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Phydeaux -> RE: Black Lies Matter (1/3/2016 1:25:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
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ORIGINAL: tj444
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
Frankly, I wish black lives mattered more. I would like to see more black success stories. But the fact that they don't is more about crime than it is about police brutality. Its more about poor life choices than it is about racism.
well, I guess if being born poor was a "poor life choice" maybe that would be true.. but the fact is that people born poor more often than not dont have anywhere near the resources and opportunities to make good life choices than rich white people have.. that is why there has been a segregation in various cities where the poor (mostly black) people live in certain areas and the rich (mostly white) people live in other areas where poor black people cant afford to live.. the rich areas get the best teachers and schools, the best medical facilities, the most jobs too.. and its getting worse, imo..
As just one example of what poor black people have to live with.. here the North Houston ISD was so badly managed that it had to be taken over by another ISD.. there were many kids whose education records and proof of graduation were no where to be found, those records disappeared.. How does a young black person that went thru school, did his/her best to get good grades and graduate get a job when they cant prove that they even went to school??? How disgusting is that?
"Ortiz is 45 years old and homeless. It s a situation that he says didn t have to happen.
That s because Ortiz was offered a job at Anheuser- Busch s Houston bottling plant last year after he was laid off.
Something to keep me not only on my feet, but to prosper, he told the I-Team.
All that stood between Ortiz and the job was proving he graduated high school.
It should have been no problem. He showed the I-Team a picture of himself in the Forest Brook High School yearbook.
Ortiz was wearing his cap and gown, pictured with his classmates in the class of 1987.
But when Ortiz went to pick up a copy of his high school transcript, he couldn t believe what he was told.
There was no record of transcripts, explained Ortiz. No records of anything. No records of grades, graduation, nothing.
It was like he never attended Forest Brook at all."
http://www.khou.com/story/news/investigations/2014/07/25/12476652/
I can't begin to elaborate on my disdain for using anecdotal stories as if they supported a distorted political conception. Did he go to the school district?
I seriously doubt most schools have graduation records from 28 years earlier.
time and time again you see immigrants comng to this world with nothing - just the shirt on their back. They don't even speak the language.
Why is it that they succeed? Whether you talk about the Vietnamese after the Vietnam war, the Koreans after the Korean war, the irish, the Italians, the Cubans. Mexicans. even Mexicans that are black
they come across the boarder and work to send money to their families back home.
I sure as hell hope that schools have graduation records from the day they opened!!! Omg, you think its no big deal if they dont? How else does anyone prove they graduated then? People are working into their 70s, 80s, even 90s so yeah, those records matter if they are required for the jobs they are applying for.. And fyi, people did complain but were told "oh theres nothing we dont have authority over the isd, blah, blah, blah"..
Obviously he didnt need to prove he graduated until that job required that proof, its pretty hard to do anything about something you arent aware of.. but it wasnt just him.. You are basically saying that their years of studying, getting good grades, graduating wasnt worth doing.. They did work hard to get ahead, just like immigrants do, but they havent gotten credit, jobs and the rewards they should have gotten.. and it wasnt their fault or any of their doing, it wasnt their poor life choice (as you claim and blame black people for)..
There are biases in the US system (schools, jails, banking, credit, loans, etc) that sets mostly poor black and hispanic people up for failure and poverty.. I see it everywhere.. and most of those biases are deliberate and intended to add extra profit to greedy American corporations...
Learn to read. I said nothing of the kind. I said after 28 years he should have gone to the school district.
You may hope that schools have graduation records all you wish. I know that in my state, graduation records are sent to the school district, for archiving and safe keeping. After a certain number of years, to get your graduation records, you have to go to the school district, not the individual school.
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There are biases in the US system (schools, jails, banking, credit, loans, etc) that sets mostly poor black and hispanic people up for failure and poverty.. I see it everywhere.. and most of those biases are deliberate and intended to add extra profit to greedy American corporations...
I have no doubt you see it everywhere. You probably also compare Trump to Hitler, think Bill Clinton really didn't rape Paula Jones, and believe that the bulk of US spending goes to greedy corporations.
Just to play along lets take just one of your examples. You said that biases in American schools are intended to set blacks and hispanics up for failure and poverty AND to add extra profit to greedy american corporations.
Therefore, please give me three examples of biases that are intended to set blacks and hispanics up for failure and add extra profit to greedy american corporations.
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