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[Kramers Attorney]

Walter E. Williams
The Underclass

Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in "Life at the Bottom." It's an insightful book of essays about the self-destructive behavior and attitudes of the underclass.

In one essay, "We Don't Want No Education," reprinted by City Journal ( http://www.city-journal.org/html/5_1_oh_to_be... ), Dalrymple says that he cannot recall meeting a 16-year-old from the public housing project near his hospital who could perform simple multiplication operations, such as nine times seven. One 17-year-old told him, "We didn't get that far." This was after 12 years of attending school. One of Dalrymple's patients took a drug overdose because of constant bullying from classmates. "She was stupid because she was clever." What her peers meant by that was anyone who worked hard and performed well at school was wasting his time when truancy and wandering downtown were deemed preferable. The underlying threat was: If you don't mend your ways and join us, we'll beat you up.

These weren't simply idle threats. Dalrymple says he's often met people in their 20s or 30s in his practice who gave up at school under such duress. Those who attend a school that has very high academic standards risk a beating if they venture into neighborhoods where the underclass live. He recalls treating two boys in the emergency room after they'd been beaten and two others who had taken overdoses for fear of being beaten at the hands of their neighbors.

Dalrymple says that most of the young people whom he's met in his practice cannot name a single writer and cannot recite a line of poetry. None of his young patients can give the dates of World War I, much less the second world war. Some patients never have heard of those wars, though one of his young patients who had heard of World War II thought it took place in the 18th century. In this atmosphere of total ignorance, Dalrymple says he was impressed that the young man had heard of the 18th century.

The education establishment aids and abets this state of gross ignorance. Dalrymple tells of one case in which the headmaster allows teachers to make only five corrections per piece of work, irrespective of the actual number of errors present. This is done so as not to damage student self-esteem. There are many other examples, but Dalrymple concludes that "it is extremely difficult to overturn these educational (or anti-educational) developments" because "teachers and the teachers of the teachers in the training colleges are deeply imbued with the kinds of educational ideas that have brought us to this pass."

[Kramers Attorney]

The reader may have been misled, with my help, into thinking that "We Don't Want No Education" is about the black underclass, but it's about the white underclass in Britain. We can't use white racism and the legacy of slavery so frequently used to explain the black underclass to explain Britain's underclass. The welfare state and the harebrained ideas of the public education establishment are a far better explanation for the counterproductive and self-destructive attitudes and lifestyles of both underclasses.

A "legacy of slavery" surely cannot explain problems among blacks, unless we assume it skips whole generations. In my book "Race and Economics" (Hoover Press, 2011), I cite studies showing that in New York City in 1925, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. In 1880 in Philadelphia, three-quarters of black families were composed of two parents and children. Nationally, in the late 1800s, percentages of two-parent families were 75.2 percent for blacks, 82.2 percent for Irish-Americans, 84.5 percent for German-Americans and 73.1 percent for native whites. Today just over 30 percent of black children enjoy two-parent families. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a black teenage girl's raising a child without a man present was rare.

Dalrymple's evidence from Britain shows that the welfare state is an equal opportunity destroyer.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com .
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[Walt]

George killed YET ANOTHER day fckin around on Topix. What a pitiful life.

George, YOU have waaaay tooo much time on your hands...

Get a real hobby...

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

George killed YET ANOTHER day fckin around on Topix. What a pitiful life.
George, YOU have waaaay tooo much time on your hands...
Get a real hobby...

I'm on vacation this week, perv. I'm going to post morning, noon and night just to see your head explode.

[Walt]

You're ALWAYS on vacation George in that Nursing home you live in...IDIOT

You post 24-7-365 everyday... What's new???

My head explode?? I give a rats azz less on what you do.. you lonely old fck...LOL

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

You're ALWAYS on vacation George in that Nursing home you live in...IDIOT
You post 24-7-365 everyday... What's new???
My head explode?? I give a rats azz less on what you do.. you lonely old fck...LOL

You couldn't give a rat's ass? That explains your stalking on Topix. It must be in your DNA. Well perv, I dare you to do it in person with me like you did with the little girl. This time you won't have to worry about going to court...

