Let us first decode the code words; ghettos = African Americans; barrios = Mexicans. Next let us loudly declare the abject falseness of Dick's premise here as he forwards the fallacy that economically impoverished African American and Mexican people generally lack "respect for learning and ambition." After that, let us fairly condemn his suggestion that these false tendencies are rooted in African American and Mexican cultural dynamics; otherwise, why would it be necessary to look to a Japanese or Jewish model to correct this imaginary collective flaw. Perhaps along the way, we should also consider the pre-colonial histories of these peoples, the expansive societies they built, and the contributions that their cultures made to the forward flow of human history before their cultural characters were fundamentally altered and largely destroyed by morally bankrupt Europeans who raped, robbed, murdered, and pillaged in a pattern that continues in these communities, and in new cultures and communities around the globe today. (At some point in the not too distant future, I anticipate hearing Dick say the same things about the people living in Iraq and Afghanistan.) Now finally, let us properly plant a foot of clarity on the head and/or backside of this long recognized racist for suggesting that the oppressive culture that he represents and defends has no responsibility for the deprived conditions that people in ghettos and barrios deal with on a daily basis. This quote clearly reveals that Dick Lamm and his contemporaries live in a self-deluding, morally and spiritually repressed alternate reality where they have the right and responsibility to exploit and oppress the world, while criticizing their victims for the fallout.