What would correct this is the firm hand of a loving father on their shoulder. Sadly, far too many don’t have that.
I’ll recommend it to a friend of mine for his opinion. He teaches high-school at an inner-city high school. He’s white, but a big guy, a beard like Grizzly Adams, tattoos. They respect him.
There are other teachers (usually female) who are weak, and while there is some physical violence (often while breaking up fights) but its the verbal abuse drives them away.
His biggest complaint is that there’s just a few who are the worst offenders, but the time needed to deal with them, and their influence overall, destroys the learning environment for everyone else - particularly the girls.
“The author focuses on the perspective and voices of pre-adolescent African American boys.”
Now, imagine if they focused on just plain-old American kids,
and helped to teach how to act, instead of listening to them.
After all, they are KIDS.
You are an Adult, so show them the way, don’t follow them.
I have been a school resource officer for the past 4 years. After George Floyd… the lush here was to remove the police from the schools because they “target black and brown children at a disproportionate rate”. Isaac part of a task force for 10 months … trying to explain the job of an SRO. we don’t do anything unless it is brought to our attention by the school admin. The problem is that they disproportionately get caught committing the offenses..Activists tried to say that SROS have a say who is suspended for school violations, which we do not. In the end.. the parents of the community.. and 75% of the students… mostly hispanic… wanted us to stay. So now the admin has been instructed to not bring hardly anything to our attention. I am retiring at the end of this school year…
My gym has mostly black members. I use this club because the pool is usually open- it’s a fact, in-general, black people don’t swim.
However since Dante Wright (same community) I have noticed that some of the guys working out are hostile towards me. I get the feeling: what are you doing in our gym.
IMO if the black community keeps feeding this hate, there are going to be awful race wars in USA.
The angry black man didn’t realize that the white people who go to “his” gym, like black people. The racists go to another gym. Again THIS IS MY OPINION.
fatherless boys, raised by single “girls” -— it’s baked right in
then NEVER make them follow normal civilized behavior at home let alone while in school and, well...
The “benign” racism of Liberals low expectations of blacks, and why it is I believe black youth do much better in the historically all black schools, where no such low expectations are shown.
When they started bussing blacks to my junior high in the 70's that's when it began.
Until then we rarely had problems. Just stating the obvious.
Genetics
It’s always someone else’s fault, isn’t it?