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Op-Ed: Why I Don’t Plan to Raise My Black Children in the US
21 Ninety ^ | Nov 2023 | Aysia Morton

Posted on 03/16/2024 3:26:05 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

As a Black woman living in the United States, the prospect of becoming a parent one day is both exciting and terrifying. The world offers endless possibilities and opportunities, but ignoring the challenges and harsh realities that disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities is impossible.

Unfortunately, there’s no escaping the pigment of your skin and the pervasive sting of systemic racism and racial discrimination. This reality exists across the globe. Altogether, every country is affected, as countries of color are taken hold by colorism. Comparatively, there’s something sinister about American racism. Even European countries, the OG colonizers, look at us incredulously.

Here are some reasons why I won’t be raising my future Black children in the United States.

Gun Violence in America

Poor Education Systems

Disparities Harming Black Communities

Considering the Future

This decision is rooted in love and the desire to provide children a safer, more equitable, and nurturing environment. But this conversation should go beyond individual choices and focus on collective and community efforts. Can the U.S. work towards positive change and make the world a better place for our future kids to thrive? In the end, it’s about doing what’s best for our children and future children and ensuring that they have the opportunities and support they need to lead fulfilling lives.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: aysiamorton; black; crt; guncontrol; racism
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I also doubt she’ll make the effort. What I was getting at was that she’ll find plenty of “the pervasive sting of systemic racism and racial discrimination” there, though they’ll be very polite about it. Still, not much gun violence, and good schools for those who want to learn, so Japan should be just a great place for her and her children, with or without their dad (the dad seemed optional, as nearly as I could tell).


121 posted on 03/16/2024 5:42:50 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nopardons

You’ll have to share it. 🙂


122 posted on 03/16/2024 5:44:32 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Liberia, if she has a source of income.


123 posted on 03/16/2024 5:46:44 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She has no kids! This is hypothetical nonsense.


124 posted on 03/16/2024 5:47:16 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Robert DeLong

Yes, HIGH YELLOW or WHITE husband; however, is THAT really a picture of them? In the article she says that she doesn’t have any children yet.


125 posted on 03/16/2024 5:48:00 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

To the socialist author: we collectively thank you, and hope you consider leaving permanently.


126 posted on 03/16/2024 5:48:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Robert DeLong

I shall; it hits YouTube, Amazon Music, SPOTIFY, and other sites on March 22!


127 posted on 03/16/2024 5:50:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Excellent! As the old joke goes, it would be a shame if there are any empty seats on your bus when you bag-ass out of the USA.


128 posted on 03/16/2024 6:06:52 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If not “Bye,” then how about “Adios.”


129 posted on 03/16/2024 6:07:41 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Just like Kamala’s mother.


130 posted on 03/16/2024 6:09:06 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
What I was getting at was that she'll find plenty of “the pervasive sting of systemic racism and racial discrimination” there, though they'll be very polite about it.

They will be polite only to a point.

And then they will become very blunt. In general to the Japanese unless you are Japanese you are lesser.

White Americans, if they act properly, are almost given equal status with the Anui. Not quite you understand. But just a couple of degrees... well maybe four or five degrees lower. But that is only because we fought them and kicked their butts. They resent it but they also respect it.

The rest of the world is populated by talking animals.

131 posted on 03/16/2024 6:16:05 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: JBW1949
The aging WW II and Depression generations who voted for Johnson also get the blame. Medicare, Medicaid, and AFDC were popular enough that warnings about their fiscal recklessness were ignored in favor of Johnson's low ball estimates of their cost. In addition, massive immigration was approved in order to cement the Democrats into power and provide cheap labor.

The end result was a combination of wage stagnation for blacks as they emerged from segregation and a sudden path to prosperity and independence for unwed mothers. Older blacks saw and condemned the ensuing wave of fatherless boys prone to violence, drugs, and crime. Younger blacks though embraced the explanation that the problems of their own misbehavior were somehow caused by racism.

132 posted on 03/16/2024 6:20:37 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: MountainWalker

Good catch and meaningful


133 posted on 03/16/2024 6:24:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Nicely summed up. And Chinese are perhaps even more thoroughly convinced of their own superiority, IMO, possibly because they haven’t lost a major war recently.


134 posted on 03/16/2024 6:24:45 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

MSN = Total Propaganda.

Zero Credibility.


135 posted on 03/16/2024 6:27:54 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Aysia Morton ....

MagicRaceBall

136 posted on 03/16/2024 6:40:30 PM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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If only Wakanda was real.


137 posted on 03/16/2024 6:41:08 PM PDT by Johnny Wumbo
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There’s plenty of space in Africa. What’s stopping her?


138 posted on 03/16/2024 6:42:29 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NWFree

She could an American African


139 posted on 03/16/2024 6:45:58 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: All

Just one question, Aysia: “Why haven’t you left yet?”


140 posted on 03/16/2024 6:48:41 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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