Iverson_64
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Like with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
There's some things Black people do that ELEVATE the problems we have. Having kids out of wedlock is one thing but there's also the issue of Black men attacking and killing each other, drug usage, overspending, and a lack of value of education.
These are things that can be worked on to lessen the damage done to our communities.
That said, none of this is actually going to close in the racial wealth gap and many of our issues were engineered by the government or racism such as the The Tulsa Massacre, Crack Epidemic, no reparations paid out to us that the Jews and Japanese were able to get paid for ASAP, biases and discrimination in various job markets, disparities in the quality of food sources that affect health problems, disparity of educational resources, etc.
So, on the surface level, Killer Mike is right but his point more so serves the role of lessening the negativities we're faced with rather than tackling issues on a systemic or national level. Black Men have high enrollments in trades and Black women have high educational attainment so it's not as if this advice hasn't been implemented to a degree.
But his advice has more positive short term benefits rather than long term impact. It's great advice but, ultimately, won't lead to long term closure without government intervention. Black people had sky high poverty rates in the 1950's and 1960's during a time where we had the highest marriage rates in the country and high rates of small business ownership with less association with the street life and drugs which also goes to show that the ultimate root of the problem is systemic.
There's some things Black people do that ELEVATE the problems we have. Having kids out of wedlock is one thing but there's also the issue of Black men attacking and killing each other, drug usage, overspending, and a lack of value of education.
These are things that can be worked on to lessen the damage done to our communities.
That said, none of this is actually going to close in the racial wealth gap and many of our issues were engineered by the government or racism such as the The Tulsa Massacre, Crack Epidemic, no reparations paid out to us that the Jews and Japanese were able to get paid for ASAP, biases and discrimination in various job markets, disparities in the quality of food sources that affect health problems, disparity of educational resources, etc.
So, on the surface level, Killer Mike is right but his point more so serves the role of lessening the negativities we're faced with rather than tackling issues on a systemic or national level. Black Men have high enrollments in trades and Black women have high educational attainment so it's not as if this advice hasn't been implemented to a degree.
But his advice has more positive short term benefits rather than long term impact. It's great advice but, ultimately, won't lead to long term closure without government intervention. Black people had sky high poverty rates in the 1950's and 1960's during a time where we had the highest marriage rates in the country and high rates of small business ownership with less association with the street life and drugs which also goes to show that the ultimate root of the problem is systemic.
