Black people like being black
11th August 2010
Steve Sailer will discuss anything, anything at all.
For one thing, how much do blacks want to act white?
As far as I can tell, blacks, on the whole, have a blast being black.
They not only like being black, they like to talk about being black with other blacks. They have one of the more homogeneous cultures in the world, in part because they are constantly discussing being black with each other.
Sounds like being black is like belonging to the world’s largest Frat. Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
The reigning theory is that white culture will rub off on blacks by osmosis, but there is precious little evidence to back it up. Indeed, exposure to white people just makes blacks focus more on their blackness.
So much for modern theories of ‘assimilation’. Black people have been in America for four hundred years; if they aren’t assimilating, what are the chances of Latinos doing so? (Of course, Latinos are fond of pointing out that they were here first; which claim I’d take more seriously if more of them spoke Nahuatl or Athapascan rather than, oh, say, that native American language Spanish.)
Instead of blacks competing for white approval, whites today compete with each other over how much they approve of blacks.
Not surprisingly, that doesn’t do much to improve black behavior.
Hey, life is full of hardship.