Ben Stein: Blacks Are ‘Self-Defeating’

Ben Stein is apparently determined to make all African Americans hate him. The former member of the Nixon administration and Comedy Central game-show host said America’s race problem isn’t about racism. Rather, “the real problem with race in America is a very, very beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass that is—uh, just can’t seem to get its way going in the way that blacks were able to before the scourge of drugs and the scourge of gangs,” he said on NewsMaxTV. Stein also blamed Obama for black struggles in America. “Blacks were on their way in this country, even after the horrors of slavery, and then drugs came in, the destruction of families came in, “ he said. “And that, it seems to me, is something that Mr. Obama could have addressed, and he just ignored it completely.”