Best way to handle Metro rowdy/teen issues?

[Harlem resident]

And finally ... to the original poster ... ?

If you need to understand, the adolescents cannot behave on the train because they are discouraged from doing well or behaving well by members of their own culture, including their families. Basically, they do not want to be called "high-horse negroes."

That said, leave the train, alert the police, and if it is in your neighborhood, write to the landlord of their building, informing him/her that the tenants are harassing people on the street.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

There's nothing more a parent living in Sursum Corda would love than a white suburbanite from Reston putting his/her hands on their child.

Mmmmm....Reston. The other white meat.

[Agnapostate]

Originally Posted by jmusmc85

But you don't see poor southern whites (aka rednecks, I'm an equal opporunity offender)

Expressing bigoted stereotypes about one outgroup doesn't "balance out" the expression of bigoted stereotypes about another.

Originally Posted by jmusmc85

trying to allow school sytems to accept their english as a legitimate.Only poor (and rich alike) blacks are trying to push Ebonics in school.

Speaking of "blacks" is an obvious generalization, and a crude one, yet this claim is unsupported. The support for categorization of so-called "Ebonics" as a "separate language" in Oakland schools was misguided, but African-American English is certainly a dialect as legitimate as any other. It's attacked as "bad English" due to social and cultural prejudice.

Originally Posted by jmusmc85

Nomesayin dawg???

Not at all.

Originally Posted by jokerstars

Agna is very proud of his new bachelors/masters in [bull**** liberal arts field] and will prove to you how racist and sexist you are ten times over before you can even blink.

I've never been to university; just an unfortunate consequence of being a high school dropout.

Originally Posted by Harlem resident

Unfortunately, it is certainly keeping other people in their places. That would be the "victims," who could use some tough love and standards.

You speak of ethnic minorities condescendingly in this way, as though they're wayward adolescents. More problematically, you've made claims about ethnic and language differences that are refuted by empirical evidence.

[KStreetQB]

Originally Posted by Agnapostate

The support for categorization of so-called "Ebonics" as a "separate language" in Oakland schools was misguided, but African-American English is certainly a dialect as legitimate as any other. It's attacked as "bad English" due to social and cultural prejudice.

It is attacked as bad english because it is bad english.

[Yac]

Right, I think this thread has gone on long enough, way too much off topic, personal posts and emotional outbursts.
Closed.
Yac.