"You don’t think people are shaped by their environments?"
Absolutely. What I see as the difference is how people spend their money. I met a comedian at a taco stand one time. He was part of a troop called "Two Beans & a Flip"—they're two Mexicans and a Filipino. He described how his wife—grew up a poor Filipina—whom he described as havin…
"You don’t think people are shaped by their environments?"
Absolutely. What I see as the difference is how people spend their money. I met a comedian at a taco stand one time. He was part of a troop called "Two Beans & a Flip"—they're two Mexicans and a Filipino. He described how his wife—grew up a poor Filipina—whom he described as having Getto mentality, improves herself by buying more jewelry. She adds value to herself in the form of flashy physical things that cost a lot. Me, I invest in knowledge things—I buy and read books—I spent much of my adult night-life in community college to advance my career prospects.
This is not an exclusive racial choice, I've had night-school classmates of all races, and I know white people who have getto mentality. This is why I believe people of color don't get ahead. Their society—family—taught them getto mentality. They seek to improve themselves by buying and displaying flashy things. Does getto mentality increase generational wealth? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I have three adult children, in their thirties. Two are well educated, the third is taking night classes to improve career prospects. This behavior model—perhaps expectations—I have provided to my children goes to increase generational wealth in my descendants, or my race as it were.
Is this systemic racism? No, this is intracultural behavior which precludes wealth accumulation.
Blaming this on systemic racism prevents seeing the real root cause.
I think Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas are great examples of black men whose family members who raised them helped them make all of those little decisions to get them where they are. Carson being raised by a single mother who challenged him and his rocket scientist brother despite being illiterate and Thomas who was raised by his grandfather in Pin Point, GA becoming a SCOTUS.
Black people in America have been systematically denied opportunities. That did not end in 1964. Soft racism persisted, and it still does, though it's improving rapidly right now. These people were literally herded into the worst parts of town. They were denied mortgages. They were disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. They were given harsher sentences. (Do you think incarcerating young black fathers is good for the family?) And, white people weren't comfortable hiring them because of their prejudices and unconscious biases. That's how we got here. It's important that white people understand it. Fortunately, that's happening, thanks to progressives.
Black people weren't 'literally herded' they bought where they could afford to buy. They chose to buy homes near black churches, and to live amongst other black people. Are you calling their preference racism?
Black children do poorer in school. I learned to read at home. If children can't learn to read before kindergarten, they're probably not going to read in school. Throwing money at it doesn't seem to help, because our schools are the worst performing schools on Earth, despite being the most heavily funded.
Black people aren't targeted by police for being black, but for being 6x more violent than white people. They're targeted for the crime not the color.
Look what happened when we started releasing convicts on a massive scale, a massive increase in the murder rate, mostly affecting black people. White cops don't kill very many black people, other black people are the overwhelming murderers of other black people. Incarcerating bad people keeps us all safe.
If you read up on James Q. Wilson's Broken Windows Theory and how it was implemented by William Bratton and Rudy Giuliani as a model for the rest of the nation, you would know that a lot of black folks who were never criminals and would never be criminals were targeted by police, not because of the color of their skin or membership in a racial cohort with a statistically higher propensity to commit crime - but rather because of the neighborhood they lived in.
That is just a fact.
From their standpoint, they did not appreciate being rousted.
I hope you can understand and sympathize with that.
Yes, I know of this. Police were doing Stop-n-Frisk on many innocent people in black neighborhoods. And when the courts stopped them, the murder rate skyrocketed.
"You don’t think people are shaped by their environments?"
Absolutely. What I see as the difference is how people spend their money. I met a comedian at a taco stand one time. He was part of a troop called "Two Beans & a Flip"—they're two Mexicans and a Filipino. He described how his wife—grew up a poor Filipina—whom he described as having Getto mentality, improves herself by buying more jewelry. She adds value to herself in the form of flashy physical things that cost a lot. Me, I invest in knowledge things—I buy and read books—I spent much of my adult night-life in community college to advance my career prospects.
This is not an exclusive racial choice, I've had night-school classmates of all races, and I know white people who have getto mentality. This is why I believe people of color don't get ahead. Their society—family—taught them getto mentality. They seek to improve themselves by buying and displaying flashy things. Does getto mentality increase generational wealth? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I have three adult children, in their thirties. Two are well educated, the third is taking night classes to improve career prospects. This behavior model—perhaps expectations—I have provided to my children goes to increase generational wealth in my descendants, or my race as it were.
Is this systemic racism? No, this is intracultural behavior which precludes wealth accumulation.
Blaming this on systemic racism prevents seeing the real root cause.
I think Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas are great examples of black men whose family members who raised them helped them make all of those little decisions to get them where they are. Carson being raised by a single mother who challenged him and his rocket scientist brother despite being illiterate and Thomas who was raised by his grandfather in Pin Point, GA becoming a SCOTUS.
Black people in America have been systematically denied opportunities. That did not end in 1964. Soft racism persisted, and it still does, though it's improving rapidly right now. These people were literally herded into the worst parts of town. They were denied mortgages. They were disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. They were given harsher sentences. (Do you think incarcerating young black fathers is good for the family?) And, white people weren't comfortable hiring them because of their prejudices and unconscious biases. That's how we got here. It's important that white people understand it. Fortunately, that's happening, thanks to progressives.
Black people weren't 'literally herded' they bought where they could afford to buy. They chose to buy homes near black churches, and to live amongst other black people. Are you calling their preference racism?
Black children do poorer in school. I learned to read at home. If children can't learn to read before kindergarten, they're probably not going to read in school. Throwing money at it doesn't seem to help, because our schools are the worst performing schools on Earth, despite being the most heavily funded.
Black people aren't targeted by police for being black, but for being 6x more violent than white people. They're targeted for the crime not the color.
Look what happened when we started releasing convicts on a massive scale, a massive increase in the murder rate, mostly affecting black people. White cops don't kill very many black people, other black people are the overwhelming murderers of other black people. Incarcerating bad people keeps us all safe.
Whoa there.....
If you read up on James Q. Wilson's Broken Windows Theory and how it was implemented by William Bratton and Rudy Giuliani as a model for the rest of the nation, you would know that a lot of black folks who were never criminals and would never be criminals were targeted by police, not because of the color of their skin or membership in a racial cohort with a statistically higher propensity to commit crime - but rather because of the neighborhood they lived in.
That is just a fact.
From their standpoint, they did not appreciate being rousted.
I hope you can understand and sympathize with that.
Yes, I know of this. Police were doing Stop-n-Frisk on many innocent people in black neighborhoods. And when the courts stopped them, the murder rate skyrocketed.