Report: Problems With Black Men Are Major U.S. Crisis (Urban League)

Local 6 (Florida) ^ | April 17, 2007

[Stoat]

Hmmm....no mention of out-of-wedlock births and broken / single-parent families, no mention of Justice Department statistics showing crime rates as opposed to only citing incarceration rates....one could go on and on finding faults with this 'report'.   This document is remarkable not for the statements that it makes but for the huge chasms of essential subject matter that it studiously avoids or sidesteps.

If a 'report' such as this is used as a template for public policy, black Americans will continue to suffer the same fates that they have for the past fifty-odd years.

One surprisingly lucid suggestion is included, however:

The report suggested that all-male schools with a strong emphasis on mentoring could help keep black boys "focused on their education and away from distractions that could lead them down the wrong paths."

The last time I checked, Conservatives have been shouting the praises of separating boys and girls in schools for decades or more.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

AND THE FOOTNOTE AT THE END OF IT IS:

and stressed that any overall progress will need a boost from parents.

“They must continually talk to their children about how much better off they will be by graduating from high school and college,” it said.

[Stoat]

Black Conservative Ping

[Stoat]

AND THE FOOTNOTE AT THE END OF IT IS

Yes...it's expressed almost as an afterthought, isn't it?

Very sad.

[Williams]

Does the report suggest disbanding the NEA for blocking teacher reform, throwing the democrats out of Congress for preventing school choice, and kicking out the democrat mayors who sit atop the failure in most of our major cities?

[stephenjohnbanker]

In 5 years, the mexican gangs are gonna make black urbans look like boy scouts.

[TASMANIANRED]

Biggest problem is fatherless households.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

the jillion man march shunned Eartha Kitt, and Bill Cosby is ignored.....the bunch that wrote has gotta be really careful, LOL.

[Chode]

opportunities??? they piss away the biggest FREE opportunity of them all when they think they are too cool for school...

everything else is downhill from there. p!ss on em.

[Stoat]

Does the report suggest disbanding the NEA for blocking teacher reform, throwing the democrats out of Congress for preventing school choice, and kicking out the democrat mayors who sit atop the failure in most of our major cities?

Hmmm....let me check.  Well, not in the first couple of paragraphs.  Still checking......still not seeing it.  Checking further....nope, not here.  Down at the bottom of the page now, and no mention of any of the essential items you mentioned.

Could it have been a typo?

Perhaps a clerical error?

Maybe this is only a rough draft that the Associated Press stole out of a trash bin?

SURELY you don't think that these essential points that you mention are not part of the Urban League's plan for a solution to the problems afflicting black Americans?

(hopefully I don't need to add a 'sarcasm' disclaimer)

[familyop]

IMO, all sides need to stop complaining about them, stop being so afraid of them, and put them to work. Programs (like "affirmative action") for putting only women to work while rejecting men are accomplishing little more than destruction/prevention of families. It's a way of preventing competition from rising. Our forefathers in business said that "competition is healthy." We should get back to that and stop tearing our neighbors' families apart and/or leaving them with few options beyond serial polygamy. It's time to end the man-hating campaign against working men.

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf

The following paid to have briefs filed in favor of “affirmative action” in the Michigan “Grutter v. Bollinger” (Michigan University) case.

Fortune 500 Corporations that filed briefs in favor of “affirmative action” for Michigan University

3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines

General Motors Corporation
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/gru_gm.html

American Bar Association

American Council on Education, et. al.

Civil Rights Project of Harvard University

Clinical Legal Education Association

Law Deans of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, New York and Yale University, and University of Pennsylvania

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law

Michigan Attorney General

Michigan Public Officials

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, et. al.

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund

Ohio State University

Thirty-six Faculty Members of The Ohio State University College of Law

UAW (International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers

[familyop]

"Does the report suggest disbanding the NEA for blocking teacher reform, throwing the democrats out of Congress for preventing school choice, and kicking out the democrat mayors who sit atop the failure in most of our major cities?"

Those are most excellent recommendations, IMO.

[fish hawk]

Maybe if those men actually quit looking for the easy buck and got a real job they would be just a little better off. I don’t know a lot of black men but the few I do know are hard working people and own their own home and have decent families and go on nice vacations etc. I refuse to feel sorry for the sorry asses that insist on staying in their rut and getting fourth generation welfare. To be fair, I am a American Indian and I know plenty of Indians that fit this same MO. It’s easier to sell drugs that actually get a real job.

[Stoat]

Not sure if the subject matter here is appropriate for a “Moral Absolutes” ping, but I felt that a breakdown in morality is at the root of so many of the problems itemized in the article here I thought I’d give y’all a ping.

Intact black families and a rejection of immorality coupled with an embrace of traditional Conservative values would leave organizations such as the Urban League with nothing at all to do, IMHO.

[Stoat]

Public School Ping

[Clemenza]

In 5 years, the mexican gangs are gonna make black urbans look like boy scouts.

Spoken like a true Californian.

Seriously, when Mexicans started showing up in New York in large numbers about 15 years ago, there was a rash of robberies of Mexican delivery boys by black and Nuyorican gangs. This lasted about two years, until said thugs would take their "loot", only to get iced five minutes later by the friends of the delivery boy.

Would it be racist to say that the most we white folk can do is get out the popcorn? After all, what was once "Little Africa" in 19th Century New York became Little Italy after some Sicillians told the swarthy ones to head uptown or eat steel for their last meal.

[Stoat]

Education Ping

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

http://www.nul.org/thestateofblackamerica.html

you can’t even read the damned thing unless you BUY it...

[Desron13]

...problems facing black men represent America's most serious social crisis and proposed an aggressive campaign to provide them with more opportunities.

I got to this part and stopped. No point in reading further. More hand outs and wealth redistribution is the solution to all of our social problems. BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!

[SampleMan]

The problem is clearly white people. If white people weren't so often successful, then black people that try hard wouldn't be attacked by other blacks as acting white.

The only clear answer is for white America to start dropping out of school and blaming others for all of their problems. The Democratic Party has taken the lead on this.