I just read the article and about halfway through the comments. The leftists are doing their usual of defending the stance of Rebecca Brown, research coordinator for the Urban Strategies Council, who says, “I think it’s important to get past the blame of parents and start looking at the challenges that the parents are facing,”.
Now that is just really rich, when they are unfailing in their attempts to blame whites for every problem in the black “community”, even to the point of digging up such things as “white privilege” (being born white), and “micro-aggressions” (being in the presence of a white person) because they have run out of real, pervasive racism to blame. So, when it can be blamed on whites, no matter how contorted the “reasoning”, that will be the go-to position. If it can’t (yet) be blamed on whites, then no blame must be found at all.
I was impressed by the number of people in the comments who were like “YES blame the parents!”
It’s not little 5-yo Tamika’s fault if she doesn’t go to class. It’s not the teacher’s fault. It’s not whitey’s fault. It’s not Obama’s fault. It’s not Al Sharpton’s fault. It’s not society’s fault.
It’s 100% on the parents to make sure their kid is in school every day.
No excuses.
“Now that is just really rich, when they are unfailing in their attempts to blame whites for every problem in the black “community”, even to the point of digging up such things as “white privilege” (being born white), and “micro-aggressions” (being in the presence of a white person) because they have run out of real, pervasive racism to blame. So, when it can be blamed on whites, no matter how contorted the “reasoning”, that will be the go-to position. If it can’t (yet) be blamed on whites, then no blame must be found at all.”
Excellent analysis! Yeah, the whole problem with Black failure as a “community” here in the US is the fault of everyone but the Black’s themselves. Now, I think that soft racism (and some hard racism too) still exists, but it seems to devolve down to who is going to “blink” first. Until Blacks successfully tackle their huge “contribution” to the nation’s crime picture, they are in for continued rough sledding. And that’s sad for those in their community that have the will to try and get out because they are continually tarred with the “crime brush” the “less well motivated” in their ethnicity cause all to be painted with.