Not everyone’s experience is the same...
Haven’t any of you ever known good black families? I know very strict, churchgoing parents who raise their children well.
I grew up and lived in some crime-ridden communities where both “black” and “white” people were drug dealers and criminals with absent fathers and teenaged mothers, as far back as the late 60’s and 70’s when I was a child.
The most dangerous people in the town where I grew up could be found on both sides of the tracks, so to speak, and so could the good people, who unfortunately were few and far between.
Maybe it’s because staten island is so segregated that it’s easy to see the black population is a complete disaster here.
I’ve been told blacks are different in the south. Descent people just living their lives. But not on Staten Island
Narcotics among the white kids out here is an epidemic. That is true.
I saw it when driving a cab. They are disasters.
But the times i was robbed, the times i was hassled, the times i would see 50 healthy young black men drinking in front of bodegas and bragging about their rep, the times I had to hear how bad whitey is, and the times I had to see 15 year olds with kids and much more just left a bad taste in my mouth.’
Of course I had descent black folk in the cab too. Maybe 15 percent.
Why on earth do folks always put up exceptions to disprove the rule
It simply does not work
And it’s how children argue
Those exceptions you mention were more likely to be the rule pre Great Society
But black culture still had issues many times greater than comparable groups
American Indians were second with alcoholism and unemployment and family issues statistically
Black integration into 21st century western culture is problematic anywhere in the world from Rwanda to Harlem to Kingston to Rios slums
Most groups behind 300 years ago still today lag as a group regardless of colonialism or govt programs
But not all do
Which begs questions none dare confront
I've known two. Decent, super smart really good families. None better.
I also know a liberal who rented out her townhouse in D.C. to the graduate student children of what she called good black families. $30,000 worth of damage later she found out that even though the parents were doctors, lawyers, business owners, etc. who summered in Oak Bluffs, their kids were trash.