Why the Black Family Structure is on Life Support

[GMOGMediaTV]

Heavy topic, check it out.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

divide and conquer

 

[Rawtid]

The black family structure is on life support because we continuously try to model it around the white family structure and I'm sorry they don't have it right either. Our biggest issue is poverty. Being poor doesn't give you many options

YES, a two parent household is wonderful and ideal but the majority of us won't experience that. Men are moving away from marriage. It's risky and people don't want to deal. The 2 parent household is going to be replaced, hopefully by multi-generational living which helps provide a financially sustainable household and opportunities that children need to succeed in life. Yes, absentee fathers and single mothers is an issue but the problem is tied directly to poverty in combination with those things. Black children being raised in a financially stable household, which in alot of cases means living with several family members, are fairing well. WE need to stop letting white people tell us our families NEED to be like theirs, when their shyt is just as fukked up.

With all that said, I didn't watch the video yet but I was just having this convo so I'll check it out and maybe I'll change my mind.

 

[Groanman]

It's like we all know what happened to us.
But most of our men and women choose to continue to live this way on purpose.

 

[Quest]

I just watched the video and had a few questions. Besides, death and prisons, why are their so many single parent homes? Also, I would think the child is still better off, if the father is still in the child's life, emotionally and money wise, than a home were there is abuse and chaos.

And, I guess the idea of marriage, has played out in the last few decades. I am not sure of the reason and these is on both the male and female.

Thanks, cool site.

 

[GMOGMediaTV]

I just watched the video and had a few questions. Besides, death and prisons, why are their so many single parent homes? Also, I would think the child is still better off, if the father is still in the child's life, emotionally and money wise, than a home were there is abuse and chaos.

And, I guess the idea of marriage, has played out in the last few decades. I am not sure of the reason and these is on both the male and female.

Thanks, cool site.

Economics!

As I stated in the video, children who live in lower income and/or poverty stricken area's have a higher risk of committing a crime and landing in prison because of a failed educational system, lack of job and trade resources etc.

Therefore when a woman who also lives in the same poverty stricken area, she meets the same guy who grew up in that area, procreates with him, they have a child out of wedlock and the child is another statistic in the system of white supremacy.

The child has more obstacles to overcome than another child who may have a 2-parent house hold living in a middle/upper middle class area.

Reference the links in the youtube description for statistical data.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

The black family structure is on life support because we continuously try to model it around the white family structure and I'm sorry they don't have it right either. Our biggest issue is poverty. Being poor doesn't give you many options

YES, a two parent household is wonderful and ideal but the majority of us won't experience that. Men are moving away from marriage. It's risky and people don't want to deal. The 2 parent household is going to be replaced, hopefully by multi-generational living which helps provide a financially sustainable household and opportunities that children need to succeed in life. Yes, absentee fathers and single mothers is an issue but the problem is tied directly to poverty in combination with those things. Black children being raised in a financially stable household, which in alot of cases means living with several family members, are fairing well. WE need to stop letting white people tell us our families NEED to be like theirs, when their shyt is just as fukked up.

With all that said, I didn't watch the video yet but I was just having this convo so I'll check it out and maybe I'll change my mind.

Some of this post reminds me of this PBS doc from like 2 years ago



There was another one that I was thinking of but I forgot the name

 

[GMOGMediaTV]

The black family structure is on life support because we continuously try to model it around the white family structure and I'm sorry they don't have it right either. Our biggest issue is poverty. Being poor doesn't give you many options

YES, a two parent household is wonderful and ideal but the majority of us won't experience that. Men are moving away from marriage. It's risky and people don't want to deal. The 2 parent household is going to be replaced, hopefully by multi-generational living which helps provide a financially sustainable household and opportunities that children need to succeed in life. Yes, absentee fathers and single mothers is an issue but the problem is tied directly to poverty in combination with those things. Black children being raised in a financially stable household, which in alot of cases means living with several family members, are fairing well. WE need to stop letting white people tell us our families NEED to be like theirs, when their shyt is just as fukked up.

With all that said, I didn't watch the video yet but I was just having this convo so I'll check it out and maybe I'll change my mind.

You pretty much stated what I said in the 1st portion of my video but I tied in some other key elements into the fall of the black family structure.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Somebody define "black family structure" and what it should be?

