Explaining the chart is easy and (I'd think) obvious.
Our intellectual elasticity (my own term there) is formed in our younger years, and our parenting plays an out-sized role in that process. Another contributing factor is the culture and environment in which we are raised, and that is further intensified over generations.
American Black children are, far too often and far more than white children, raised without fathers and within a culture that says:
No. Absurd.
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Our intellectual elasticity (my own term there) is formed in our younger years, and our parenting plays an out-sized role in that process. Another contributing factor is the culture and environment in which we are raised, and that is further intensified over generations.
American Black children are, far too often and far more than white children, raised without fathers and within a culture that says:
- Other people are out to get you
- Hard work, self discipline and sacrifice will not work for you
- Standards & expectations will be lowered for you at every opportunity
- People will deflect, excuse, ignore and defend (and thereby enable) your poorer behaviors
- You need other people to make life fair for you
No. Absurd.
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