Anyone that makes issues about race is so ignorant it's pathetic. Please replace 'black' with 'poverty' It doesn't matter what color your skin is. If you are poor and do not have access to adequate resources it is very easy to fall into the trap of illegal activity. Furthermore, it is far easier to tell 'less informed' individuals what to think to perpetuate this utter b.s. (so they hurt themselves in the long run) Not bad, eh?
Not necessarily. At any given income level, whites have a leg up on blacks. Whether or not poverty is the independent variable is largely irrelevant if one is more likely to live in poverty if he's black.
same old bullshit I've been hearing for 20+ years....The fall back position that any objective assessment of race is "ignorant". Our side has all of the facts and data to defend its position. Your side is just a bunch of nonsensical "blame game" bullshit.
First, every kid, black, white or any other race has access to education. Education is the ticket out of poverty for poor kids. I've spoken many times to such kids about how others, just like them, received $500K or even $600K in college scholarships. I've also been in classrooms volunteering 13 years. I've spoken on career days. Some kids get it (that education is what they need to focus on). But the majority of them don't get it and are lazy in class and don't put forth a lot of effort. So they are laying the groundwork of what their life might become. These kids also have plenty of access to after school programs, free tutoring and other enrichment programs. My experience where 90% of the kids I've worked with are black and the rest mainly white or Hispanic is that blacks act out more in class and are less focused on academics. And the fact that almost 75% of them have no father in the home is correlated. People need to quit making excuses for irresponsible adults who bring kids into the world and then do nothing to support them or be a part of their life. And as far as making issues about race ... ask yourself WHY blacks commit 50% or more of the murders in the US but make up 12 - 13% of the population. And the statistics are similar in other areas such as robberies, crack dealing, etc. People make CHOICES .....
+1 With whites almost 7/10 of the time both parents are in the home. With blacks it's about 1/4. http://newsone.com/1195075/children-single-parents-u-s-american/ Even back in 2008 ..The proportion who lived with two parents varied widely by race and ethnicity — 87 percent of Asians, 78 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 68 percent of Hispanics and 38 percent of blacks.
The determining variable is not the number of parents in the home but poverty level. But Doh has his stump speech and it never varies.