 

[MrPentatonic]

The black family structure is on life support because we continuously try to model it around the white family structure and I'm sorry they don't have it right either. Our biggest issue is poverty. Being poor doesn't give you many options

YES, a two parent household is wonderful and ideal but the majority of us won't experience that. Men are moving away from marriage. It's risky and people don't want to deal. The 2 parent household is going to be replaced, hopefully by multi-generational living which helps provide a financially sustainable household and opportunities that children need to succeed in life. Yes, absentee fathers and single mothers is an issue but the problem is tied directly to poverty in combination with those things. Black children being raised in a financially stable household, which in alot of cases means living with several family members, are fairing well. WE need to stop letting white people tell us our families NEED to be like theirs, when their shyt is just as fukked up.

With all that said, I didn't watch the video yet but I was just having this convo so I'll check it out and maybe I'll change my mind.

This is the type of house you are more likely to see in africa and asia, its common to have grand parents and uncles aunties all in the same house or area. Family and older guidance makes a world of difference.

"it takes a village to raise a child"

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

U.S. Department of Labor -- History -- The Negro Family - The Case for National Action
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At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

It is the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time.

There is probably no single fact of Negro American life so little understood by whites. The Negro situation is commonly perceived by whites in terms of the visible manifestation of discrimination and poverty, in part because Negro protest is directed against such obstacles, and in part, no doubt, because these are facts which involve the actions and attitudes of the white community as well. It is more difficult, however, for whites to perceive the effect that three centuries of exploitation have had on the fabric of Negro society itself. Here the consequences of the historic injustices done to Negro Americans are silent and hidden from view. But here is where the true injury has occurred: unless this damage is repaired, all the effort to end discrimination and poverty and injustice will come to little.

The role of the family in shaping character and ability is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked. The family is the basic social unit of American life; it is the basic socializing unit. By and large, adult conduct in society is learned as a child.

A fundamental insight of psychoanalytic theory, for example, is that the child learns a way of looking at life in his early years through which all later experience is viewed and which profoundly shapes his adult conduct.

It may be hazarded that the reason family structure does not loom larger in public discussion of social issues is that people tend to assume that the nature of family life is about the same throughout American society. The mass media and the development of suburbia have created an image of the American family as a highly standardized phenomenon. It is therefore easy to assume that whatever it is that makes for differences among individuals or groups of individuals, it is not a different family structure.

There is much truth to this; as with any other nation, Americans are producing a recognizable family system. But that process is not completed by any means. There are still, for example, important differences in family patterns surviving from the age of the great European migration to the United States, and these variations account for notable differences in the progress and assimilation of various ethnic and religious groups. A number of immigrant groups were characterized by unusually strong family bonds; these groups have characteristically progressed more rapidly than others.

But there is one truly great discontinuity in family structure in the United States at the present time: that between the white world in general and that of the Negro American.

The white family has achieved a high degree of stability and is maintaining that stability.

By contrast, the family structure of lower class Negroes is highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown.

 

[GMOGMediaTV]

U.S. Department of Labor -- History -- The Negro Family - The Case for National Action
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Yea that was the Moynihan report that I talked about in the video and the revisited article by Urban Institute and Fathers Incorporated.

 

[N711oir]

Back possibly 1968 when they where initiating a lot of these government assist programs and had the " no man in the house" clause where if you had an able bodied man in the home you couldn't receive any government help. So if a black man lost his job he would literally have to leave his home for his wife and kids to get help and assistance.

When you consider the fact that a white ex con in this country statistically has a better chance of getting a job than a black person with no criminal record
When I white high school drop out statistically has a better chance of getting a job

They have aggressively been at war with our community.
Look at your schools curriculum. What white parent you know would even consider sending there child to school with an all black curriculum? Where they learn only about black conquest black murderers? They have our kids believing rapist and savages like Columbus where good people
We hate on the "pawg" lovers here ( I'm not one ) but look at our school teachers across the country they are predominately white women

So in your young child's informative years when they look up to a parent naturally for love direction when they immolate everything they do. They are spending more time with these white women then their black parents or black instructors.
All I know is before they put me in the dirt I will have done my part to set sh!t straight muh f*ckas can take that however which way they like

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Back possibly 1968 when they where initiating a lot of these government assist programs and had the " no man in the house" clause where if you had an able bodied man in the home you couldn't receive any government help. So if a black man lost his job he would literally have to leave his home for his wife and kids to get help and assistance.

This doesn't exist. Never has. Just something you heard someone else say.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Somebody define "black family structure" and what it should be?

So nobody is gonna even attempt to do this?