Ben Stein: 'Real Problem With Race' Is 'Self-Defeating Black Underclass'

[alp227]

Conservative pundit Ben Stein on Monday said that the "black underclass" in America cannot escape "the scourge of drugs and the scourge of gangs,"

On Newsmax TV, Steve Malzberg asked Stein about a report that the mother of Michael Brown, the black teen shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer, faces felony charges.

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"You would think, if you read the liberal mainstream media, that the main problem with race in America was poor innocent black people being set upon and mistreated by the police. That’s just nonsense," he said, according to video recorded by BuzzFeed.

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"I mean, it’s an amazing thing — blacks were on their way in this country, even after the horrors of slavery, and then drugs came in, the destruction of families came in, and the crisis in the black community is just absolutely unbelievable," he said. "And that, it seems to me, is something that Mr. Obama could have addressed, and he just ignored it completely."

full: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-stein-black-underclass-drugs

Ben Stein is repeating basically Thomas Sowell's oft-quoted claim about black Americans: "The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life."

[bravenak]

1. Ben Stein is a black icon. Just ask him.

He knows like one black person. Juan Williams, his black 'friend'. Oh, and Ben Carson. Two black 'friends'.

[beam me up scottie]

2. Ben Stein needs to go back to peddling Visine.

That anyone would pay this guy for his opinion on anything else is just astounding.

[Eridenus]

7. Load him up on weed!

Make him *PROVE* visine works!

[beam me up scottie]

9. He needs a weed enema.

Not that I'm volunteering to get anywhere near that ass.

[Spazito]

3. Ben Stein is a racist POS who is completely irrelevant, imo n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Oh

How thoughtful of him. *sigh*. Sometimes people ought be seen and not heard!

[merrily]

5. If anyone knows African Americans (other than Piers Morgan), it's Ben Stein.

[Warpy]

6. The problem is morons like Stein thinking they know jack shit about anybody

they don't know, whether it's black folks, the poor, women, Hispanics, gay people, whatever they're not. Stein can tell us what it's like to be a rich moron, that's all, and he'd probably do a lousy job of that since he's got too little insight to realize the only thing pouring out of his piehole is sewage.

[mstinamotorcity2]

8. wow!!

Now that's funny

[Enrique]

10. "and then the drugs came in"

he should say "and then the war on drugs came in". Which happened when during Nixon, under whom Stein himself served in government.

By the way here is what he says about when drugs came into the white community:

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/29/ben-stein-1960s-nixon-sixties-sex-drugs/

"When the '60s started, you were lucky to get a good night kiss from a girl if you went on a date with her. When the '60s ended, it was very rare not to have sex. When the '60s began, none of us knew what marijuana looked like. When the '60s ended, we were all high at the time," said Stein.

[JHB]

11. Well, he's as much an expert about race as he is about paleontology...

Stein has pioneered a grand unified theory which combines both fields with those of politics, economics, and entertainment.

His key discovery is that they are all joined at the rectum. "Once you get your head through that, everything becomes clear", he notes.

[JaneyVee]

12. Jesus Christ. Where do they find these people?!

[nomorenomore08]

13. And as usual, white people are just blameless, innocent victims.

It's not "stereotyping," it's presenting hard truths the liberal media won't touch.