Kareem Abdul Jabbar Sums Up Ferguson. Not Kidding.

[Aaron]

I actually didn't know gossip girls were on snap chat. I thought it was for pervs and fun loving dykes.

[Aaron]

I guess fun loving dykes can also be gossip girls... I didn't mean to SEGREGATE the two... (see how I kept from getting off topic)

[nordictruce]

Being raised around enough "hood" guys and girls to know, this entire argument is utter bullshit.


If I put james the guy living in the hood, in talented and gifted classes while he was in Jr High, gave him a free ride to go to school, he's still going to go home to the hood, he's still going to go hang out on the corner, and he's still going to go to hoodish thug type shit. This is not a financial issue.


you want to know the real problem? And no one in this thread has come close to hitting on it.



SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS.



that's your problem in this sense. Want to stop raising kids that think it's okay to be on the street at night and not studying? You want kids to work hard and get jobs and not rob you? Daddy needs to be at home. Dad needs to be a role model, not a thug, and not somewhere in prison, and not someone you just get a check from once a month


you can draw a direct line between the boom in divorces and single parent house holds, and poverty / crime. The kids from the hood with 2 parents, generally, turn out much much better than the kids with one parent. The kids that come from middle/ upper middle class with one parent, still turn out more f**k up than the kids with 2 parents.

My dad is the youngest of 4, grew up DIRT poor. Literally, had a tree growing in the middle of the living room. They were too poor to do anything about it. The oldest is kinda out there, or was but he's gotten his act together, his sister is a nurse and has raised a professional basketball player and a lawyer, his other older brother graduated a year early, but died from sickle cell complications in his 20's, and my dad owns his own business and has raised me, a successful entrepreneur, and another son who is in school to be a nurse right now.


you know how many girls I know from one parent house holds where the mom made really good money and the girl turns out to be some slut of the earth lol, spending her time doing drugs and finding herself and all that shit? You know how many dudes from single parent house holds I know who spend their youth following the wrong people and end up doing stupid shit like drugs

But everyone will dance around the issue, becuase that would suggest that a woman actually needs a man for something and well, that's just not going to happen.

[The Dharma Bum]

how can you be too poor to chop a tree down?

[Spider]

If they were that poor it might have been a load bearing part of the structure....?

[nordictruce]

[Mr. Shaman]

[spacemonkey]

Being a minority today (any minority), is NOT a pre requisite for being poor, or having economic or financial difficulties. Although, a hundred and fifty years ago, that may have been true.