06-22-2017, 10:00 PM
(06-22-2017, 09:27 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Are you really going to take the angle of "they are oppressed"? C'mon man, the laws and policies in today's society give Black Men more preference in opportunity than most Whites. The truth is that they choose to live the street life, hanging on to that "oppressed" moniker. For example, my wife was a public school teacher, in predominately Black schools for 12 years. She can attest to the times she heard a mother tell her "Why does my child need to learn this stuff? He/She is going to make their living on the street.". It's no wonder that she made the decision to take her skills to Child Protective Services, as now she is actually making bad parents accountable for their actions.
Back to my point, if those gang members wanted to be part of society, they could. There are measures in place to guarantee their opportunity to gain education, land jobs, be productive citizens. As ugly as it sounds, living on the street, making money from crime is just easier than working hard to be successful.
The anecdotal evidence you provide does nothing to discount the actual research and empirical evidence that has shown the black community still faces systemic hurdles in their progress and that it I see not just their community's choice to act in this manner.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
