It takes guts to write this blog today because the Democratic Party has destroyed respect for the wonderful capacity of human beings to cluster observations and data into a useful form. The Democrats have created a vicious tirade directed at people the Democrats don't like and they call this wonderful human capacity ‘stereotyping’ in general and ‘racism’ in particular.
If I eat enough capers over time I find I get very bad breath. So I generalize to the statement that capers can create bad breath in large quantities. That is an empirical observation that is a stereotype and helps guide my life away from bad breath. Capers can be wonderful as individuals and a large quantity can be accurately stereotyped.
Young black males, wearing droopy pants and hoodies, are 5 to 6 times as likely to commit a crime as other young people. When they are in a group they are even more dangerous. That is an empirical observation that is also a stereotype and Democrats attack it as ‘racism’.
I operate on that stereotypical-racist basis and so do 97% of other intelligent people. We will cross the street if we are confronted by three or four young black males in hoodies.
My observation, that is the core of this blog, is that in dealing with the black population of America, excluding old-line black families from the North, a high percentage of blacks are innumerate. They cannot do rudimentary math. In the very few situations where blacks have been given financial responsibility I have too often seen fraud and corruption. Think Jesse Jackson Jr.
Simple math is increasingly a minimum job requirement in the modern world. A phone calculator won't help someone who is innumerate.
It does not surprise me that a President of the United States who is half black is also innumerate. Almost any time he uses numbers he uses them wrong. He has said 300 million Americans when the correct number was three million. He has said 20% when the number was 10%. He makes numerical errors almost any time he uses numbers. So he avoids using numbers.
When Obama is out of office and we get all the inside stories I am confident we will be told that nobody ever presented him with numeric data if they wanted to convince him of anything.