Subculture is main issue

Regarding Leonard Pitts’ column of March 25: Racism will be with us as long as there are people of different colors. Reducing it to the minimum possible is a worthy project.

We have been at that project for 40 years and have made great progress, to the point that racism is not now the main problem holding people in our underclass. Pitts’ column is a lazy shot at an easy target.

The main problem now is the corrosive subculture of the underclass, glorifying criminality, violence, drug use and misogyny. This is resulting in high illegitimacy rates, low education achievement, high incarceration rates and the consequent poverty.

Pitts and the burgeoning “diversity industry” rarely address this corrosive subculture because it requires saying something critical of people of color. If they actually care about the welfare and progress of the multicolored underclass, including white, it is time for Pitts and the diversity industry to get out of their comfort zone and fight the underclass subculture as much as they fight racism. They rarely address this subject and some even condemn those that speak against it. They have become tiresome parasites in their self-righteous PC cocoon.

Tom Horne

Spokane