By not qualifying his statement with "a lot" or "most" or "some," the implication is that he meant all. Furthermore, if he didn't mean all then there is no premise for this thread. At the very least he is saying that the overwhelming majority of black parents are bad... but the reality is the same could apply to American parents of any race. His opinion of what makes a bad parent is one based primarily in HIS OWN opinion of what a good parent should do. Working for "the white man" can make people millioniares and put them into position to allow their children to build. But apparently he wants to skip that step. Wealth isn't created out of thin air. If my parents didn't work for "the white man" and "the white government" I wouldnt have been provided with the same opportunities I have now (like free healthcare until 26. Now my mother is a retired VP bank branch manager and my step dad is a government contractor after serving 30 years in the military. Now maybe I can start my own business because of them... and that's just ONE of the flaws in his argument. Fl
All of my friends growing up have what I'd consider good parents except for 1. All black. They are now a lawyer, a doctor, a PA, a Health Director at a hospital, an Assistant AD at a D-1 school, a social worker and an E6 in the military... and we all went to the worst high school in our city with a 70% black population.
Sidenote: My mother was a single parent at one point as well. Luckily my step father wasn't a coli member or my mother would have had to work twice as hard to give us the same opportunities.
sir, stop it. you know very well that if a person makes a general statement and the shyt doesn't apply to you, you aren't offended by it.
If someone came out right now and said "black people are poor" im black, im not poor, that shyt doesnt bother me because it doesn't apply to me.
He's saying that the overwhelming majority of black parents are bad, because news flash, they are. All i gotta do is go to west philly and see kids running around unsupervised, while their mom is out clubbing or doing whatever but not raising their kids. These type of situations are extremely common and not just in west philly, in north philly, southwest, baltimore, chicago, your hood, and every other hood the same bullshyt is going on.
You can keep trying to pretend that the stats dont show blacks in last place in every good statistical category all you want, while i'll continue to adress it and do my best not to end of being just another statistic.
Your comments about working for white people are true, I don't disagree.
Still cant ignore the fact 27.4% of blacks are living in poverty compared to just 9.9% of whites, 13% of asians so how can we apply this samething to all american parents like you stated above?
so how many black parents out there are like yours? not many at all and it's a shame because there needs to be more.
Alot of facts support drx's claims so it is a very educated opinion and so he can make generalizations based upon research that points in that very direction...
sidenote: Poverty rates for Black families vary based on the family type. While
23% of all Black families live below the poverty level
only 8% of Black married couple families live in poverty which is considerably lower than the
37% of Black families headed by single women who live below the poverty line. The highest poverty rates
(46%) are for Black families
with children which are headed by
single Black women. This is significant considering more than half
(55%) of all Black families with children are headed by single women.
August 1.
Holy shyt! 