Agreed. Also time to take a hard look at those asking for help are putting in even the bare minimum on their end. Also, what do you do with those that refuse to help themselves. How do you separate the working with you, with the working against you.
One cycle I see is the broken record of returning to personal responsibility. It has been acknowledged. It has been addressed. It's past time to look at other factors.
Again. If it’s obviously building block number one and it’s getting zero response—how is it justified to move to another step if the bare ****ing minimum of being members of society isn’t met. How is that rational.
If you've tried one thing and it didn't fix everything... why look at other things? Really?
You are so quick to dismiss people’s inability to do the bare minimum, and in the next breath chastise those willing to work with the aforementioned if they could show a hint of initiative. You help those that help themselves. There is no rationale to your thinking.
The black community needs positive male role models. We have an issue when 54% of African-American children are raised in single-parent homes. It's not to say that black women are incompetent or incapable. But bearing the load of a 40 hour work week, plus meals, plus dishes/laundry, plus helping out with homework, plus taking the kids to extracurricular activities. Not sure how anyone could be fully invested in their kids if they're constantly taking care of the physical needs.. When there's a lack of emotional investment, and certainly single parent homes are at a much higher risk, then kids are much more likely to get involved in risky behavior...
The statistics for kids living without a father is overwhelming. They comprise 63% of youth suicides, 90% of runaways, 85% of behavioral disorders, 70% of juveniles in detention rates, 71% of high school dropouts, 75% of substance abusers, and 71% of pregnant teens ... all this coming from fatherless children.
If the biological father is not taking an active role in life of his child, then there needs to be some sort of alternative male role model. The most likely choice would be the stepfather. But it could also be another relative, a neighbor, a teacher, or a coach. Boys are wrecking machines. These kids need to learn how to be men, how to treat women, how to be disciplined.
Checkout the graphs below.. It's almost like there's a negative correlation between single parent homes and educational achievement. Shocking, right?
Average SAT Scores (Via College Board):
Asian: 1181
White: 1118
Hispanic: 990
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 986
Native American: 963
African-American: 941
It could be argued that crack has been the most damaging thing to the black community. I am not removing all fault from the war on drugs. But drugs destroy more lives and impede more progress than the war on drugs. Yet, we always seem to talk about one and not the other.
What I am dismissing is the idea that most people haven't already done everything within their own means to deal with it themselves. It's like an emergency room intake doc advising someone to try stopping the bleeding themselves first... and then offering the exact same advice a second time.
Drug use is almost identical across races. Only black communities are being torn apart by drugs. That has a lot to do with deliberate targeting of black communities.
That first sentence is tin foil hat material.
This is an understatement. You could keep going: it has contributed to the trend of absent black fathers, black poverty, racial profiling, white flight, health problems, poor school performance, poor school quality, housing discrimination, predatory lending, and more.
If you think only black communities are being torn apart, you are out of your mind.
This is a much more reasonable post. Still one sided, but better.
If its Not important enough to make the first step themselves, how effective could any other measure be? How does it not reinforce that their actions are acceptable. What I find almost universal across the new progressive line of thinking is the simple fact that the majority who bang this drum always ask others to do what they are unwilling to do themselves.
The black community needs positive male role models. We have an issue when 54% of African-American children are raised in single-parent homes. It's not to say that black women are incompetent or incapable. But bearing the load of a 40 hour work week, plus meals, plus dishes/laundry, plus helping out with homework, plus taking the kids to extracurricular activities. Not sure how anyone could be fully invested in their kids if they're constantly taking care of the physical needs.. When there's a lack of emotional investment, and certainly single parent homes are at a much higher risk, then kids are much more likely to get involved in risky behavior...
The statistics for kids living without a father is overwhelming. They comprise 63% of youth suicides, 90% of runaways, 85% of behavioral disorders, 70% of juveniles in detention rates, 71% of high school dropouts, 75% of substance abusers, and 71% of pregnant teens ... all this coming from fatherless children.
If the biological father is not taking an active role in life of his child, then there needs to be some sort of alternative male role model. The most likely choice would be the stepfather. But it could also be another relative, a neighbor, a teacher, or a coach. Boys are wrecking machines. These kids need to learn how to be men, how to treat women, how to be disciplined.
Checkout the graphs below.. It's almost like there's a negative correlation between single parent homes and educational achievement. Shocking, right?
Average SAT Scores (Via College Board):
Asian: 1181
White: 1118
Hispanic: 990
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 986
Native American: 963
African-American: 941
So tell me how you are so oppressed.
If you mean the current opioid epidemic and the effect of drug abuse on communities, okay, but as it relates to the War on Drugs, black communities have been disproportionately damaged, considering approximate equality in rate of drug use.
Clarification: Drug abuse harms people pretty equally; the War on Drugs disproportionately destroys black neighborhoods.
I don’t believe you and I don’t believe it’s happening on any meaningful or measurable level. Link me something to change my mind.
You can thank Reganomics and his shite policies for that. His WoD is so ****ing laughable. If only Ronny were still alive to get his dong stroked by Jeff Sessions.
I don't blame the dealer for the user's addiction. I blame the dealer for exploiting and benefiting from their addictions. I think simple possession should not result in jail time, ever. I think people should be placed into programs that help them with their addictions instead of having convictions that go on their record making it harder for them to succeed further in life even after they have bettered themselves. I stop supporting that when their issues become habitual, though.
On the first bold, what do you mean? Peripheral issues like theft to support a habit? Increasingly strict measures for "repeat" addicts?
On the first. I mean that if someome is given another chance through a program that gives them help without having a conviction on their record and they continue to get arrested for the same thing, I think they should be charged and convicted. I still support putting them in rehab type facilities over jail.
Yeah, eventually tougher measures have to be taken. I agree completely on the first, especially the (involuntary) rehab over jail part.
Mexicans were the primary reason mj became illegal. Nothing to do with stealing jobs.
Does personal responsibility go both ways, or is it onesided? One side holds out hand , other side hands over? How does this personal responsibility thing work?
