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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's this community vs. community stuff? What we need is people who we're potentially losing to harm, requiring resources to make it through life, transformed into productive citizens. Now, it's worth understanding what people's problems are so that we can treat them, but blame and telling people their cultures are inferior doesn't do that. [/quote]

I think the original point was that all we really have heard about re culture and schools for 40 years is how AA families have high divorce rates or low marriage rates or some other BS numbers.  And the reason we hear about AA stats is that conservatives like Reagan and Murdoch figured out that they could get white votes by demonizing AAs.  (To be fair Bill Clinton did a tiny amount of this too.  But it is 99% a rightwing problem, and this selective demonization of minorities created the current president.  But that’s another story.)

In response to the BS stats about AA families, someone chimed in to say you could find stats about white evangelical families that make them look bad too (presumably saying we don’t hear about them because conservatives don’t want to talk about that.)  Then another PP chimed in to say it’s not just Christians, many extremist religions are similar.

Anyway, the  upshot is: stop blaming AAs via rightwing talking points.  We’re all in this together and frankly some white communities have problems just as large.  Let’s try to encourage everyone to focus on education and provide them the support they need without any jealousy.[/quote]

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