I Have Lived One Year In My Cities Poorest Neighborhood; This is what I have seen

G-50 wrote:

All you have done are post the myriad of excuses that people use to fail.

You can try to tie everything back to lack of education and bad schools, but the schools are not the root of the problem.

The real problem are the people who say "Whats the point" -- they have already given up on themselves if they can't see the value of an education, even if it is not the best education possible. A high school diploma is still better than none, no matter the status of the school.

This is a personal, individual decision that this person has made to fail -- often abetted and accepted by parents, friends, relatives, and any other who don't urge or compel this student to stay in school and graduate.

I'm tired of hearing the excuses for why people fail.

You sound like one of those fake "pull yourself up by your bootstrap" republicans. Saying it is a individual decision to fail is simplistic. Your total environment and how you were raised as a child form your thought process. If you truely believed a bad environment is an EXCUSE, then you would be the type of person who didnt care what their child did. It would be OK for your child to be around drug dealers and thugs, see their mother screw different men daily, not go to school, smoke weed, have babies, etc. In your "no excuses" world, all that wouldnt matter because life is only about individual decision making.

In reality, you are probably very concerned about who your children hang out with, what type of environment they are raised in, making sure they dont do drugs, making sure they get a good education and so on. ITS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THOSE THINGS WILL SHAPE A CHILDS FUTURE. A child has to be 10x as strong as a normal child to shake that "ghetto" mindset.

Look how many little white kids fall apart when something as simple as their parents getting a divorce happens. For the most part, white kids could NEVER handle the shit these minority kids go through.

i believe it is cultural. it is cool for them to be a "gangsta." I would not hire someone who had their pants on the ground or who did not talk with proper english. I do not think it would help my business. if they acted professionally I would definitely give them a job.

For some reason Asians, Indians, Arabs and Eastern Europeans have come to this country and were able to break this vicious cycle despite not originally knowing English. Black people have had this advantage yet they still remain in poverty.

Liberalism and welfare have created a culture of dependency and single mother households. 70% of black children are born to a single mother (30% to other races). End welfare ... there would be some pain, but it would make poor people more self-reliant and climb the economic ladder.

anytime you have a large number of black the place will eventually look like africa. a total break down of community, infrastucture, government, etc..

name one place that's a majority black population that doesn't lead the nation in every bad stat in the book: crime, drop outs, poor test scores, corruption, etc..

runnahh wrote:

name one place that's a majority black population that doesn't lead the nation in every bad stat in the book: crime, drop outs, poor test scores, corruption, etc..

Given that only one place could possibly lead the nation in every bad stat in the book (you do know what the word "lead" means, right?), I imagine that nearly every place with a majority black population does not lead the nation in every bad stat.

have you seen? wrote:

Have you seen anyone that can teach you the proper use of an apostrophe?

Have you seen anyone WHO can teach you the proper use of an apostrophe. I'm just saying.

Yes, I have. Why do you ask?

i think the OP might be onto something...would be an interesting book on his life in the hood for a year. i know i'd read it. kind of a journal/fact stating social commentary sprinkled with personal opnions and musings based on personal experience.

Kozol's Savage Inequality deals with the educational side of it

Rational Sociology wrote:

The OP is horribly mistaken. Schooling doesn't make a person intelligent, ambitious, responsible, or even functionally literate. The primary cause of poverty is stupidity, i.e. low intelligence, and this cannot be improved by schooling. People usually end up in poverty because they are stupid and poor areas are just areas with high concentrations of stupid people. No amount of throwing money down the educational toilet will fix the problem.

people like you make me afraid for society.

if you go to school in the suburbs even the dumbest, least ambitious, troublemaking kids graduate and go on to college. no one gives up on them. it doesn't matter how many times they screw up. hell, if they stop showing up, the authorities will hunt them down. once you're in the cycle of middle class suburbia it is virtually impossible to fail. there is very little socioeconomic mobility here and just about everywhere else in the world. study both cycles and you'll have a better idea.

have you seen? wrote:

Yes, I have. Why do you ask?

I'm calling you out on your grammar - you seem to be correcting the OP's grammar, but in your post you used incorrect grammar. Seems that is worthy of a correction. Everyone loves poking holes in a hypocrite.

...If you would like to make a difference please forward this to 10 people. Bill Gates and a prince in the middle wast will donate 1 cent for every time it is passed on.

Blah, blah, blah. Dude, I have lived in the ghetto, and I went to college and got a degree. Got a job and am am fine. Yes there is a cycle there for some, others its a choice.

I'm no savior wrote:

Forgive any misspellings, incoherency, ramblings or lack of details...I have no energy to edit this, so do what you will with it.

You are poorly educated and lazy.

I'm not disagreeing with you (despite your ad hominem attacks), but with should a party with this view (or understanding, since I agree on the importance of environment) support the legalisation of marijuana? It seems like proponents of that use the opposite argument.

Sorry to digress, kindly continue the main discussion.

nerp wrote:

UncleB wrote:

[quote]Rational Sociology wrote:

"The primary cause of poverty is stupidity, i.e. low intelligence".

You must be the poorest MFer on Sesame Street.

Why does it always have to be personal UncleB? I know you're a troll, but most of the people in here are trying to have an actual discussion, not just a flame war. Bring a point to the table, not personal insults.

I hate to sound four years old, but the other guy started it. He had nothing to add to the discussion other than to make a close minded statement about the stupidity of the poor. Boo hoo is he gets insulted back. Rational Sociology is a troll or an idiot.

blah blah blah wrote:

runnahh wrote:

name one place that's a majority black population that doesn't lead the nation in every bad stat in the book: crime, drop outs, poor test scores, corruption, etc..

Given that only one place could possibly lead the nation in every bad stat in the book (you do know what the word "lead" means, right?), I imagine that nearly every place with a majority black population does not lead the nation in every bad stat.

ha ha so you couldn't disagree with what I said, you got all outta whack over semantics. Look retard, cities that are majority black lead in all the bad stats, Detroit, East StL, ATL, Memphis, etc...

I am always skeptical of the lower IQ or lower intelligence argument.

There may be some statistical accuracy to the argument, but leading a happy and productive life can be attributed to so much more than IQ.

Here's what I think is the case - people (mostly minority) stuck in these communities have a much slimmer margin for error. By this I mean that poor decisions come back to haunt them and really set them back. This is why I am very cautious of those that lower objective standards for people who live in these communities - not because of a pull them up by the bootstraps mentality but rather because there is a cognitive dissonance about the negative externalities that accrue to these folks when they make bad decisions. Even a small run in with the law can be disastrous. Access to competent lawyers is nil, and a caring network of people generally do not wait in the background to persuade a judge recidivism isn't in the offing. Is this fair? No. But there is little other choice but to encourage better decisions - they don't recover from bad ones like middle class people do.

I do think we need to look at the costs of some of our social welfare programs. They need to be incentive based. The programs of the 60's and 70's made men in these communities not only irrelevant - but actually unwanted. What a disaster - because a culture that encourages men to father children and abandon them or play no part in their lives will simply be one that implodes.

I'm no savior wrote:

Forgive any misspellings, incoherency, ramblings or lack of details; Frankly, there is so much to say on the issue, I have only scratched the surface. I have no energy to edit this, so do what you will with it.

No.

Even if it was available, lack of education

Even if it were available, ...

agip wrote:

I'm calling you out on your grammar - you seem to be correcting the OP's grammar, but in your post you used incorrect grammar. Seems that is worthy of a correction. Everyone loves poking holes in a hypocrite.

Hypocrisy - The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

What moral standard did "have you seen?" claim?

I'm just saying.