Glenn Loury, a professor, economist, and self-described “woke-buster,” candidly opened up about race relations and crime” target=”_blank”>crime<.
The “woke-buster” voiced concerns over the claims some people assert about police specifically targeting African Americans.
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“Blacks yield vastly more political clout at all levels of government today than was the case four decades ago, yet it is arguable that conditions are much worse,” Loury said during a 2005 lecture. “The crime” target=”_blank”>prisons of the nation<
The professor explained his past comments, arguing that the idea the problem could be solved by “expanding the great society… enacting more anti-discrimination laws…(and) doubling down on affirmative action…is an error.”
“Whereas in 1968, it was a compelling argument to say two nations, separate and unequal, that’s what the Kerner Commission said… in the year 2021 the ball is in our court,” he argued.
“I speak now about African Americans. This is basically a level playing field that we are dealing with right here. In the freest, most prosperous, most dynamic society on the planet, that millions of people are willing to risk everything just to get into, we are birthright citizens here. The ball is in our court.”
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Loury recalled a quote from his friend Shelby Steele explaining the current problem is not one of oppression, but a problem of freedom.
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The professor also expressed the importance of community support in a world that often suffers from the breakdown of the family:
“There’s space for appealing to people at the level of their spiritual responsibilities and urging them to look differently at how it is that they should live their lives,” he explained. “I said in (a past) essay: ‘What program could be more effective at encouraging parents to take responsibility for their children than persuading them that they’re God’s stewards in the lives of their children?’ A clever economist could come up with all kinds of schemes to motivate them financially, but if they embrace that idea, that this is a precious responsibility, this is a sacred obligation, they’re going to get the job done that we want them to get done.”
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