[Walt]

Kramers Attorney wrote:

<quoted text>You couldn't give a rat's ass? That explains your stalking on Topix. It must be in your DNA. Well perv, I dare you to do it in person with me like you did with the little girl. This time you won't have to worry about going to court...

What are ya gonna do George, hit me with your keyboard you old cripple sob living in a STINKY nursing home??? REALLLLLY??

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

<quoted text>What are ya gonna do George, hit me with your keyboard you old cripple sob living in a STINKY nursing home??? REALLLLLY??

Come on up and find out, perv.

[Walt]

Kramers Attorney wrote:

<quoted text>Come on up and find out, perv.

You're such a tuff SOB George.. Give me you're address to the nursing home you're in... No Bullsh*t, NO excuses...

Put up or shut up you coward old cripple bastard...

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

<quoted text>You're such a tuff SOB George.. Give me you're address to the nursing home you're in... No Bullsh*t, NO excuses...
Put up or shut up you coward old cripple bastard...

Come right to the Kroger plaza on Cemetery Rd, perv. I'll meet you in front of the BMV.
Think you have the courage, pedo?

[Walt]

Kramers Attorney wrote:

<quoted text>Come right to the Kroger plaza on Cemetery Rd, perv. I'll meet you in front of the BMV.
Think you have the courage, pedo?

You can't even walk so what are you planning to do, roll your wheelchair down there??

I'm not sure why a crippled old SOB like you wants to ATTEMPT to ACT so tuff online....

When the truth is you are a MISERABLE, ANGRY, CRIPPLE... I laugh at YOU George :):)

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

<quoted text>You can't even walk so what are you planning to do, roll your wheelchair down there??
I'm not sure why a crippled old SOB like you wants to ATTEMPT to ACT so tuff online....
When the truth is you are a MISERABLE, ANGRY, CRIPPLE... I laugh at YOU George :):)

Come and find out how "tuff" I am, coward.

[Walt]

I am still laughing at YOU George..

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

I am still laughing at YOU George..

You can't do much else, can you coward? You certainly can't be a man and confront me.

[George Jackerson Hilliard]

Kramers Attorney wrote:

<quoted text>You can't do much else, can you coward? You certainly can't be a man and confront me.

George...

GO TO YOUR ROOM!

Stand in the corner and bite both walls..... and stop this crap.

[Kramers Attorney]

George Jackerson Hilliard wrote:

<quoted text>
George...
GO TO YOUR ROOM!
Stand in the corner and bite both walls..... and stop this crap.

Ask your wife whose DNA is drifting around in her cervix, Bruce.

[Walt]

Kramers Attorney wrote:

<quoted text>You can't do much else, can you coward? You certainly can't be a man and confront me.

Really? LOL You'll never come out from hiding behind your keyboard, George..

You old azz is stuck to it 24-7 everyday.... You're just a bunch of meaningless hot air...

[George Jackerson Hilliard]

Walt wrote:

<quoted text>You can't even walk so what are you planning to do, roll your wheelchair down there??
I'm not sure why a crippled old SOB like you wants to ATTEMPT to ACT so tuff online....
When the truth is you are a MISERABLE, ANGRY, CRIPPLE... I laugh at YOU George :):)

If you really want a show down with poor limp George, you need to go to the Cemetery on Kroger Road in Hilliard and you'll see where George Chappelle Kramer made his last stand. He is a bit of a fraud without a spine and has been that through at least three fake black personalities, two of which have been banned from Topix for threatening and debased comments.

[Kramers Attorney]

Walt wrote:

<quoted text>Really? LOL You'll never come out from hiding behind your keyboard, George..
You old azz is stuck to it 24-7 everyday.... You're just a bunch of meaningless hot air...

Name the time, pedo. Your cowardice is legend.

[Walt]

George Jackerson Hilliard wrote:

<quoted text>
If you really want a show down with poor limp George, you need to go to the Cemetery on Kroger Road in Hilliard and you'll see where George Chappelle Kramer made his last stand. He is a bit of a fraud without a spine and has been that through at least three fake black personalities, two of which have been banned from Topix for threatening and debased comments.

So who is George Juffersuk,-Kramer-,the multi-usernamed idiot who spends ALL of his time on Topix?