RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 25, 2018 at 5:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2018 at 5:24 am by bennyboy.)
Well, it's a clusterfuck, isnt' it? Drug use, incarceration, single parents, low educational achievement, low test scores, bad health care, bad diet, and teachers who are likely to be poor in at least some of those same categories. There's very little light at the end of the tunnel, unless all those problems are aggressively addressed.
And yes, a big part of it is cultural. Black kids have access to jazz, blues, and a lot of the greatest music and art that currently exists. But they're listening to rap, wearing their pants at their knees, and working for street cred like it matters.
This is the essence of the problem-- that culture, statistically speaking, doesn't really ALLOW real change from within, because ignorance is passed on from broken parent to broken child, and shared among peers. Rich white people therefore feel a responsibility to inject their world view into that broken culture. But the problem is that patronizing black people won't give the sense of pride and equality, those attitude changes that will affect behaviors-- it will reinforce the expectation of handouts, and the feeling that handouts are the only way to get ahead. No good comes of that world view.
The solution is as I described in another thread-- you have to give financial incentives for success in all those categories I talked about, and enable REAL success based on positive motivation and real effort: loans programs for entrepreneurs, scholarships for students who achieve results through good work, right from preschool. Make all benefits contingent on a demonstrated willingness to work hard and live productive lives.
And yes, a big part of it is cultural. Black kids have access to jazz, blues, and a lot of the greatest music and art that currently exists. But they're listening to rap, wearing their pants at their knees, and working for street cred like it matters.
This is the essence of the problem-- that culture, statistically speaking, doesn't really ALLOW real change from within, because ignorance is passed on from broken parent to broken child, and shared among peers. Rich white people therefore feel a responsibility to inject their world view into that broken culture. But the problem is that patronizing black people won't give the sense of pride and equality, those attitude changes that will affect behaviors-- it will reinforce the expectation of handouts, and the feeling that handouts are the only way to get ahead. No good comes of that world view.
The solution is as I described in another thread-- you have to give financial incentives for success in all those categories I talked about, and enable REAL success based on positive motivation and real effort: loans programs for entrepreneurs, scholarships for students who achieve results through good work, right from preschool. Make all benefits contingent on a demonstrated willingness to work hard and live productive lives.
