vincentML
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ORIGINAL: Awareness The rise of single-mother families in black America is the single most influential factor in the poor social, educational and economic outcomes for black children. I would agree with you on that. Seems to make sense, it does. However, I would also be interested to see what the correlation is for white kids in single parent homes and their educational attainment. And, are there other factors involved? Jay Fayza mentions many of them in this video. The figures he quote support a link between educational outcomes and economic outcomes: https://youtu.be/AoHAG9UFaKI Thanks for the video. Fayza states the obvious. Single parent black families headed by a poorly educated mother in most cases will be impoverished and the progeny will have a high rate of school failure. Then he blames the victims, doesn't he, for their future poverty? The white dominated legislative and correctional power structure has nothing to do with the breakdown of black family demographics with the increased rate of black male incarceration? Fayza ignores all the tough on crime rhetoric and legislation as well as the growth of private correctional institutions happily willing to warehouse many black men for non-violent offenses. Fayza also goes astray, imo, when he compares the economic successes of Asians, Indian, Iranian, and Nigerian immigrants to black Americans. Firstly, we do not know the talents and financial resources brought to America by those immigrants. Secondly, they are smaller groups compared to American blacks and we can speculate that they have greater opportunities for assistance within their groups. It is important to remember the history of the most recent migration of southern blacks into the northern cities; they were poor and uneducated share croppers driven from the fields by the invention of the cotton combine in the 1950s. The comparison is not a valid one in my opinion.
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vML Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ MLK Jr.
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