been a W-2 worker. Once I was a 1099 when I was consulting, but that was a short engagement when I was an instructor.

When I got my MBA we studied business ethics. A few weeks ago I completed an ethics seminar for continuing education credits to maintain my professional license. What about business ethics?

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The real issue is that the black community at every turn avoids responsibility and accountability for the violent members of said community

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Whats up with all the race stuff? Get offline and see the real world isn't all doom and gloom. A race war isn't gonna happen

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Wow. You went to New York? Good for you! How accomplished! Fun tip next time you go, don’t refer to it as NYC. Or to someone who lives there as a “local New Yorker”.

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“I find it annoying that I have to make what I consider commonsensical points that others deem controversial, to say, ‘No, police are not a bigger problem than the criminals.’ This is something that’ll get your head handed to you today to say,” he declares.

“ ‘Black kids should spend more time studying and less time playing video games, and that will go a long way toward closing the achievement gap in schools’ is a very controversial thing to say.”

“There was so much doomsaying up to the decision on how the black middle class would be impacted if the court banned racial preferences. And the argument seemed to be that racial preferences had created the black middle class, and so blacks would be devastated if these policies go away. And I wanted to say that is not what the historical record shows,” he says.

“This idea that black advancement in this country is contingent on special treatment, set-asides, quotas and what have you is just something not supported by the facts,” he adds.

“What really prompted the book is to respond to this sky-is-falling-argument I was hearing about the court case and what could happen if the justices rule the way they ultimately did.”

‘Before DEI programs’

Riley rattles off statistics:

“Between 1940 and 1960, the black poverty rate in this country fell from 87% to 47%. Nineteen-sixty is not only before any affirmative-action starting. It’s during Jim Crow. It’s before any major civil-rights acts of the ’60s had passed,” he says, with some incredulity.

“It’s before DEI programs.”

… “Whether it’s black educational attainment, poverty reduction, blacks entering middle-class professions, black crime rate and involvement with the criminal-justice system, all of these trends were moving in a positive direction at a faster rate in the decades prior to the implementation of affirmative-action policy,” he notes.

“When the policy objective has been colorblindness or equal treatment, blacks have made much greater strides than when the policy objective has been reverse discrimination.”

Another theme of the book, in Riley’s succinct words: “Culture does matter.”

“One of the problems with a lot of people on the left who write about these issues, and particularly among civil-rights advocates in that crowd, is not wanting to talk about cultural differences, behavioral differences and so forth and also not wanting to talk about a very real problem in poor black communities, which is that the behaviors and attitudes that are conducive to upward mobility are demeaned and derided as acting white.”

“So the black kid who is studious, who does spend a lot of time studying, who raises his hand in class gets mocked by fellow blacks who accuse him of acting white,” he says.

“There was a time in black America where that was unheard of, and I think it’s one of the reasons that you saw those black gains in the first two-thirds of the 20th century — because there was an emphasis from the black leadership on down, Martin Luther King on down, that were obsessed with how black people carried themselves, how they comported themselves, schooling speech and so forth.”

“Staying out of trouble with the law, not giving white racists any excuses, that was part of the goal, but also that, just for its own sake, these behaviors were conducive to upward mobility. And that has been lost in the post-’60s era, and now you have a lot of black writers and thinkers and politicians and media folks who don’t believe that black behavior should be any part of the discussion.”

“This celebration of antisocial behavior that you get from the hip-hop world and the rap world and so forth, don’t talk to us about that until you get rid of white racism in this country, that’s the problem, not this behavior.”

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Pick a topic. Education. Money. Travel. Chances are that I've done more and got more than you.

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When I got my MBA

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