Note that he specifically said, “LARGELY DETERMINED”.
Nothing is a cut-and-paste guarantee. There are always exceptions. But by and large, the things Eagle listed will generate better opportunities (an help prevent pitfalls).
And I want to address choices. Even what you linked, @Guilds, shows an example of choices:
Staying or moving can be a choice. (And I’ll preempt the standard counter-argument… OF COURSE that’s not always a choice for every person!)
Also choices in parenting – especially the choice not to have both biological parents in the household. Ditto involvement with kids. Parenting creates either a foundation upon which a kid can grow, or rubble that leads to many of the social and developmental ills that launch a kid in one direction or another.
And given that this is a BLM thread, and therefore should be focused on the black lives that are supposed to matter, many negative choices have become generational in the black demographic.
It is not being ignored, it is trying to be addressed. But too many people are not listening.
Multiple studies have laid out what would work…but it will cost money. A lot of money.
Can’t have that when tax cuts and deregulation are the core issues for Republican donors.
Government won’t change the generational and cultural factors that launch so many black kids in the wrong direction. It has to come from the population itself. It has to come from leaders – black leaders.
BLM could be that. Instead it plays into the negative cultural factors that are so ready to riot and loot.
That is the key argument of that study.
They use statistics, and data to make their case, with many real life examples.
What are you using? Gut feeling? Years of study on the effects of poverty?
Apparently simply moving is not a viable choice for these folks…or they would simply just move.
The problem with listing those factors is the belief that they are unaffected by the system in which they are embedded, and operate in the exact same way no matter what.
They don’t.
This is why citing them alone is shallow and superficial.
They are important factors…there is much in our system that impacts their effectiveness.
It’s easy to say “Be better parents!” or “Make better decisions!”
A lot harder to understand why this often doesn’t happen through little fault of the people involved.
I knoooooow…now I’ll see ya next year and tell me what’s been done in this area…k? You’re part of the group of tail chasers who just kick the can of problems down the road, all while hoping to see that invisible “V” on your forehead when you look in the mirror.
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