(July 10, 2019 at 3:36 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(July 10, 2019 at 2:48 pm)Drich Wrote: because it is always best to read what you want into one of 4 citations (that include the black wall street times) and then assume the worst.. you people kill me with how you are trained to race bait each other look for key words and stop thinking for yourselves and assume the worst..
how about this why don't you post the section that seem out of sorts to you just cut and paste. rather than make a sweeping dismissal of 4 sources that all say the same thing without any real evidence of any impropriety!
Who’s dismissing anything? I just said I haven’t read the other three articles yet. I have two kids to care for, ya know. As far as the first one goes, the author’s hypothesis seems to be ‘poor black communities are poor because their families are broken, and their families are broken because black ladies just wanna have babies out of wedlock.’ In fact, that’s really the closest she comes to attributing any sort of cause to the high incidence of children born into single-parent homes in these communities. “Because they just want to” as an explanation is not only a blanket assumption, it would be difficult, if not impossible to test. She also fails to mention other factors that likely contribute to children growing up fatherless, like the disproportionately high incarceration rates and lengthy prison sentences of black men in this country. At the end of the day, correlation doesn’t equal causation. Are many poor, black families broken because of cyclic poverty and disadvantage, or is there cyclic poverty and disadvantage in black communities because they tend not to have cohesive family structures? Or, is even that question an oversimplification of the issue framed in as false dichotomy? All I know is, ‘they don’t marry before having kids because that’s just how black folk are’ is a pretty racist hypothesis, IMO.
Here’s the exact quote:
Quote:But the truth was that underclass girls often wanted to have babies; they didn’t see it as a problem that they were young and unmarried. They did not follow the middle-class life script that read: protracted adolescence, college, first job, marriage—and only then children. They did not share the belief that children needed mature, educated mothers who would make their youngsters’ development the center of their lives. Access to birth control couldn’t change any of that.
That’s an awful lot of broad-brushing and unverifiable, racist assumptions right there.
You do know identifying a common social trait or a common social fault is not racism. racism is when you use such a trait to isolate or discriminate against a whole people. This study only points out the reason why people without fathers tend fail in this society. Again by the numbers because there are more white people, more white men experience this problem, but because even though a larger number of white men are affect a smaller percentage of the total population adopt this practice.
However because a larger percentage of the black community has adopted this social model higher percentage of males in that community are subject to this study's findings.
Again look which who dominates our prisons. Men with out fathers (white men without father first then black men without fathers.)
This truth is not limited to black people however a larger portion of the black population has adopted this as a social norm for their community which results in a more pronounced failure to meet social prosperity.. Again by the numbers alone more whites experience this problem than black people, and live in similar if not worse conditions. However this larger number only represents a fraction of the total number of white people. where as a smaller number of actual black people represent a far greater percentage of the whole community living in the US.
