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White Privilege
This one is for those who believe the issue in Ferguson and elsewhere is race and not socio-economic class. I offer a little food for thought:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/charles-blow-bill-oreilly-and-white-privilege.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/charles-blow-bill-oreilly-and-white-privilege.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
Keep your stinkin' government hands off my Medicare.
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I believe you.
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Does emphasizing a sense of victimization and anger have a role in restraining progress? Regardless, what policies will work?
The permanent underclass has so little hope that it stifles the ambitions of those trying to join mainstream America. It's probably too late to do much about the vast majority of them. Early education programs might conceivably help future generations, but property tax based school funding in an era of tax resistance does not offer much cause for optimism. I have no solutions, only awareness of some of the issues involved.
We saw the traditional approach in Ferguson. There has to be a better way.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39993685/ns/health-womens_health/t/blacks-struggle-percent-unwed-mothers-rate/#.U_--L8UvUaM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/26/black-single-mothers-biggest-impediment_n_3818824.html
Aldo Leopold
I thought you were going to blame Bush.
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No it is because black people are morally and intellectual deficient and inferior to white people. That is the only possible answer.
You keep saying that.
You want Whitey instead of White?
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I did. Once you pointed it out I was too ashamed to leave it there to torment you. (blushes)
But there has got to be more it than this. It took me a long time to find this, but I remember having a similar discussion some years ago with one of my buddies who was (since changed jobs) a sociology professor. We talked about black marriage rates over time and he informed me that during the late 1800s and early 190s blacks had a higher marriage rate than whites. This changed dramatically during the 1970s/80s. So the unwed black birth rates has not been an issue since slavery times.
Unfortunately I can't seem to cut and paste from the link so here it is:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/marriage/data/acs/ElliottetalPAA2012presentation.pdf
See the marriage rates near the very end of the presentation
Now I am not trying to say that unwed birth rates have nothing to do with it. I agree that is a huge problem. But that problem has been a much more recent problem than back in the days of slavery. In addition the unwed birth rates, while I agree are much higher with blacks, they are also very high with Hispanics and are also becoming quite numerous by whites. Again, these problems are rooted more in the 1970 and 80s though.
I love a story with a happy ending!
Thanks for posting that.
Aldo Leopold