Reply to A serious question for my fellow Black DCUMers

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "A serious question for my fellow Black DCUMers"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I'm white but I was a teacher in SE and I agree with others who have said there is no epidemic of somehow irredeemable young black men. They're just young men. Kids are the same everywhere.

I agree that childhood stress and poor parenting (for a host of reasons) contribute to why more kids in some neighborhoods end up committing crimes (including whole swaths of white America, but different crimes with different consequences). When that combines with a microculture of young men AND WOMEN who 
a) don't believe that there's a path to success for them in mainstream culture, because they've given up on school or been incarcerated and they can't envision themselves in a good job with a stable life in the future 
b)buy into an alternate culture where they can achieve a sense of self worth even if it's based on crime/violence 
c)feel desperation/hopelessness
d)become extremely geographically/culturally isolated

that's when you get violent crime problems that aren't directly related to economic incentives (e.g. muggings or profitable criminal enterprise (a lot of it isn't really profitable)). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics