“Wrap-around services.” Do you agree this is the problem?
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Anonymous
True. Visit the African-American museum. The fact is, dads in the home, discipline, accountability, and learning right from wrong, are all aspects of white Supremacy. |
Anonymous
Try again. Explain to me what exactly is "white supremacist" being a good parent? Family and being good parents is a long standing tradition in Africa going back long before the white man. What exactly is "white supremacist" about holding people accountable for behaving badly? That is also a long standing tradition in Africa going back long before the white man. What exactly is "white supremacist" about knowing right from wrong? That is also a long standing tradition in Africa going back long before the white man. |
Anonymous
Those are not "white supremacist" concepts. As an example, the West African Empire of Mali had a Constitution and codified civil laws 800 years ago, long before the white man colonized, as a system of accountability and right and wrong. Elders and griots taught right and wrong and family values. Tribal circles would hear and adjudicate crimes and allegations in the way that courts and juries do today. There were many systems in place throughout Africa long before the white man. It is really strange and frankly displays a bigotry of low expectations for people to suggest those are all purely alien inventions of the white man that were imposed on Africa or that blacks somehow shouldn't be part of it. The way that the white man did it was different, but the concepts are not. |
Anonymous
This is not credible. It would constitute an infantilization of African Americans. |
Anonymous
This will work better than wrap around services. I can't find the reference, but remember seeing that a small number of bad people actually commit most of the crimes. Leaving the bad people in their communities harms the good people who live there, and degrades the culture of the community as a whole. Get kids who commit violent crimes out. I guarantee you they terrorize smart kids and make it harder to excel in school. Break up the drunk/high loiterers on the street. They suppress the economic vitality of the neighborhood. |
Anonymous
You sound like a person who has so deeply ingrained her racist beliefs, that she does not see how racist she is. |
Anonymous
Wrong. The government is not responsible for its citizens at all. It's responsibility is to "establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". That's the US Constitution btw. Nothing in there about backstopping citizens cradle to grave. |
Anonymous
Did you read the bolded? The framers wrote that and left it intentionally broad, and it encompasses a whole range of thing of benefit to the nation as a whole, such as schools and education, infrastructure, social programs and so on. Hamilton argued that broad interpretation which viewed spending as an enumerated power Congress could exercise independently to benefit the general welfare, such as to assist national needs in agriculture or education, provided that the spending is general in nature and does not favor any specific portion of the country over any other and that Hamiltonian view is what has generally been upheld in the courts. https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/to-promote-the-general-welfare/ |
Anonymous
More likely they are in the on the grift and the faux "caring" is a deflection. |
Anonymous
+1 The problem is that these people are practically illiterate so discussing ideas is impossible. |