Well, perhaps you'll be comforted by the fact that you're consistantly partisan:
If you can't be topical, then post something moronic about the Tea Party.
Back to the regularly scheduled program:
Is there ANYTHING MORE that Anyone can do for young black males?
Frankly, I'm beginning to believe, as evidenced by these riots, that perhaps the culture that was created with slavery has so damaged African Americans that they cannot survive regardless of anything that is done to resuscitate it.
There are no easy answers, all I can say is that there are no quick fixes to the problems in the black community and that nobody else is going to be able to fix it, it has to come from the inside.
I completely agree, HG. Actually, the worst of the problems seem to be concentrated in a relatively small subset of Black inner-city youth, which seems to have taken the worst aspects of a variety of American cultures, and put them together in their own subculture. It is a particularly dangerous brew, and I get a sense that the larger Black community is not at all sure how it wants to deal with the problem, or for that matter, if it can. The simple , obvious solutions have been tried, pretty much with no real positive result, leaving more questions than promising answers. It's really a unique societal problem; how do you "fix" a broken subculture, when there is no way to cut off what it feeds on, and the thing has no real structure to work on, to begin with.? Even if we could fix most of the ills associated with urban poverty, that subculture might persist; it seems to have reached a point in some places where it has a life of its own, at least partially independent of the environment. There is one caveat here, and it can be summed up in the words, "You can't stop us.". Well that depends. As of now, it may pay to threaten the dominant culture with violence....so long as it is easier for the dominant culture to simply cave to perceived demands, and put a band-aid on the problem, than to deal with the problem. IF, however, the problem becomes intractable enough, and big enough, then, at some point undetermined, a tipping point will be reached, where the dominant culture is forced to solve the problem the way such problems are solved when they get severe enough; massive force. There's only one way that can end; society as a whole can (and will, if sufficiently threatened), bring to the party a much bigger toolkit that a bunch of untrained kids, and the result will be ugly. We can all hope that does not become necessary, but the prospect is a concern not to be lightly dismissed.
