Everything you know about the black “culture of poverty” is wrong Most of what everybody knows about the black “culture of poverty” isn’t true. “Put more bluntly, they are lies,” say Jonah Birch & Paul Heideman. They’ve been debunked by many studies by social scientists. Among these lies: - That “black youth inhabit a culture that venerates... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...