| You're totally off topic. > too little focus on education > and they can only be dealt with by the black community itself In part this is a side effect of how schools (and their extracurriculars) are funded in the US. As well as voluntary segregation following the elimination of legal segregation. > fatherless/broken homes And for some subset of these homes this is a result of targeted criminal statutes at the state and federal levels. E.g. crack versus cocaine, marijuana versus opiods. Sure, communities need to look to their own health. But as I stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34760078 "it's a lot easier to cast away bad coping mechanisms when major sources of stress disappear. Asking people to cast away bad coping mechanisms and to develop good habits before removing the stress is basically asking them to be superheroes." Edit to add: If people think they are going to be chopped down if they succeed, they are much less likely to try at all. There's a long history of the majority population and government allowing, or even encouraging, the chopping down of successful black people and communities. |