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The parent is to be faulted for that. Whenever little children behave like that, where do they get it from? It comes from parenting, or the lack of it.
Of course it is. Seeing a video like that actually makes me furious. Where on earth did she get the idea that acting like this is acceptable?
Green we're products of our enviroment. I could take that boy and with in a few weeks he'd be a different boy altogether but unless you're willing to support forced removal of children from poor parents who aren't doing any physical harm to their kids. What do you want us to do?
We all know why he's like that but there's very little we can do to stop it and it sure doesn't mean society has to put up with his inevitable criminal antics when he gets older because he has a bad mom.
It is not even a matter of being poor. It's a matter of common sense. You can be raised poor and still come out okay. Poverty is part of it. Another part of it is not knowing how to raise a child or simply neglecting a child. I've seen middle class White children behave similar to that. I should know because I have lived around it.
It is not even a matter of being poor. It's a matter of common sense. You can be raised poor and still come out okay. Poverty is part of it. Another part of it is not knowing how to raise a child or simply neglecting a child. I've seen middle class White children behave similar to that. I should know because I have lived around it.
My use of "poor" refers to the quality of parenting not their financial circumstances. I know from first hand experience that having financially poor parents does not equate to the parenting witnessed in the video.
It's about time. The demographic that got hurt the worst from this latest recession is the black population. Socio-economic gains that took years to build have been erased and it is about time that black organizations addressed it. And yes, I do blame Obama for much of this. This downward spiral occurred on his watch. He was also in a unique position to try to change the acceptable mores of our community and serve as a role model, which he still seems to have no interest in doing. The only time he seemed to directly address some of the special problems facing our youth was over the Trayvon Martin case, and that was an occasion when he should have kept out of it.
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Well that's no surprise.
God, stuff like this makes my skin crawl. I suppose Kentuckians feel the same way when people from the Appalachian mountains end up on one of these videos, but it just seems like there are more making black people look like fools out there. These "ladies" do NOT represent black women. What makes me cringe the most is the behavior of the children, who clearly are growing up thinking this is how you interact with people in society.
Some seem to believe that the 'in yo face' attitude is part of their cultural identity. And the legitimization and glorification of that 'culture' by supporting media and entertainment that depicts and promotes it is as much to blame as are the poor ignorant souls who live it. When exactly did 'arrogance' 'attitude' and 'swagger' start becoming desired personality traits? What a pathetic society we live in.
It looked to me like she sicced the kids on the guy, to me. I really would like to know what the whole thing was about at the beginning. This is a good example of how insignificant things can result in big trouble where nobody but the original participants know what started it.
I can't wait for you to call Sharpton and Cornell West black conservatives next because they dared to pressure Obama on an issue that is important to them.
Nobody is saying "we should have voted for Romney" they just want more attention from a voting demographic which has been taken for granted by the administration.
...and the minute they dared utter a single peep of discontent on a single topic....you start saying they are trying to act white, they are conservatives etc etc? He's the freakin' head of the NAACP or did you miss that?
The last time president Obama tried to address the issues of the African American community,Glen Beck and Bill O'reilly called him a racist for a week, 4 white men from Texas created a college fund for white only, 3 senators held press conferences saying "we need to worry about ALL americans".
im not saying Barack should do nothing, in fact he has done alot for african Americans by expanding free GED and professional development courses as well as tuition subsidies for those intering work force certification programs ( networking(CISCO), welding, Automotive repair, Nursing programs, programming, Land Scaping and so on . The problem is when he specifically mentions these programs, he is labeled racist by the right, or said to be not worried about the rest of the nation, or pandering to one group. It is sad.
There is also the problem of your argument, Mathguy. Black unemployment continues to go up because more african Americans are entering the work force(percentage wise) than whites. So these people arent being fired, these are 18 and 19 y/o who cant find jobs. African American unemployment also usually runs twice that of whites. Even under clinton, when the Overall unemployment was 3.9%, it was 8% among african Americans.
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