Five Bleak Facts on Black Opportunity

[Yup]

Nah I didn't mean to make it sound so simple. I know there's a lot to it.

I was just trying to say marriage or at least two people building together is a good way to build wealth

It is the best way to build wealth.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

You cant something as a community if there isnt a community.

There's plenty of black community.

The "community" is what got us this far. We have not had much help from elsewhere

 

[hatechall]

Nothing worth earning is easy.

Right. That's why the focus should be on public policy solutions, not personal or familial ones. Black people promote this idea that "family structure" is the root of our problems because they think it's an easy fix.

 

[Yup]

Right. That's why the focus should be on public policy solutions, not personal or familial ones. Black people promote this idea that "family structure" is the root of our problems because they think it's an easy fix.

It is a starting point.

 

[Poitier]

So that's it? Just go to college, get married and get wealthy. You all make it sounds so simple.

Married, educated Blacks still make far less than White counterparts. Anyone blaming culture or structure and not reparations is full of shyt.

 

[hatechall]

It is the best way to build wealth.

Most married black people are poor.

 

[Yup]

Married, educated Blacks still make far less than White counterparts. Anyone blaming culture or structure and not reparations is full of shyt.

How many Blacks marry?

 

[Poitier]

Simple

You can't build your own economy without your own currency.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Right. That's why the focus should be on public policy solutions, not personal or familial ones. Black people promote this idea that "family structure" is the root of our problems because they think it's an easy fix.

Our problem has always been education. Lack of it is how it is easy to continue with the divide of the haves and have nots. Lack of education begets ignorance. Even worse is what seems to be from time to time, a willful ignorance. The ghetto is not a place where your physical being rests, your mind is there as well as its a mentality.

Another thing, seemingly from what I've seen is lack of work ethic, moreso on men than women. I've taught collegiately for four years. In every single class, my top performer was a woman. Women usually outnumber men 3:1. I work in healthcare finance. I'm one of a few men here and one of three black men. The ratio to that is like 6:1, women to men. Men are getting left behind.

 

[hatechall]

It is a starting point.

If every single black person on the planet got married, and stayed married, we would still be poor.

 

[Yup]

You can't build your own economy without your own currency.

All of this is useless with a fractured community where kids are raised several generations with a single parent.

 

[Poitier]

Our problem has always been education.

Educated Blacks are still poor compared to White and Asian equivalence. They control the money and give it not on merit.

 

[Poitier]

All of this is useless with a fractured community where kids are raised several generations with a single parent.

Nope, structure comes from wealth.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Right. That's why the focus should be on public policy solutions, not personal or familial ones. Black people promote this idea that "family structure" is the root of our problems because they think it's an easy fix.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.
People are gonna be people.

It's policy/systemic decisions that place them where they are socially/economically

 

[Yup]

Nope, structure comes from wealth.

I disagree.