To Bazz.

As best I can tell, the disadvantages in African Americian communities comes down to disadvantaged lives on a large scale. Start at the family unit and work to have more stable households with two parents instead of just one, and the next generation will be better off. There are likely other disadvantages to face and heal, but this is one that might affect that population the most.

A strong cultural shift to teach the young to have standards in relationships, and to wait before having sex might change the dynamic in the African American family. And end one of the biggest disadvantages running rampant in the black lives matter movements.

More black people in the US are killed by other black people, then by cops or by white people. In my opinion if the black lives matter movements want to enact change they need to start by fighting for stable 2 parent families to be the norm.

What hope is there when the problem points the finger at others as being the problem. This Leftist mentality is the cause of these perpetual problems !
Racists accusing others as being racist ! Even initiative to do well is now racist ! To fight against Racism is now racist ! People have become irreversibly stupid !

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Dear Not_Now.Soon,

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You wrote :

« As best I can tell, the disadvantages in African Americian communities comes down to disadvantaged lives on a large scale. Start at the family unit and work to have more stable households with two parents instead of just one, and the next generation will be better off. There are likely other disadvantages to face and heal, but this is one that might affect that population the most »
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Unfortunately, Not_Now.Soon, racial discrimination and poverty create frustration, despair and conflictual relations in many coloured (not just black) families, and lead to their ultimate breakdown.

Discrimination and poverty – injustice and inequality – are the root causes that need to be eliminated or, at least, drastically reduced if the family units are to have any chance at all of remaining intact and flourishing.

That’s where you have to start.

The current mass nation-wide protests in the US following the police killing of George Floyd, an African American (suspected of presenting a counterfeit $20 bill in a supermarket) by slow suffocation in the street, seems to have awakened the consciences of a vast majority of Americans.

Time will tell if it leads to any significant improvement in the lives of America’s coloured citizens and their families.

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Foxy wrote:"You accuse me of making things up but defend Donald Trump?"

Well I didn't ACCUSE you. I DEMONSTRATED that you fudged the data to make it better suit your purposes.

And I don't defend Trump, I defend his policies. You won't understand the difference so I won't bother expounding.

I also defend the truth, so when I see someone just making stuff up in service to their Trump Derangement Syndrome, I call it out.

NNS,

I think you are on the money there.

It is a well-established fact that one of the greatest disadvantages for both adults and children is a dysfunctional family life. Children always do better when they grow up with a father and mother in the household. Women living as single parents are at particular disadvantage. Men living alone, separated from a family or family life, have lower health and life expectancy.

In the 1950s, blacks had higher marriage rates than whites. A black child was more likely to grow up with his biological father and mother than was a white child.

Consequently, black economic disadvantage was much lower in the 1950s than today. A greater proportion of blacks were moving out of poverty than whites and the black middle class was growing faster than the white middle class.

That all changed in the 1960s with various policy changes that attacked the family. It had a very much greater effect on black than white families and now black kids are more likely to not know their father.

Also welfare policies turned poor blacks into government supplicants, totally dependent on the government and government handouts.

All of these disastrous policies were advanced much more thoroughly in Democrat controlled regions than Republican controlled regions. So today you see parts of the US that haven't had any state or city Republican leader for over 50 years - eg Minneapolis, the epicentre of the riots.

That is why the riots, almost exclusively, have occurred in Democrat controlled regions. Blacks in Republican controlled regions do better economically and socially, have less reason to complain and less inclination to destroy their own neighbourhoods.

There is some indication that some of the blacks in these Democrat controlled regions were beginning to realise how they'd been used by the Democrats for decades and were rethinking their political positions. Maybe the riots will re-radicalise these people, and that is why the Democrat leadership encourgaed and enabled the outbreaks of lawlessness.

Not, Now Soon,
Your suggestion of concentration on family life will
help a lot.
However it cannot improve the situation which is a politically
incorrect cause that is unmentionable.