[Stoat]

Some twenty years ago, the President of Hunter College in NYC, a woman who is of Jamaican descent, advocated for public boarding schools to get young black children out of their culture of crime and into a culture of progress.

I'm guessing that Jamaicans aren't regarded by other black Americans as "authentic" blacks, just as Condi Rice and Colin Powell aren't regarded as 'authentic' because they aren't hard-left Socialists who are focused on endless Government programs and handouts in an effort to maintain their political power.

She was roundly condemed (By the Black Community), but I think she was on to something.

They would need to first recognize where the problem is, which they have no interest in doing.  And yes, you are indeed onto something.

Boarding schools for the early grades seem unusual to us, but in the Brtish culture, and even throughout Africa, children went off at a young age and returned home on holidays. They were in a controlled environment, and in Africa, learned to speak excellent English.
 

It's a wonderful idea that would address and most likely solve a very great need.  The difficulty is that it would represent political suicide for black as well as white liberal politicians, who have been telling us for decades that all of the problems of black America are exclusively due to white racism.  To see instant successes from such a worthy plan as yours would show the voting constituency of these politicians and activists that they have been lied to for the past sixty years, and all would be instantly booted out of office.  The Urban League, the NAACP and other racial pressure groups would fall apart and black America would become a powerful economic engine with a strong cultural base that would make all Americans beam with pride.

But this won't happen because too many people make their living off of maintaining a modern black Plantation, where everyone on the Plantation is beholden to Government for their meager existence.

Yes, it's evil.  Yes, it should be criminal.  But that is the face of modern Socialism and the American hard Left.

"sigh"

Some twenty years ago, the President of Hunter College in NYC, a woman who is of Jamaican descent, advocated for public boarding schools to get young black children out of their culture of crime and into a culture of progress.

I'm guessing that Jamaicans aren't regarded by other black Americans as "authentic" blacks, just as Condi Rice and Colin Powell aren't regarded as 'authentic' because they aren't hard-left Socialists who are focused on endless Government programs and handouts in an effort to maintain their political power.

She was roundly condemed (By the Black Community), but I think she was on to something.

They would need to first recognize where the problem is, which they have no interest in doing.  And yes, you are indeed onto something.

Boarding schools for the early grades seem unusual to us, but in the Brtish culture, and even throughout Africa, children went off at a young age and returned home on holidays. They were in a controlled environment, and in Africa, learned to speak excellent English.
 

[happygrl]

Jamaicans have a reputation for being very hardworking, and comprise a high percentage of those attending college in the City College system of NYC. They are resented for this.

Middle class blacks who pay high taxes are beginning to get off the Plantation.

Change comes slowly, but until the Sharptons and the Jacksons die off, they will be the "go-to" guys for the opinion seekers.

[wintertime]

they aren’t hard-left Socialists
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The word is MARXISTS.

It is time to use the word that fits.

[wintertime]

Boarding schools would only work if they were privately owned, privately managed, and Christian based.

Government boarding schools would be hotbeds of Marxism and homosexual activity and indoctrination.