Who knew the DoE had a civil rights division?
All these problems can be solved by the government. Family and faith have no role. /Marx
It has NOTHING at all to do with them coming from single parent homes with mothers barely children who were raised by mothers who were barely children. It has NOTHING at all to do with the "gangsta" culture they are exposed to and encouraged to emulate from the earliest age.
Black Americans need to get their act together and quit blaming everyone else for things only they can control.
“Travis L. Gosa, Ph.D., is assistant professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, where his research focuses on racial inequality and African-American youths.”
What an immense waste of resources. Travis should get a real education in something productive like welding. Or anything useful.
Culture and lifestyle.
I knew it! Whitney’s fault.
As someone here or elsewhere cogently pointed out, any 'studies' department at any college is simply tacked on and meant to house the quota hires.
Another example, albeit a shameful one, is Louisville's weekend orgy of violence.
Who would be silly enough to draw a correlation between a lack of self control with a lack of parenting?
Start with poor parenting.
For those of us educated in good middle class schools, these may seem like trivial things. My sister teaches in an all-black school and experiences the reality every day. Tardiness and dress code violations are not trivial...they are all about disrupting the class and getting respect from other low-life thugs. They don't quietly enter the classroom late and meekly take their seats. They strut in all defiant, showing off, acting up, challenging the teacher's authority and physically threatening everybody. These are not isolated instances, either. It happens day after day after day after day.
The author is clearly living in a cloistered la-la land.
The entire article as well most of the comments, with all due respect, are moot.
When the economy implodes, EBT cards stop and hell breaks loose, it will be the black population as well as their distinguished white liberal enablers that will be the first engulfed by the chaos.
Nature has a way of dealing with inefficiencies in the world.
Travis L. Gosa, Ph.D. is an idiot. Who handed him a degree? It’s obvious he didn’t earn it.
Although most of the article consists of unsupported racial grievance mongering and substitution of ill-informed opinion for facts and well-reasoned arguments, at least the author displays some ability to recognize and articulate some actual root causes. But he is willfully blind to other realities.
Fear of black children can make Trayvon Martin’s Skittles and a hoodie seem like an eminent (sic) threat
For an "assistant professor", the author seems to be lacking in traditional professorial skills (such as the ability to not confuse similar-sounding words that have different meanings). Beyond the inapt word choice in that sentence, though, the author substitutes hyperbole and a willful misunderstanding of the circumstances of the Trayvon Martin shooting for true insight into the way that the world works.
However, inasmuch as the author is evidently a willing participant in an overly politicized and not very rigorous academic "discipline" such as "Africana Studies" at a leftist-infested school such as Cornell, I would expect nothing less than the kind of mediocre thought processes, rigid adherence to leftist orthodoxy, and insubstantial writing skill on display in this article.
Every society that has ever existed have had laws, rules, customs and culture to modify the behavior of individuals and allow people to live with minimum conflict.
It is up to the family (and here I will include the “it takes a village to raise a child”, as part of the family). When I was young I could not figure out how my mom knew what I was doing, often before I got home. It was only later that I discovered the big secret, parents talk to each other. If they see a kid doing something they should not be doing they would drop a dime on them. Of if serious, they would step in and stop the action.
Of all the restraints placed on individuals, the family is the strongest.
The weakest is the law.
If we had an honest media they would report that before the Great Society and the Civil Right laws of the 1960s, the current problems that exist in the “black” community just did not exist. Blacks for the most part no different then everyone else (except for the de jure discrimination existing in the south, and the de facto discrimination in the north). But blacks married, had children, worked and for the most part were outstanding citizens of our society.
Ending legal discrimination by any government agency was the correct thing to. How ever the way they went about it created unintended consequences.
The Great Society and welfare tore apart families.
The charge of racism against anyone (white or black) who criticized actions by blacks. It has gotten to the point where a black person can decide what behavior they consider racist and what is acceptable. Of course each individual has their own standards so no one really knows if their action will be perceived as racist or not.
The Great Society and the swing of civil rights too far in the other directions has broken the normal restraint a community would impose on a person.
The only recourse for society is the law.
This is why there are so many in prison.
Want to break that cycle. Teach the children how they should behave in our society.
(Now I have done it. I will be called a racist for having an opinion that someone does not like. So be it).
There is racial inequality. One race commits 5 times more crime per person than the other race.
As long as black children are taught racial inequality by our leftist education system, then racial inequality will continue unabated.
I have a dream that one day, America's children will not be taught that they are black or that they are white - that they will not be programmed with feelings of guilt or victimhood based upon the skin pigmentation they happen to be born with. I have a dream that one day liberalism will be eradicated from our education system so that we can truly transcend into a colorblind society.
Unfortunately, a colorblind society means that Travis L. Gosa will have to find a new job. And this explains why liberals like this will do everything in their power to ensure that the guilt-victimhood cycle continues.
This guy is detached from reality. He needs to read this real account of blacks in a classroom for some clarity:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1503253_Craigslist__Essay_by_a_Teacher_in_a_Black_School.html