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21st February 2023, 08:03 PM

Got it from Whitey?

One Truth About Black Culture That Shocked Joe Rogan, Part One (https://www.westernjournal.com/one-truth-black-culture-shocked-joe-rogan-part-one/)

The following story is part of The Western Journal’s exclusive series “The Sowell Digest.” Each issue of the series will break down one of Sowell’s many influential works. This article is part one of two covering “Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” the first chapter of one of Sowell’s most prominent books which shares the same name.

Sowell begins the book with a short, inflammatory quote: “These people are creating a terrible problem in our cities. They can’t or won’t hold a job, they flout the law constantly and neglect their children, they drink too much and their moral standards would shame an alley cat. For some reason or other, they absolutely refuse to accommodate themselves to any kind of decent, civilized life.”

Upon reading that quote, most readers would likely assume it’s in reference to blacks who immigrated north following abolition.
Those readers would be wrong.

“This was said in 1956 in Indianapolis, not about blacks or other minorities, but about poor whites from the South… A 1951 survey in Detroit found that white Southerners living there were considered ‘undesirable’ by 21 percent of those surveyed, compared to 13 percent who ranked blacks the same way,” Sowell wrote.

This “undesirable” redneck culture first originated in the British Isles. According to Sowell, when the British (https://www.westernjournal.com/british-police-make-stunning-discovery-jack-ripper-case-exciting-moment-us/) first immigrated to America, they came over in groups. For example, most of the British who arrived in Massachusetts came from the same area of East Anglia.

Similarly, those who moved to the southern U.S. all came from the same area of Britain: the Celtic fringe. Disconnected from “the cultural heartland of England,” Brits from the Celtic fringe lived in dire, lawless and impoverished conditions.

As a result, these Brits, known in their homeland as “crackers” and “rednecks,” developed many poor cultural habits such as uncleanliness, a proclivity towards violence and a desire for instant gratification through sex and the use of hard substances (https://www.westernjournal.com/republican-shouts-3-words-top-lungs-biden-mentions-fentanyl-deaths/).

“In this world of impotent laws, daily dangers, and lives that could be snuffed out at any moment, the snatching at whatever fleeting pleasures presented themselves was at least understandable,” Sowell wrote. “Certainly prudence and long-range planning of one’s life had no such pay-off in this chaotic world as in more settled and orderly societies under the protection of effective laws.”

While these cultural habits and values may have proved useful in the lawless, backward rural area of Britain from whence they originated, in the U.S. they created nothing but problems for the groups who held fast to them.

“What the rednecks or crackers brought with them across the ocean was a whole constellation of attitudes values, and behavior patterns that might have made sense in the world in which they had lived for centuries, but which would prove to be counterproductive in the world to which they were going–and counterproductive to the blacks who would live in their midst for centuries before emerging into freedom and migrating to the great urban centers of the United States, taking with them similar values,” Sowell wrote.