Is there any hope for this subculture? Are they just doomed?
I want to wave a magic wand and stop the vicious cycle but it just gets worse every subsequent generation. How do we fix this without taking all the fatherless babies away from their mothers and raising them in Catholic convents or some such thing.
This problem seems doomed to go on forever worsening.
It’s not clear to me how they managed it, but Victorian England had a large population of uneducated, ruthless gutter rats in every big city. I’m thinking mid to late 1800s when Capitalism was taking off and their society hadn’t figured out how to deal with “the dregs”.
Somehow they turned it around. While they never eliminated poverty, and they did eventually slide deeply into socialism and decline, there was a period (1900 to 1940 perhaps) where England seemed to build a stronger social fabric and have somewhat fewer people living life at the bottom.
Whatever they did is probably what we need to do.
Put them in cages. In the Pacific Ocean.
That's an interesting question. It depends. For example in the 17 years I taught at those two inner city high schools, I never experienced the first incident of racism from any student. Even those I'd had suspended or expelled. But the teachers and administrators that were "of color?" The hatred rolled off of them in waves. I had a principal for a few years that refused to look any white person in the eye when greeted with a "Good Morning!" he might respond but he wouldn't even glance your way.
95% of my students, when they were finished with my assignment in class, they'd take out a Holy Bible and read or have a quiet "study" among themselves, to which I was delighted. Some of the LIBTARDS in that school, among the faculty would suppress that activity, but not me.
OTOH, about 5% of those I taught were totally welfare state minded and of them maybe 2% would be ripe for radicalization to Islam and recruitment. That happened to me in 2001 right after 911, but that's a long story for another time. The small percentages were shunned by the "good kids" and they would come to me and apologize profusely when one of them (entitlement children) would act stupid in class.