Suburbs = White Ghettos

Star Parker has a new book out titled White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay which makes the argument about how "[t]he sexual chaos, values disorientation, and social turmoil we see in our inner cities...is just a magnified reflection of the moral collapse happening all over America: in our schools, our churches, our homes."

Many of her conclusions seem to back up much of what I argued about the rampant decadence in suburbia in a previous post here. Just like my arguments about European popes and religious faith in Europe, it appears my arguments have been once again vindicated.

I particularly enjoyed the author's remarks about the degraded nature of pop culture that many suburbanites enjoy. Everything from TV shows like Sex and the City(it wasn't the inner cities that made this show popular) to overly sexualized and vulgar music found on MTV(which suburban teens watch 24/7). And the quality of religious faith found within suburbia is extremely low, basically it's just a religious version of the degraded secularist pop culture.

As I argued both then and now, the notion that suburbia is somehow a haven for virtue is largely a delusion that suburbanites like to constantly promote about themselves. It has little basis in reality and largely rests on nostalgic images of how suburbs were back in the 1950's(or rather how it was portrayed on shows like Leave it to Beaver). Suburbs are indeed nothing more than "white ghettos".