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2012/08/29 07:14:47
Subject: Re:Why are African Immigrants more successful than blacks born in the US?
Amaya wrote: I think the fact they don't value education and have poor role models is a problem. Trying to make it as a rapper in a massively over saturated market, superstar athlete or dealing are not acceptable choices. The question becomes, why are those the only choices? It's the product of a welfare state.
The problem, fundamentally, is that this conclusion of yours doesn't line up with economic history at all. Before the welfare state there wasn't poor people climbing into the middle class - back then social mobility was much worse, not better. One of the major reasons the US right now has worse social mobility than most other developed countries is the smaller/tighter welfare system.
I agree that little value for education is the major problem, but the welfare state thing is a total red herring.
Chamillionaire is 100 times better than the typical crap that gets played on SA hip hop stations.
Okay. Just curious, is that your opinion, or is that something generally believed among hip hop fans? I ask because over here rap isn't as big, with only a couple of songs charting each year (and most of those are more club music than standard rap).
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2012/08/29 17:25:56
Subject: Re:Why are African Immigrants more successful than blacks born in the US?
He's generally regarded as above average. In all honesty, Southern "rap" is typically so terrible that I have trouble taking anyone who likes it opinion on music seriously. He's actually tolerable.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
dogma wrote: Apparently Los Angeles, California is now in Pakistan.
They're probably using Apple Maps.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2012/12/31 23:09:27
Subject: Re:Why are African Immigrants more successful than blacks born in the US?
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