Posted on 08/22/2014 7:31:41 AM PDT by SJackson
Does Brown have a live in father? I have never seen hide nor hair of him on the Telly.
The father and mother don’t live together but yes, the father has appeared on the telly
“...many young black people still have a highly adversarial relationship with sources of civil authority and American society...”
No matter how much ‘free stuff’ and favored status you get, if you have an 800 lb. chip on your shoulder and if you are CONSTANTLY spoiling for confrontation.... you are going to make trouble because you’re addicted to discord-AND because you have NO OTHER identity!!
I heard a report that he was living with his grandmother.
“They also genuinely believed that he would develop legislative policies and social programs that would help African-American communities and the poor people of this nation...”
Another LIE.
For 30+ years minorities in the US have been receiving TONS of benefits, advantages, support, guidance, favored status, financial support, etc.
How do you IMPROVE on THAT? After all these years, how can you STILL complain that you need/must have MORE???!!!
Are you completely blind, deaf and dumb so that NOTHING gives you a leg up to get started in life??
I wonder if he ever bum-rushed his grandmother.
If there is any group of people that the President should have been desperately trying to reach with his message of hope and change it is young men like Michael Brown.
We have a generation of people (including conservatives) who in essence worship the government. The govt is the answer to every problem.
The best and only thing I inherited from my Dad was when I asked him how to do something he would tell me, “You have a smart mother and father, you figure it out.” Reagan was good at that and essentially reminded us of our heritage and pushed the issues back down to us.
When was that last time you heard that?
Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
These ten charts show the black-white economic gap hasn’t budged in 50 years
"The wealth gap between minorities and whites has not improved over the past three decades," reports the Urban Institute. "From 1983 to 2010, average family wealth for whites has been about six times that of blacks and Hispanics — the gap in actual dollars growing as average wealth increased for both groups." And the Great Recession exacerbated that gap, as blacks and Hispanics were hit especially hard.
From Pew: "The incarceration rate of black men is more than six times higher than that of white men, slightly larger than the gap in 1960."
White man's rules don't apply to them. They don't want to be part of that racist society. /s
And the 'son' wasn't living with either of them.
Where did MB live, if not with his mom?
If you’re being chased by a 700 lb. Bengal tiger and you’re throwing T-bone steaks at him...do you think he’ll go away?
So your solution to the problem is what?
Childbearing in the context of a marriage. The benefits of education, work and self sufficiency. I think it would have been nice had the President addressed these issues, but he’s opted for divisiveness based largely on economic results. And failed to address the reasons for the disparity in results. Which isn’t race. In the end, values have to be taught by the family, not government.
Don’t know, I’ve seen pictures of his father though mom seems to be on TV more. Though I hadn’t considered it, I would have presumed they lived together which well might not be true. I guess that’s my bias, husband, wife, children, I assume they’re a family under one roof, despite the fact that I know better.
African ‘Americans’ are just similar by class to Anglo-Saxon ‘Americans and East European ‘Americans’ and SE Asian ‘Americans’ and Oriental ‘Americans and etc. In past years , especially in the days of WWII, the population was mostly European ‘Americans’ who had learned how to get along and even fight a war together. However. there are inherited cultural differences that extend back through the ages. The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a lesson in the difficulties if not errors encountered when people try to blend the cultures instead of just living alongside one another. Cultural differences do have behavioral differences. It was and should be no surprise that the growth of the USA came primarily from cultures which embodied fertile habits. The African culture was and is one culture lagging in such habits.
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