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Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, Or Both?
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason Riley joined Brown University’s Glenn Loury to discuss Dr. Loury’s upcoming Manhattan Institute working paper, followed with a panel conversation moderated by Howard Husock.
Despite the tremendous progress made by many African-Americans over the past half-century, the black community continues to experience disproportionate hardship on measures such as poverty, college completion, crime, and out-of-wedlock births. How do we explain today’s disparities in progress for Black America? Are they the products of structural injustices, cultural forces, some synthesis of the two, or other as-yet-unidentified factors?
Panel:
Michael Fortner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Coleman Hughes, Class of 2020, Columbia University
Howard Husock, Vice President for Research & Publications, Manhattan Institute
Ian Rowe, Chief Executive Officer, Public Preparatory Network
Coleman Hughes | Racism & The Wealth Gap
In this segment of "Exploring Minds", Michele Carroll & Coleman Hughes dive deep into the effects that race and culture have on wealth accumulation.
In every country, the biggest cities end up like this in the lowest income areas
Brave New Ireland—How the Island of Saints and Scholars Became a Multicultural Dystopia
https://vdare.com/articles/brave-new-ireland-how-the-island-of-saints-and-scholars-became-a-multicultural-dystopia
Today, as not just Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland itself is pluralist in religion, multicultural in urban areas, and has ceded its sovereignty to the European Union. It is unrecognizable from the country it was 50 years ago. The Catholic Ireland of saints and scholars is a thing of the past. What caused this dramatic change?
The influence of the Catholic Church on the Irish psyche cannot be overstated. The changes in every facet of Irish life are inextricably bound up with the declining role of the Church. As an indication of the Church’s former prominence in Irish society, the influential Archbishop John Charles McQuaid featured in the opening broadcast of the national television station, RTÉ, in 1961. Ironically, this station would become one of the most significant players in bringing about substantial change in Ireland.
Long before the sexual abuse scandals of the 1990s, the church’s influence had already begun to wane. Irish society was greatly affected by the major changes that took place in Catholic teaching as a result of the Second Vatican Council. Though the faithful were assured by Archbishop McQuaid that “No change will worry the tranquility of your Christian lives,” the liberalizing changes slowly but surely undermined the faithful’s allegiance to the Church. Post-Vatican II doctrine became so watered down at parish level that the Church lost its grip on the outlook of the believers.
With the loss of the Church’s influence went the people’s traditional view of how to safeguard their country. It was held in Church teaching up until at least the 1960s that every country had a right to defend itself and that nations and societies were founded on the family. The influence of the Catholic hierarchy and of Catholicism itself on governmental decisions of the past is beyond question. Divorce and birth control were banned. Censorship based on Catholic values was in place. The clergy also had a role to play in politics. For instance, as parliamentary secretary at the Department of Justice in the early 1960s, the future Taoiseach [Prime Minister] Charles Haughey often visited Archbishop McQuaid for advice on such matters as allowing the police force a representative body. To this day, the Constitution still bears the remnants of the Church’s power in State affairs.
The story of how Catholic Ireland became a multicultural “dystopia” can be seen more clearly by exploring the role of three influential figures, namely, Gay Byrne, Nell McCafferty and Alan Shatter.
Drain The Swamp
Means Drain the Offshore Bank Accounts of the Swamp Creatures
And bring their TRILLIONS of dollars back into the USA.
It is being done, but it has to be hidden in the ESF so that it does not cause wild chaos in the markets and the economy. So far 2 trillion dollars have been paid directly to Americans, or indirectly through the wage support loans to businesses.
What is really happening
Is that the campaign in 2020
Is using different strategy and tactics from 2016
Meaning that onlookers can't figure it out
WHICH IS A GOOD THING in a war.
And the Mercers, who have money to spend on something
Are no longer spending money on electing Trump
Because that is already taken care of
As Pompeo told us
MERCER UNLEASHED
Meaning that somewhere in Pompeo's area of concern
Mercer has been given a green light
Beyond that, we won't know until it is too late for the opponent to counter the move.
Just remember, Trump is NOT saving America
Q is NOT saving America
Americans are saving America
And out of the 330 million of them
You aren't going to know about all the moves
Untill after they have been played.