Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America?

Ok. Elect me to public office and pay me Kim Davis' salary, and I'll help to actually "fix" the problem.

Until then, I'm just an insignificant fleeb shooting the shit on a message board in my spare time.

The problem will not be "fixed" no matter how many times Dick posts on this thread.

 

I understand we probably won't fix the problem here, but it's a discussion worth having, and needs to be had on a national level if the problem is ever going to be fixed.

And, the conversation has to go beyond "slavery" and "lack of value for education".

 

Except any attempt at national dialogue is derailed by race-baiters like Dick/YF or the elementary hypothesis spouters like Spee-D-Itcher here.

As someone else said, there are people who benefit from racial conflict. They want it to continue.

 

If you consider anything that Dick or I has said to be race baiting, then I'm not sure what conversation about race you'd be capable of having.

If you want to solve problems, you have to identify problems, and the sources of the problems.

 

And we see again why national dialogue fails.

 

Come on, guys, why can't we have a serious debate on this issue?

 

You're going to have to expand on this thought if I'm going to even take offense.

 

Sheesh, someone else with the "why" bit. This place used to be cool.

 

I think people are missing Dick's larger point.

Are things like "they don't value education" or "the breakdown of the African-American family" causes of the problems in the African-American community, or related symptoms, that share a common cause we haven't addressed?

 

You may want to make it a super complex issue, tiny mutt, but often the elementary hypotheses are correct.