Quote (Duckling @ May 19 2021 12:41pm)
You are gaslighting me. Let the rage commence. I know these stories. Selling hardcore drugs, committing crimes sends you to prison. Kids out of wedlock. Give me a break.
I don't think you know what gaslighting means.
Regardless, there are fundamental issues that caused the underlying cultural problems.
When your father was sent to jail because police planted drugs on him, it's hard to see police as anything but a destructive force. When your school district funding is sent overwhelmingly to the white schools to the point that your school has mold growing on the walls it's hard to value education. When banks refuse to give you a home loan because you live in the minority part of town it's hard to value financial systems.
We can talk about cultural problems, but fundamentally you will not solve cultural problems unless you solve the more fundamental problem. That being that the system actively abused and discouraged advancement for most of American history, and arguably to this day.
Have you ever heard of the Tulsa Massacre? There was a part of town in Tulsa that was wealthier than the white parts of town. A black man was accused of assaulting a white woman and it lead to a mob of people arriving to lynch him. The residents refused to turn him over and as a result the white people, lead by the police and with support from the military, firebombing the black neighborhoods. That's what has caused our current problems with race. For the first few hundred years of this country we literally burned down their homes and communities if they dared to get wealthy enough to challenge the status quo. That kind of treatment has only been stopped on paper since the civil rights act, and has continued in other forms since then.