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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that nobody deserves to be hit but the suggestion that behavioral problems in young boys today are BECAUSE of racism or punishment is totally back-assward.

You want to know why there's a disproportionate number of young black boys being disciplined or ending up behind bars?  You wonder why profiling happens?  It's because a disproportionate amount of the problems in society are being caused by young black men.  That's what the data shows.

While it may sound like a reasonable equivalence argument to point out that it's disproportionate relative to percentage of the population, the statistics unfortunately do not lie and there really isn't any equivalence.

And, this is not a chicken-or-egg thing, nor is it a "blame society" thing.  There are societal expectations for behavior, there are actions (the misbehavior) and there are consequences (discipline).  The consequences are not the cause of the action.

The way to fix it before it happens is to clearly lay out the expectations, and map out the escalation and the interventions and consequences at each level and hold to it.  I think part of the problem is a lack of effective interventions, a lack of personal accountability, and a lack of value as to why any of this is important or meaningful.[/quote]

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