What facts don't support my statement?
Home ownership is an avenue to obtaining wealth in this country yes or no? Legislature by the government was created to prevent black people from owning homes in the early 1900's LONG before the War on Drugs you love to quote and reference.
So black people were prevented from owning homes that's 1.
All public education is not created equal. Schools are still to this day zoned and divided among income and racial lines and since by a vast majority of black people are not wealthy you have the rich in school with the rich and the poor in school with the poor. As a result rich suburban schools receive more funding which means they can pay teachers more, pay more for resources which include new technologies, textbooks etc.
Unequal education that's 2.
So we have a lack of wealth + lack of education = poverty
We all know poverty comes with higher rate of crime, drug use, broken homes etc.
This s*** isn't rocket science. You have 2-3 generations of a family living in poverty where are the children going to learn to take "PeRsONal AcCounTaBiLiTy" from?
Are we going to act like a child's environment has no impact on their ability to learn as well?
Y'all can't be this dense ain no way lmao.
"To take that stance you have to be willing to ignore all history, child developmental psychology, basic economics, and criminology."
The fact is have not "ignored" any of that.
Two (or more) things can be true at the same time.
When you point out all these failings and proceed to talk about accountability the implication is that lack of accountability is a root of these issues, or that greater personal accountability is a solution. Perhaps I am connecting dots you didnt intend to have connected. Let me rephrase. These stats you keep throwing out, the ills of black society in america. your claims that the black family has been/is destroyed. What is the root of these issues in your opinion?
What is the root of these issues in your opinion?
Basically its Lost Values.
IMHO wealth starts and ends with strong family units...its the foundation of everything.
You can pump all the money you want into the Black Community but without strong family units it will leave just as fast.
No inheritance, no kids to pass anything down to, etc.
Economics / wealth cannot take the place of spirituality, family, health, appearance (how we present ourselves to the World), etc. - its actually the other way around.
I didn't "claim" the Black Family is being destroyed.
Its the freaking Census Bureau Fam...unless anyone else has a better source?
As long as this chart is accurate - don't talk to me about white folks.
I'm not comparing black people to anyone or anything else - no whataboutisms over here.
"Yeah - but white folks are doing it too" = not concerned with what White folks are doing.
"Yeah - but white folks are racist" = not concerned with what White folks are doing.
"Yeah - but white folks got the power" = not concerned with what White folks are doing.
We cant do anything about "White Folks".
We already tried that with the Civil Rights movement.
Integration had a worse effect on us than all the Crime / Drug Laws put together IMHO.
I believe my people can succeed through all the best laid traps / carefully made plans.
I aint worried about what we cant do.
I'm focused on what we can do.
IMHO the negative reaction to even the mere thought that we as a people could ever have even the slightest modicum of accountability for anything - even in this thread - is really eye opening, and sad.
Apparently White folks cant stop us from having kids but the can stop us from getting married.
The average income for Black Men in this nation is a little over 50k, while the average for Black women is around 40K.
Together that's 90K - more than enough to make it in a lot of places (without Only Fans or Scamming).
We don't have to live like this.
IMHO - Once Black Men and Black Women figure out how to work together, get our values back, and create strong families again- its over!
The Black Family is the foundation of our success.
Once our house is in order aint nothing we cant do.