An actual report on the subject of immigrants and discrepancies can be found here. The attitudes of black immigrants are already part of the popular culture. I remember a Saturday Night Live sketch in which a member of a black immigrant's family is scorned by the rest of the family for having only five jobs.

I agree that this disproves the "genetic inferiority" theory, even assuming anyone was stupid enough to believe it in the first place.

The "cultural inferiority" theory is not so easily dismissed, especially considering what the black leadership, welfare industry, and black-oriented media of this country considers "black" culture. Vile or not, it has to be taken into account.

There is something to be said for the "selection" effect, and I don't know how important that is. I know I have also seen more positive attitudes (in a TV news report) on the part of black immigrant manual laborers.

The point of the story was not really the source of the can-do and non-racist attitudes of black immigrants, but rather the fact that the black leadership in the U.S. considers this attitude an aberration that has to be "educated" out of them and replaced with the proper "race victim" orientation. In other words, proper "black" culture.

I wonder if anybody at all stood up at the conference and asked if there was some way to do it the other way around, and educate black Americans in the attitudes of the immigrants.