Jay Livingston

The GSS question asks if “lack of motivation and will power” is a cause of Blacks having “worse jobs, income, and housing. ” The convergence comes earlier than in the Pew surveys, around 2002, and in some years the percent of Blacks agreeing exceeds the percent of whites

In the fall of 1961, I took a semester of freshman lit. The instructor was a young man named John Van Doren

I like the image of Trump kicking his ball out of the sand trap, and kicking the ball of his opponent in. At the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, women defending him insisted that the honorable and respectful way he acted as a boss, co-worker, or friend must also be the way he acted as a drunken teenager at parties. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why the map of Trump support looks a lot like the map of country music. But in different circumstances, as Stormy Daniels says, Trump can become a different person — just like Brett Kavanaugh, just like all of us.

The latest issue of the Hasbrouck Heights High School journal, The Pilot’s Log, reports on their student survey. The word, of course, isor in the Pilot’s Log version “the N-word.”OK, this survey isn’t the GSS. That’s true of rap as well, But rap, with its wordy and uncensored narratives, gives White listeners (and maybe Black listeners) the impression that this is how Black people really talk among themselves, or when they just don’t care what White people think. I expect there may be some conflict during this evolution, some people insisting that it’s wrong to for certain people to use the word this way.