There are simply no easy solutions to the problems caused by a culture
that:

- Humiliates those who excel academically...
- Accepts and encourages very early, single-parent child-bearing...
- Expects males to play little or no role in child rearing...
- Has no social sanctions against absentee fathers...
- Regards working 9 to 5 for "chump change" as "selling out to the Man"
- Expects the Federal Government to fulfill every basic need...
- Sees authority figures as the enemy...
- Views the sale of drugs as an acceptable economic alternative...
- Accepts violence as a normal way to solve disputes...


I don't see this beeing the American culture (if one can speak of an
American culture; IMVHO there are too many differences from east to west
and esp north to south)

I'm not sure if you have misunderstood, so I'll try to clarify.

This is not an indictment of American society as a whole. Far from it. I
am specifically talking about the phenomenon of generation-to-generation
reliance on government support that pervades much of America's large inner
cities. The group that lives in this manner has been dubbed our
"underclass," and it is a huge problem that has been largely ignored by
politicians and people (primarily on the Left) who desperately hope that
throwing money at it will make it go away.

Television coverage of Hurricane Katrina gave the world an intimate, often
ugly view of what life is really like in the inner cities of America. I'm
mildly hopeful that this international humiliation will force our political
leaders to actually deal with the issue.

But I'm not holding my breath.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
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