Op-ed: Paul Ryan uses the race card to justify his conservative budget
Paul Ryan on Wednesday stated that the problem in the urban communities is not lack of jobs and poverty, but “inner city” men who are “not even thinking about working or learning the value of work.
He claims that his comments were not aimed at the Black community but everyone knows that when you use terms like urban and inner city, these are code words for blacks living in urban communities. He cited Charles Murray as one of the authors who influenced his thinking. Charles Murray is one of the author who wrote the book called the “Bell Curve” which was hotly debated several years ago. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labelled Charles Murray as a white Nationalist because of his views. Murray claims that the Poverty Programs which came out of the Johnson Administration were a failure because the problem in the black community is not a lack of work, but a lack of the culture. According to the Law center, Murray:
“using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor. According to Murray, disadvantaged groups are disadvantaged because, on average, they cannot compete with white men, who are intellectually, psychologically and morally superior. Murray advocates the total elimination of the welfare state”,
Ryan and the Republican Party plans to eliminate all of the programs which came out of the New Deal and President Johnson’s War on Poverty . If the Republicans take complete control of the government, the progressive communities will need step up it's non-violent struggle to save these programs. Poor White Americans need to understand that these racist attacks are an attempt to divide poor White and minority communities. The attack were not aimed at the White community because they do not want to upset their base of support prior to the 2014 elections. If you would like to check out more information concerning this issue, check out the sources below.
Sources:
Paul Ryan’s worthless attempt to save face: Why he’s still an overrated fraud
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/paul_ryans_worthless_attempt_to_save_face_why_hes_still_an_overrated_fraud/
Charles Murray
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/Charles-Murray
Paul Ryan blames poverty on lack of work ethic in inner cities
http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/ryan-generations-men-not-working
He first became well known for his Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 in 1984, which discussed the American welfare system.[3] Murray has also written In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (1988), What It Means to be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (1996), Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (2003), and In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (2006). He published Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality in 2008.[3]
Murray's articles have appeared in Commentary Magazine, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994) (ISBN 0-02-914673-9) is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book that Charles Murray wrote with the Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein. Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of many factors including financial income, job performance, unwed pregnancy, and crime than one's parents' socio-economic status or education level. Also, the book argued that those with high intelligence (the "cognitive elite") are becoming separated from the general population of those with average and below-average intelligence, and that this was a dangerous social trend.
Much of the controversy erupted from Chapters 13 and 14, where the authors write about the enduring differences in race and intelligence and discuss implications of that difference. While the authors were reported throughout the popular press as arguing that these IQ differences are genetic, they write in the introduction to Chapter 13 that "The debate about whether and how much genes and environment have to do with ethnic differences remains unresolved," and "It seems highly likely to us that both genes and the environment have something to do with racial differences."
The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of IQ scores. The normal distribution is the limiting distribution of a random quantity which is the sum of smaller, independent random phenomena.
Shortly after publication, large numbers of people rallied both to criticize and defend the book. Some critics denounced the book and its authors as supporting scientific racism. A number of books were written in response, to criticize The Bell Curve. Those books included a revised edition of evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, The Bell Curve Wars, a collection of essays reacting to Murray and Herrnstein's commentary, as well as The Bell Curve Debate, which contains essays that respond to the issues raised in The Bell Curve. Arthur S. Goldberger and Charles F. Manski critique the empirical methods supporting the book's hypotheses.]
Wikipedia
Books written by Charles Murray
A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization: Social and Economic Change in Thai Villages (Praeger Publishers, 1977)
Beyond Probation: Juvenile Corrections and the Chronic Delinquent – co-authored with Louis A. Cox, Jr. (Sage Publications, 1979)
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980, Basic Books (1984) ISBN 0-465-04231-7; on welfare reform
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, Simon & Schuster (1989) ISBN 0-671-68743-3
Apollo: The Race to the Moon, with Catherine Bly Cox, Simon & Schuster, (1989). ISBN 978-0-671-70625-8
What it Means to be a Libertarian, Broadway Books (1997) ISBN 0-553-06928-4
"IQ and economic success." Public Interest, 128, 21–35. (1997)
Income Inequality and IQ, AEI Press (1998) PDF copy
The Underclass Revisited, AEI Press (1999) PDF copy
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, HarperCollins (2003) ISBN 0-06-019247-X; a quantification and ranking of well-known scientists and artists
In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, AEI Press (March 2006) ISBN 0-8447-4223-6
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Schools Back to Reality, Crown Forum (August 2008) ISBN 978-0-307-40538-8
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
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