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Walter Williams' 1985 PBS documentary "Good Intentions"

submitted by blankfist

1 decade 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

Walter Williams' 1985 PBS documentary Good Intentions based on his book, The State Against Blacks (1982). The documentary was very controversial at the time it was released and led to many animosities and even threats of murder. In Good Intentions, Dr. Williams examines the failure of the war on poverty and the devastating effect of well meaning government policies on blacks asserting that the state harms people in the U.S. more than it helps them.

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I was in grade school when this came out, so I watched to see if the modern WW has just gotten cynical and sold out in his old age. Maybe he was more honest back then.

hmmmmm.....a documentary where poverty is highlighted alot, but not one mention of the poverty rate and how it changed from the 60s to the time of the film. Ditto with education: all these 'experts' bemoan the decline in education, but not one mention of any broad measure against the 60s: graduation rates, average test scores, average GPAs, anything. Could it be that they don't have access to this information?

Dishonest.

And shilling for educational vouchers; I had no idea that issue had been defeated way back in the 80s. It seems the people of DC were even too savvy back then to fall for it.

Eliminating the minimum wage is a cure for poverty? Please explain the math to me!

In the example of the phili high school, a least he admitted that there were more students who graduated, despite the other problems. "These diplomas were worth less", yeah, but that was a nationwide phenomenona. And I agree about the cab issue.

The guy at about 21:00 goes through this elaborate narrative about a black ghetto girl, and her incentives to have a child out of wedlock so she can get paid, but then says it's not about race. WTF?

Check out the book: Getting it Wrong:

http://thorainstitute.blogspot.com/

Moving this video to blankfist's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by chingalera.

Awarding cdimetry with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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