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# Saturday Stuff
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5992/
- Published: 2008-03-29T11:45:22.000Z
- Updated: 2008-03-29T11:45:22.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Politics, #wpChunk

Company weekend. Marie's brother is taking his sons (7 and 9) to Kalamazoo's Air Zoo for a cub/tiger scout outing. He dropped off his wife and daughter at our place last night. He's coming back today. I mention it because Andy read the itinerary to me, which is accurately summarized: "Museum tour and rocket making from 7:30 to midnight, movie from midnight to 2:00, sleep, up at 6:30 for breakfast and rocket launch."

Four-and-a-half hours of sleep for a pack of young boys. I was laughing (knowing I'd get a solid eight hours last night). Andy said, "Yeah, the pack leader's a great guy, but he's a little gung-ho." Hitler was gung-ho, too. Maybe these are the Scout Nazis.  
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If you're interested in the race issue, check out[ John McWhorter's review of Larry Elder's *Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose*](http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0326jm.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It has interesting facts and good insight. First, some facts:

> Elder quotes James Q. Wilson's 38 most important words for black Americans: “Finish high school, marry before having a child, and produce the child after the age of twenty. Only 8 percent of families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.” Few could deny the wisdom of that counsel, but many fail to see that it logically requires letting go of the racism fetish. As Elder puts it: “Racists do not prevent kids from studying, racists do not demand that men father children outside of wedlock.” And further: “Complete and total eradication of racism cannot instill the necessary moral values that create healthy, prosperous communities.”

> Besides, Elder observes, “if racists hold blacks back, they're doing a bad job.” In 2003, total earned income by blacks was $656 billion, a sum so large that this “black GDP–if blacks represented their own country–places them within the top sixteen countries in the world.”

Second, the insight:

> The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 suddenly left black people responsible for proving themselves before they had had a chance to overcome their internalized sense of inadequacy. After centuries of marginalization, this should not have been surprising. There were now two ways for a black person to make his way. He could embrace accountability and work to take advantage of the new opportunities. Or he could fashion a sense of legitimacy by playing the noble victim, exploiting white America's new susceptibility to such postures.

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[Ten prophetic sci-fi movies](http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4256186.html?page=1&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Pretty good list, though I've only seen a few of them. [Via](http://www.lewrockwell.com/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).  
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That's it for now. A writing deadline and out-of-town clients arriving later this morning call.