Every American seems to have an opinion on the causes of perpetual poverty among blacks, despite the inconvenient statistical fact that black families have dramatically risen in wealth over the last four decades. Discussions today have as a kind of background noise the black underclass, which seems impervious to all government programs to lift this statistically unrepresentative group out of poverty. So, in the spirit of helpful do-goodism, which is the politically correct update of what used to be called the white man’s burden, here are my suggestions. They begin with a presupposition: class position isn’t primarily about one’s level … Continue reading How To Succeed in America