Is African boarding school the answer for Indiana's inner-city kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black women don't seem to value that enough.

Thanks for speaking for every Black woman in America. I'll be sure to contact you to find out what else you know about me based on the color of my skin.

I am sure that when the demands are made, the men will be forced to deliver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We cannot blame slavery for our lack of emphasis on marriage and higher education, failure to use birth control, collective acceptance of sexual activity among children, and the resulting out-of-wedlock births and fatherless families.

I do not blame the availability of government benefits either. They do not affect people who are determined to educate themselves for good jobs and make smart choices in their personal lives rather than irresponsible ones.

O please, you do not seriously think that the inner city kids get equal opportunity to educate themselves as the private school priveledged children?
Like those kids have an equal number of options?

What choices can a child make under such circumstances? No matter how much you want to educate yourself, no matter how smart you are, you are sill the kid in the poorly performing school getting the 'gutter' education. Like some college is going to seriously want you, as if having no money is not an obstacle. And now you call them dumb.
You sound dumb.

so why is that african immigrants, who often go to those same schools, have the highest educational achievement in this country? they are certainly black, and often have language and cultural obstacles to overcome as well. and who makes up these inner city schools that are poor performers? they and their parents are blameless? I've tutored inner city kids that don't have a book in their homes. whose fault is that?

They don't really attend the same schools. African immigrants tend to be in more suburban areas, or cities with large numbers of immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. To clarify, I support class-based affirmative action because I believe that economic disadvantage puts children, no matter what their race or ethnicity, unfairly behind. But the link to slavery was not made in that context; the assertion was that slavery is to blame for the current pitiable state of the black family. It is not.

I am a black American woman born to married parents with advanced degrees. I was raised in an Atlanta suburb where there were many black folks like us. Yet, after graduating from high school I saw that many in my neighborhood who came from intact professional families goofed off, dropped out of school, got pregnant, etc. These were people who knew nothing of the ghetto. They had every opportunity but they made bad choices. And slavery has nothing to do with that.

Immigrants to this country, with few exceptions, are almost never the poorest of the poor in their own countries. The poorest cannot get visas to come legally or raise the money to pay smugglers and come illegally. Comparing Africans and Black Americans is indeed like comparing kiwis and oranges.

The only way that you would know that slavery was not the cause is to look for an identical model elsewhere, which does not exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slavery had a profound impact in other areas but as a black person I am asking you to please not bring it up when discussing the broken family structure. We cannot blame slavery for our lack of emphasis on marriage and higher education, failure to use birth control, collective acceptance of sexual activity among children, and the resulting out-of-wedlock births and fatherless families.

I do not blame the availability of government benefits either. They do not affect people who are determined to educate themselves for good jobs and make smart choices in their personal lives rather than irresponsible ones.

So if it's not the legacy of slavery, what's the cause?

[Anonymous]

Has anybody ever thought about inequalities in the school system?
Or how difficult it is for a person with no money to get a college education?

[Anonymous]

Saw a documentary about how black WWII vets were denied home loans under the GI Bill. White vets were able to buy a home, build up equity and save money for their kids' education and have more to pass onto their kids. The black vets had to rent where there were apartments and weren't able to save as much for their kids' education or have as much to pass onto their kids.