Maybe you're a little too stuck in the past, Koan....you and Alex both. If you read the Pew poll, you'll find a generational difference of opinion on what's most to blame for the problem behaviors of young blacks. Only 35% of young blacks themselves hold to your argument. They hold black culture in general to blame. They believe blacks have to do more to help themselves and have to quit making excuses.
Maybe old-timers like you and Alex are in fact enablers. The Michael Brown funeral was so discouraging to me----a parade of "enablers" who managed to turn a young thug into a cultural hero. The White House even sent 3 representatives. To do what? "Honor" someone who could never be called a role model?
No matter how you measure it, the statistics of blacks as a group are terrible when measured against their numbers, i.e. 15% of all Americans. I put a huge amount of blame on AA women. For 25 years, I've sat on mall benches while my family shopped and watched AA women jerk their kids around, call them fools, threaten them, yell, spank, and even slap small toddlers across the face. In short, terrorize their small children rather than drop down to their eye level and try to reason with them. I think of their young brains just constantly being flooded with stress hormones and then read studies claiming the average black infant is developmentally falling behind by the age of six months and thinking 'no surprise there'.
You're wrong to think the public schools can turn most of these kids around. Even 4 year old pre-school is too late for most. They're too damaged, imo, and need intense one-one-one involvement with a caring adult.
The best answer I can come up with is for every black child born to a young single mother to be removed and raised in old-style orphanages run by well-trained and dedicated professionals. |
