Posted on 03/25/2006 11:08:03 PM PST by Crackingham
I grew up in a time when two-parent families were still the norm, in both black and white America. Then, as an adult, I saw divorce become more commonplace, then almost a rite of passage. Today it would appear that many -- particularly in the black community -- have dispensed with marriage altogether.
But as a black woman, I have witnessed the outrage of girlfriends when the ex failed to show up for his weekend with the kids, and I've seen the disappointment of children who missed having a dad around. Having enjoyed a close relationship with my own father, I made a conscious decision that I wanted a husband, not a live-in boyfriend and not a "baby's daddy," when it came my time to mate and marry. My time never came. For years, I wondered why not. And then some 12-year-olds enlightened me.
"Marriage is for white people."
That's what one of my students told me some years back when I taught a career exploration class for sixth-graders at an elementary school in Southeast Washington. I was pleasantly surprised when the boys in the class stated that being a good father was a very important goal to them, more meaningful than making money or having a fancy title.
"That's wonderful!" I told my class. "I think I'll invite some couples in to talk about being married and rearing children."
"Oh, no," objected one student. "We're not interested in the part about marriage. Only about how to be good fathers."
And that's when the other boy chimed in, speaking as if the words left a nasty taste in his mouth: "Marriage is for white people."
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A tough one to answer, no doubt. It would probably take some disaster on the order of Katrina/New Orleans and the ensuing [permanent] relocation into an area that treats such things as marriage/parenthood the way it's supposed to be treated. A generation or so of that new environment may fix a good deal of the problems.
Right now, the problem seems to be "nurture" versus "nature." Blacks in too many areas are products of their unhealthy environments, and it's starting to become a real problem for them and everyone around them.
My husband and I attended a foster-adopt seminar in CA before we had children, as we were both interested. That interest ended when they informed us that they would control how we disciplined our natural children if we became involved with the program. IE: NO spanking.
That was it for us.
Those who automatically write, "Bush's fault," especially when Bush's name appears nowhere in the article, have nothing otherwise to contribute to the topic of the thread. BTW it is not even funny anymore; it has become trite and boorish. The electronic equivalent of littering.
Not according to the hispanic kids I teach. They clearly and outspokenly distinguish between themselves and whites. Now maybe this is specific to inner city hispanic kids from Los Angeles, but they definitely remark upon people with blue eyes and casually refer to "white kids" all the time.
Interesting observation.
Wow. Bummer.
So, Mohammed was black, eh? One of those Black Saudis? Heh heh heh...
Yes it is ..People forget how ahead of his time he was on this subject.
no kidding..
I am always very happy when I see black couples who look like they share my values but it is not common
it was much more common when I was a boy
And??
In this country, we can see what the results are. For example, Hollywood, Congress, Democrats, lawyers, Unions, even the Federal Reserve and the IRS, are all vectors for Communist ideology. Some of you will object, the federal reserve? Put on tinfoil hats! Ssshhhh. It's the jooooos! But look at the national debt. Rising prices and dollar devaluation. Jefferson warned us of perpetual debt. Was Jefferson a tinfoiler? Collectivism is everywhere. The governing elite is inbred communism. Look at your public schools, monopolies, cesspools of academic failure and acculturation, with all but totally forced attendance. Resistance to home schooling. Watch what happens when a bible shows up in a classroom, or a tablet of the 10 commandments shows up in a courthouse. Our inablility to control our borders is part of it.
These things are not holdovers from a bygone era. They are actively promoted today by believers in communism in our government, in our academia. I don't mean this in a bad way to offend, but perhaps the greater ignorance is yours? In that you, we, all of us, don't appreciate the world is filled with believers in communism and are actively promoting it, is what I'm saying. And that it disserves us to dismiss it so blithely, and declare it defunct.
We Americans don't multitask very well. We want to fight one enemy at a time. It is hard for one hero to fight two bad guys, except in the movies. But wars are often fought on more than one front. We have awakened to the threat of islamism, more or less. Islamism is not a red herring, but it could become one if we fail to recognize the threats coming concurrently from active communism and resist them as well. Communism could well bury us, to use a familiar expression, while we are diverted and distracted by islamic fundamentalism, our current one concern. Perhaps the communists already realize this and are exploiting our tunnel vision.
Whatever happened to the human race?
There are quite a few people of Mexican Mestizo parentage who have blue or green eyes.
Told you! The "corral" bit was over the top.
ow how bad this sounds, and I really hate to think it -- but honestly, Sometimes in the face of evidence -- Every other race moving ahead Asians of every stripe and hue, American Indians {the casinos help}, and certainly hispanics, the newest, largest minority -- in the face of all the evidence, it sometimes is hard to keep thinking that blacks really ARE able to make it on their own.
Maybe they just aren't as good.
Incidentally, I'd vote for Condoleeza Rice for President in a minute, and any search of my previous posts would prove it.
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If he was born in Arabia, that technically makes Mad Mo an Asian
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