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Hey, that's good news. So, 53 percent of Detroit is literate? Yeah!
(Sorry I am so late to this thread. I hope that my joke was not already made. I did not have time to go through all the pages, since the joke was literally trying to burst out of my skin, akin to Alien, if I did not immediately post it. If this joke has already been made, my apologies. If not, then it should have been).
And the civil rights movement of the 60's ended all that.
So 50 years later where are we ?
How many generations of Blacks since the 60's have not had these barriers ?
Black kids entering school today have more opportunities than some of their counterpart middle class White kids to attend college due to government money.
It's NOT money because the money is there for any that want to make use of it.
Right because 50 years is ancient history. Right because people who are in their 20s now don't have parents that are 50 years old. Because as we all now the past has no bearing to the present. Of course everybody knows that if your grand parents were had wealth that doesn't have any bearing on success...
No.
Black kids entering in schools are affected by the fact that their parents did not have the same opportunities. It's pretty basic.
They're all poor. I would guess that poor white areas in West Virginia or elsewhere in Appalachia have similar reading challenges.
The big difference is that the city school systems have vast sums of money pumped into them, rural areas do not
Still, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, for the state of West Virginia, McDowell County has the highest percentage of adults without basic literacy skills at 22 percent.
Right because 50 years is ancient history. Right because people who are in their 20s now don't have parents that are 50 years old. Because as we all now the past has no bearing to the present. Of course everybody knows that if your grand parents were had wealth that doesn't have any bearing on success...
No.
Black kids entering in schools are affected by the fact that their parents did not have the same opportunities. It's pretty basic.
Neither of my parents nor my grandparents went to college.
Me and my siblings are the first in my family line to graduate college and all of us had to do it on our dime. My father had a blue collar job so we didn't grow up in the suburbs. Heck..I didn't have my own room till I moved out. 5 kids, 2 adults in a 3 bedroom apt in NYC.
2 of us did it on the GI bill.
3 did it on student loans.
Right because 50 years is ancient history. Right because people who are in their 20s now don't have parents that are 50 years old. Because as we all now the past has no bearing to the present. Of course everybody knows that if your grand parents were had wealth that doesn't have any bearing on success...
No.
Black kids entering in schools are affected by the fact that their parents did not have the same opportunities. It's pretty basic.
Not their "parents" because many of their parents are in their 20's in these schools. Try grandparents or even great grandparents.
Right because 50 years is ancient history. Right because people who are in their 20s now don't have parents that are 50 years old. Because as we all now the past has no bearing to the present. Of course everybody knows that if your grand parents were had wealth that doesn't have any bearing on success...
No.
Black kids entering in schools are affected by the fact that their parents did not have the same opportunities. It's pretty basic.
Oh dear God. Blaming this on something that happened 50+ years ago, again?
You don't see Asians blaming their problems on past discrimination.
Oh dear God. Blaming this on something that happened 50+ years ago, again?
You don't see Asians blaming their problems on past discrimination.
it is all they have. They have been brought up to see themselves as victims and that they can't ahead no matter what all because of whitey. It is BS of course but they have some excuse for the fact that refuse to accept personal responsibility for their own actions.
Oh dear God. Blaming this on something that happened 50+ years ago, again?
You don't see Asians blaming their problems on past discrimination.
Every race has discrimination in their past. Yet they all overcame it and most without government help and their succeeding generations were each better off.
Bill Cosby has stated quite well what the problem is and pissed off many community leaders.
it is all they have. They have been brought up to see themselves as victims and that they can't ahead no matter what all because of whitey. It is BS of course but they have some excuse for the fact that refuse to accept personal responsibility for their own actions.
It's not really just a "refusal to accept personal responsibility." If you're brought up in a ghetto, that's all you know, there is nothing to aspire to within your view of the world. They see generation after generation all living the same way with not enough role models to show them the way out, that there is a better way to live. It takes a good education to open up the world of possibilities and a good education is not the norm in ghetto areas. The riots of the 60s did help build the ghettos in Detroit because after the riots newer areas became walled communities, drawing clearer lines between the haves and the have nots.
It's not really just a "refusal to accept personal responsibility." If you're brought up in a ghetto, that's all you know, there is nothing to aspire to within your view of the world. They see generation after generation all living the same way with not enough role models to show them the way out, that there is a better way to live. It takes a good education to open up the world of possibilities and a good education is not the norm in ghetto areas. The riots of the 60s did help build the ghettos in Detroit because after the riots newer areas became walled communities, drawing clearer lines between the haves and the have nots.
This is nothing but BS and has already been proven wrong by the ones that do make it out and better themselves. Try again but this time don't use your progressive lies like that.
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