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Cosby was right.(CULTURE AND SOCIETY)
Kay Hymowitz, "What's Holding Black Kids Back?" City Journal, Spring 2005 (city-journal.org)
Comedian Bill Cosby packed houses and incurred liberal wrath last year when he told black "lower economic" parents, "You got to straighten up your house! Straighten up your apartment! Straighten up your child! ... What we need now is parents sitting down with children, overseeing homework, sending children off to school in the morning, well fed, rested, and ready to learn."
The Manhattan Institute's Kay Hymowitz agrees. "Poor black parents," she explains, "rear their children very differently from the way middle class parents do, and even by the time the kids are four years old, the results are extremely hard to change."
Middle class families buy into what she calls "The Mission" theory of parenting. The frenetic parenting style of the soccer morn--baby Mozart tapes, trips to the museum, and limited TV and junk food--aims to shape "children into citizens in a democratic polity, and self-disciplined, self-reliant skilled workers in a complex economy."
The child-rearing ...
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