They have the ability to still succeed because they have seen everyone around them make overwhelmingly good decisions their whole life and have been expected to make good decisions themselves. Poor decisions are not accepted or condoned. So even if they are handed a few bad cards along the way their good decision making will get them back on track.
Where systematic racism comes in is that life will typically hand a black kid more bad cards than it will to a white kid (all other things equal). Not an overwhelmingly large amount more, but a few more. And when youāre a poor kid stuck in the cycle of poverty (white or black) each of those bad cards has a much larger impact and is much harder to overcome than if you were a kid from a privileged background.
Basically, for a black person in America to be succesful in todays world, there is an overwhelming liklihood that someone in the past 2-3 generations had to break the cycle of poverty. For a white person in america to be succesful there is a less than 50% chance of someone in the past 2-3 generations having broken the cycle of poverty.
IMO, the root of the problem is poverty and the culture of poverty. But we also cannot ignore why poverty affects Black folks at a much higher rate than white folks.
And none of the various social programs has helped, the results, or lack thereof, speak for themselves.
Of course it is the result of racism but what can we do? End slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and pass a civil rights law? We already have while also introducing affirmative action.
Too many people are looking for racism while ignoring the effects of racism. So we have statues being attacked while inner city kids still canāt read.
Does someone with cancer want his doctor to spend time figuring out why he has cancer or trying to cure his cancer?
Telling folks to fix their own communities by fixing their own households isnt going to go over well. Especially coming from an outsider. That would require a wholesale change in peoples outlook. Part of the culture of poverty is to never take responsibility, and always look to place blame elsewhere. I believe that we, as a society, owe it to the less fortunate amongst us that grew up and are embedded in that cyclical culture to try to effect positive change. Its a question of how.
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By schools doing what parents are supposed to do such as teach values and morals. Teach accountability instead of enabling. Not being afraid to tell kids how they live is wrong. Not being afraid to tell them not to be like their parents. On the one hand, everyone agrees that inner city culture needs to change but on the other hand they donāt want to be judgmental because of feelings. You canāt tell a kid being on welfare is bad but at the same time, you donāt want him to grow up and be on welfare.
Where my wife used to teach they had a meeting with a student and her parents. One thing that came up was the girl had an issue with a group of other girls. One of the other girls wanted to fight her but she told the school because she didnāt want to fight. She did what the kids call snitching. When her parents found out they didnāt praise her for not fighting but instead got mad that she didnāt fight. Keep in mind the other girl had a bunch of friends with her. What do you do as a principal or teacher at that point? Scold the parents for being ghetto or let it go? I have seen teachers and administrators cower before the worst parents and people. I donāt get it.
I donāt get it either, but the one thing that comes to mind immediately is they may be afraid that if they say something theyāll lose their job. At least in my brotherās school district, if you are fired you are not hireable at other districts. Essentially permanent blacklist, even if youāre in the right. If thatās the case elsewhere then I can understand their predicament.
I think we still have things to do outside of cultural change. I think we still have some disadvantages baked into things like rental laws, and those can be changed. I think that changes to police enforcement are needed. I think a big impact would be criminal justice reform in a way that we protect society, but we donāt give long sentences just to punish someone disproportionate to the crime.
I also think right now that the government should invest in infrastructure. Hire lots of people from all over. Bring unemployment down, give people valuable experience and invest in the future. Maybe a national high speed train, green energy, city light rail systems.
However, I think those will be a small impact compared to cultural change.
Thatās messed up, I have never heard of any parents acting like that with a girl. I wonder how they would feel if their daughter was badly beaten, maybe permanent injuries. Quite likely the other girls would have jumped in too. If thatās how her parents feel then they should be beating up those girls themselves.
Black on white violence in Australia, yesterday very similar. A 16 yo white girl, by herself, and sitting down at a bus stop, iIs brutally attacked, oh I mean culturally enriched by 8 black, Sudanese, possibly muslim girls(at least one was wearing a muslim headscarf).
Multiple times, brutally, broad daylight, no one did anything to stop it.
The girl is too scared to report it to Police. The police are refusing to investigate, despite it all being recorded and put online by the perpetrators.
Absolutely no coverage by the mainstream media, not a peep.
If you want to check it out search Avi Yemini, TRnews on YouTube, āWhy are they hiding this violent attack from you?ā
Why, because she is afraid of more retaliation. Have you actually seen the video? Watch it if you havenāt. The police say they canāt press charges because there needs to be a statement to the police made by the āallegedā victim. There is nothing else going on here, but political influence of pro multi culti willing to sacrifice an innocent white girl on the altar of multiculturalism. The police deny there is a problem with African youths, despite evidence from the last 5 years that says otherwise. Home invasions, car jacking, swamping of stores that are practically looted, assaults, gang brawls. Its not just white people being targeted by these thugs, Asians are targeted too.
One of the other 3 founders is Alicia Garza. Her spouse:
"In 2003 she met Malachi Garza, 24, who was a transsexual man and a community activist. "
This explains a lot. Perhaps more people need to look at whatās going on beyond the phrase āblack lives matterā, and how many millions were killed by Marxist ideology.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and āvillagesā that collectively care for one another
Also the main issue they are fighting for in Toronto is to ban the police from the gay pride parade. What does any of this have to do with stopping police brutality against black people? Itās a communist movement.
See all the stuff that @zecarlo is talking about, getting people out of the cycle of poverty and making positive changes in their community. Is eliminating two parent families and pushing LGBT ideology on people going to help that in any way?
My understanding of ādisrupting the western prescribed nuclear family structureā is that it simply means making it acceptable to have a family not made up of a straight father, and straight motherā¦ eg having two mothers or fathers, or trans parents etc. there is no āeliminatingā two parent families either, it is accepting and supporting the reality of single parent families. Pushing LGBT ideology on people is good IMO, just like pushing racial equality ideology on folks was good.
Is this the best way to go about improving POCs experience in our society? I dont necessarily think so. But that doesnt mean it isnt improving the situation either. Just because its not the best solution doesnt mean its badā¦ im sure thereās a fun southern country saying to that effect haha.
That is how I interpret it too. However, it is very sloppy in the language used. It can be interpreted many different ways. Their repeated use of the word sanction is an incorrect use of the word at best (assuming the author did not understand the meaning of the word), but more likely a lie.
It appears to me that parts of the writing are meant to get the opposition fired up when they read it.
Possibly you are correct. I am fairly liberal in my positions, and I am a straight white male. At the same time reading their values I feel a bit attacked.
I take the position that we should treat everybody as equals. However, I inferred from their values that I should almost be taken a notch below others with diversity since I am a straight white male.
They would argue that you feel attacked because for the first time, you, as a straight white male are not being prioritized first and given the benefit of the doubt. Personally i agree that a lot of the language seems phrased in a way to frame straight white males in the negative. But, maybe that is my subconscious being defensive, IDK.
My gender/sex/race/etc neutral go-by is: āDonāt be an assholeā. Seems to have worked well for me so far, so ill just continue on with it.