All In with Chris Hays does a great job mocking the “What’s wrong with Black culture?” question. He and his “guest,” Gawker’s Cord Jefferson, straight-face skewer news programs that take every instance of African American law breaking as an opportunity to castigate the group writ large. It’s great satire:
Via Todd Krohn at The Power Elite.
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Missa Ndrea — August 18, 2013
I totally love these, thank you so much! One thing though, in that video of the mob -- there are no women. Well only one and she's quickly grabbed by (her boyfriend presumably) and rushed through the mob to safety. And when there are no women who feel safe participating, you know there's a problem...
I bet there were a lot of gang rapes at that event.
Ricky — August 18, 2013
Those guys are probably just trying to buy some Skittles.
Larry Charles Wilson — August 18, 2013
White males can't hold their firewater.
ViktorNN — August 19, 2013
The "script flipping" attempted here by Cord Jefferson doesn't really work. When the Huntington Beach PD posted stills of wanted rioters, at least half were non-whites. It seems like even in a "white riot" non-whites are over-represented. Oh well, amusing idea even if it's not borne out by reality in this case.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.611550952222807.1073741837.148382285206345&type=1
pduggie — August 19, 2013
What's wrong with male culture.
pduggie — August 19, 2013
1 word: Chavs.
Jacob Stephen Cook — September 21, 2013
What's wrong with black culture? I'll let blacks answer:
John McWhorter: "The association of young black men with violence doesn't come out of thin air. It’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men."
Sixx King: "The KKK killed 3,446 blacks in 86 years. Black on black murders surpass that number every 6 months."
Ben Carson: "MLK would be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values. Another area of great concern would be the fact that 73 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock."
Dambisa Moyo (paraphrased): "Foreign aid has created a culture of dependency in Africa. Africans need to be treated as adults, rather than encouraged to remain perpetually in childhood."
Steve Harvey: "We've lost a generation of black men."
Bill Cosby's essay "We Cannot Blame the White People any Longer"
Stacey Gear's video "Black People Have Become too Ignorant for Me to Claim, I Need to Invent a New Race"