But their hustle's "breadwinner" thesis asserts that the race problem in America consists of black people who do not realize that there is no race problem in America. They forcefully promote the false concept that blacks as a group are unwilling to assume any responsibility for conditions within black communities.
Again, "it's all whitey's fault."
This thesis also contends that the nation's racial problem is directly rooted in the refusal by blacks to reject the "culture of victim hood and dependency," a refusal that blinds blacks to what reverse race-hustlers apparently see as an obvious American racial utopia. It maintains that America's "black trash," its "brood mares" -- both characterization Hamblin repeatedly applies to black inner-city residents -- are oblivious to the race-neutral nature of a modern American society in which ethnicity plays an insignificant, if at all any, factor in the social conditions found in her inner cities.
It's the America depicted by Elder in Stupid Black Men, a place where -- contrary to what Elder believes to be the view of mainstream black America -- "white racism is no longer a major barrier to progress within the black community."
Yet, in their zeal to portray to whites, the notion of African-Americans as whining, hopelessly clueless, "race-card" flashing malcontents who cling to a belief that white racism blocks every road to success, Elder and other reverse race-hustlers apparently overlooked the contradictory results of several studies which surveyed the attitudes of African-Americans.
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For example, instead of pointlessly demanding Detroit's mayor to "take a look at my mailbag," Elder might have made a point of taking a hard look at the findings of a Pew Research Center poll released last November. It shows that while "...sixty-eight percent of blacks say they deal with racial discrimination today in at least two of the categories of experience cited in the poll: employment; home ownership; acquiring a college education; and social activities," fifty-three percent of black Americans now agree that "blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition."
The same poll also casts doubt on the charge that identity politics sweeps the African-American community. It shows that seventy-two percent of whites and fifty-four percent of blacks agree that in the last 10 years, "values held by black people and the values held by white people (have) become more similar."
Indeed, another Pew poll, taken in October, reveals that “whites, blacks and Hispanics all have generally favorable opinions of one another and all tend to see inter-group relations in a more positive than negative light. There are some differences in these attitudes by race, ethnicity, age, social-economic status and geography -- but these tend to be small. The overall portrait of race relations is one of moderation, stability and modest progress.”
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