Timequake
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First, let it be known that I am setting all racial etiquette aside in this discussion because I feel this topic is one of the most imperative domestic issues America encounters today.
Over a year ago Bill Cosby publicly acknowledged the harsh standard of living in which he called an “epidemic” found in African American communities throughout the country. Kids are behind in school, if they stay in at all, violence is routine, marriage is a joke. What kind of society are we allowing ourselves to live in? I for one applauded this brave act by Cosby. How can we solve a problem if we are not willing to acknowledge it in the first place? White Liberals and African American leaders are quick to jump on this issue and call it racist, but African American poverty is not just a racial issue, it’s a domestic issue. How can you call Bill Cosby, an advocate for civil rights, racist? The fact is that in these communities, more than any other, children are having children, children aren’t being educated, and it’s considered a norm! Lifestyles where children are being raised not by the mother or father, but by the grandmother or great grandmother is unacceptable and ultimately the root of the problem. But what’s worse is that this lifestyle is being pasted from generation to generation as suitable and while doing so the age of were the problem starts decrease.
What I am asking is, as a nation what can we do? We can’t force people to want to go to school, stop having pre-marital sex, or obey laws. What can the President do?
Now, I’m ready for the backlash which talks of the oppression that the African American community has faced, but what can we do about the past? Nothing. All we can acknowledge is the future, fixing the problems at hand and trying to overcome the barriers that have been set.
Over a year ago Bill Cosby publicly acknowledged the harsh standard of living in which he called an “epidemic” found in African American communities throughout the country. Kids are behind in school, if they stay in at all, violence is routine, marriage is a joke. What kind of society are we allowing ourselves to live in? I for one applauded this brave act by Cosby. How can we solve a problem if we are not willing to acknowledge it in the first place? White Liberals and African American leaders are quick to jump on this issue and call it racist, but African American poverty is not just a racial issue, it’s a domestic issue. How can you call Bill Cosby, an advocate for civil rights, racist? The fact is that in these communities, more than any other, children are having children, children aren’t being educated, and it’s considered a norm! Lifestyles where children are being raised not by the mother or father, but by the grandmother or great grandmother is unacceptable and ultimately the root of the problem. But what’s worse is that this lifestyle is being pasted from generation to generation as suitable and while doing so the age of were the problem starts decrease.
What I am asking is, as a nation what can we do? We can’t force people to want to go to school, stop having pre-marital sex, or obey laws. What can the President do?
Now, I’m ready for the backlash which talks of the oppression that the African American community has faced, but what can we do about the past? Nothing. All we can acknowledge is the future, fixing the problems at hand and trying to overcome the barriers that have been set.