I didn't read all 20 pages, so excuse me if this has already been mentioned, but I saw some mentions of black males not being enrolled in college and out-of-wedlock births. Well, thanks to discrimination in law, black males are being taken out of their communities and put in prisons at alarming rates. Right-wing people have their version of why black males get locked up more often than other races, but in truth, it comes down to discrimination. For instance, whites and black use drugs at the same rates, yet blacks are arrested at a rate far exceeding that of whites for drug crimes. This accounts for both phenomena (college, out-of-wedlock births). People can't attend college with a felony charge, but even if they could, people lose years of their lives in prison; most 55 year olds, for instance, wouldn't be interested in returning to school even if they could. The time, money, and energy spent wouldn't seem to be worth it to them, because they'd have to fully support themselves through it all; they'd rather work straight out at that point, and I can't blame them. And as far as the out-of-wedlock issue, it's not hard to see how taking a child's father away for years could be detrimental to a community when done on a large scale; this is exactly what's happening to the black community right now, and the right-wing media just paints it as if blacks are more prone to commit crimes... SMH. IF anti-intellectualism is more rampant in black communities, I would say that it is greatly exaggerated by these facts of discrimination. Also impacted are the socioeconomic conditions of the black community as a whole, which in turn fosters a more anti-intellectual environment, as poverty lends itself to ignorance.