Blacks Should "Clean Up Their Acts" To Put An End To Acquired Prejudices
Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, writes in the National Review that the new FX series “Black.White.� is intentionally designed and edited in order to show racism and discrimination because “otherwise there would be, literally, no show.� But Clegg claims that “old-fashioned bigotry is dying� because “young white people today are not sat down by their parents and told, ‘Look, son/daughter, you need to know that black people are dangerous, promiscuous, lazy, and stupid.’ Rather, to the extent that kids today develop prejudices, it is more likely based on their own experiences and observations — which include the unpleasant but undeniable facts that a disproportionate number of blacks commit crimes, have children out of wedlock, and do poorly in school.� Clegg’s antidote to the development of these prejudices is “for those disproportions to end. And for that to happen, the black community has to pressure its own to clean up their acts … "