1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,300 Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone in the 2 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:05,400 libertarian Institute. This is a summary of Thomas 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,500 holes thesis in Black rednecks and white liberals. 4 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:12,700 The summary is by Thomas soul in a book titled, economic facts 5 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:16,600 and fallacies. Many of the social or cultural 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,500 differences between American blacks and American whites 7 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:24,000 Nationwide today, were in Antebellum times pointed out as 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,900 differences between white Southerners and white. 9 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:31,800 Northerners, these include ways of talking rates of crime and 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,200 violence. Children, born out of wedlock, 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:37,900 educational attainment, and economic initiative, or lack 12 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:42,000 thereof while only about one-third of the Antebellum, 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,900 white population of the United States. 14 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:48,400 Lived in the South at least 90 percent of American blacks lived 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,600 in the south on into the 20th century. 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,700 In short, the great majority of blacks lived, in a region with a 17 00:00:55,708 --> 00:01:00,100 culture that proved to be less productive and less peaceful for 18 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:04,099 its inhabitants in general. Moreover opportunities to move 19 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:08,000 beyond that culture, were more restricted for blacks. 20 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:11,400 The legacy of the Southern Culture is more readily 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,500 documented in the behavior of later generations. 22 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:18,100 Shannon's then in the legacy of slavery, which some 23 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:21,500 distinguished 19th century, writers said, explain the 24 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:26,400 behavior of Antebellum, Southern whites and which later writers 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,200 said, explain that bit behavior of blacks. 26 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:34,400 In reality, the regional culture of the South existed in 27 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,300 particular regions of Britain, in centuries past regions where 28 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:43,300 people destined to settle in the American South, exhibited the 29 00:01:43,308 --> 00:01:47,100 same behavior. Patterns before they immigrated 30 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:51,100 to the American South. They were called crackers and 31 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:53,600 rednecks before they cross the Atlantic. 32 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,400 And before they ever saw a slave as a, well-known Southern 33 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,700 historian said, we do not live in the past but the past lives 34 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:04,800 in US. Educational and intellectual 35 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,199 performance is a readily documented area where the 36 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,000 Persistence of culture can be tested as late as the first 37 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,500 world war white soldiers from Rhea Southern States, scored 38 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:21,200 lower on mental tests than black soldiers from various northern 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,600 states. Not only did black soldiers, 40 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,000 have the advantage of better schools in the north. 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,300 They also had an opportunity for the Southern Culture to begin to 42 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:35,000 erode in their new surroundings. Over the years, much has been 43 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,800 made of the fact that black Score lower than whites 44 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,300 Nationwide, on mental tests from this, some observers have 45 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:44,400 concluded that this is due to what racial difference. 46 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,000 And others have concluded that this is due to some sort of 47 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,200 deficiency or bias in the test. But neither explanation would 48 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,700 account for white Southerners, mental test scores in the first 49 00:02:56,700 --> 00:03:01,800 world war, whatever the sources of the lower educational, or 50 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,900 intellectual attainments among blacks, there are major economic 51 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:08,900 and social consequences of such differences. 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,800 For many years, Black's received a lesser quantity and quality of 53 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,000 Education in the southern schools that most attended. 54 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:23,400 But even after the quantity, Gap was eliminated by the late 20th 55 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,100 century, the qualitative Gap remained large, the test scores 56 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:31,500 of black 17 year olds and a variety of academic subjects 57 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:34,100 were the same. As the scores of white several 58 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:36,800 years. Younger that is obviously not a 59 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,400 basis for expecting equal results in Economy, increasingly 60 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,300 dependent on mental skills. Both history and statistics 61 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,300 reveal. The fallacy of the legacy of 62 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:54,900 slavery, explanation for current social, pathology in America's 63 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:58,500 black ghettos, Senator Edward Brooke, who grew up in 64 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,000 Washington's black community in the 1920s and 30s. 65 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:07,600 Summarized in a few words, what? Many statistics, confirm, We're 66 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,300 young people growing up in America today, stories of my 67 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:12,300 youth will seem almost incomprehensible. 68 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:16,800 It will require the suspension of their sense of reality to 69 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,300 picture our time. When the large areas of 70 00:04:19,308 --> 00:04:23,200 Washington d.c. were truly safe. When families stayed together, 71 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,900 neighbors helped one. Another students were encouraged 72 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,400 to study and there were no drugs or drive-by shootings. 73 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:35,000 The world that Senator Brooke described was Generations closer 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,900 to the era of slavery then. Durations pervaded by the ghetto 75 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:42,500 social. Pathology all too familiar in 76 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:47,000 our own times. Moreover many remarkably similar 77 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,300 pathologies have been found in a study of a white lower class 78 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:56,400 community in Britain where none of the familiar explanations of 79 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,700 slavery racism or discrimination apply what lower class white 80 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,700 communities in Britain and black ghettos in the United States. 81 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:08,000 Have in common is a pattern of social pathologies That became 82 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,200 pronounced in the latter half of the 20th century. 83 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:15,300 When similar ideas and policies became dominant in both 84 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:18,800 countries. Britain was once one of the most 85 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:24,500 law-abiding Nations on Earth, but by 1995, it's crime rate in 86 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:27,500 most categories was higher than that. 87 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:32,000 In the United States in both countries, politicians activists 88 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,200 and ideologues who claimed to have Solutions instead made many 89 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,500 problems worse. Worse than before. 90 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:41,500 Thank you for watching Keith Knight don't tread on anyone and 91 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:38,500 the libertarian Institute. Worse than before. 92 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:41,500 Thank you for watching Keith Knight don't tread on anyone and 93 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:43,200 the libertarian Institute.