Without going plumb racial in our comments, why do you think there is such a disparity in the incarceration rates and civil behavior between negroes and caucasians?

Obviously there's a big problem here, and yes, I've read a lot of the studies including "The Bell Curve" and so forth.

My contention is the absence of the two parent home in most instances. Nothing would please me more than to have trustworthy neighbors, regardless of ethnic background.

This applies to white single parent households as well as black.

There was an article a couple of weeks ago by Dr Walter Williams that touched on this very thing as he often does.

Here's the link:
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2016/09/07/corrupt-academics-and-the-media-n2214056

I don't want this thread to turn into a name calling session about our cultural differences, but I do want to explore causes and the importance of a healthy family unit.

Nothing wrong with venting, as long as it's valid.

Discuss?

Generational government handouts, NAACP, ACLU and liberals. Period.

As with most discussions about the problem with black culture, today's issues can be traced back to LBJ's Great Society. Before LBJ black families were mostly two parent households and they worked for what little they had.

Oh, by the way, I understand there are exceptions to the single parents ability to raise good kids, I'm talking about the cultural and habitual practice of single parenting.

NOTHING to do with skin color. All about socioeconomic..... From LBJ, the progressive movement preying on blacks, devaluing men, etc.

I think you hit the nail on the head, Bill.

LBJ is responsible for the deterioration of the family unit, especially the Black family unit. Until Welfare and other handout programs, it took two parents working together to support a family. They may have still struggled, but they worked together to provide for a family. In today's society, you're rewarded for having a chit ton of kids out of wedlock, and get more money for each one. If you take that away, they would really think twice about having kids.

It's the difference in the culture and the parenting,simple as that.It doesn't matter what color someone is when exposed to the same things and taught the same things, most of the time they will act the same way.

That is not to say however that any adult isn't responsible for their own behavior.Anyone can change they way they think by changing what they look at and listen to. The fact that so few will change is a testimate to our similarities more than anything.A white kid or a Hispanic kid will act the same as a black kid when exposed to and taught the same things.

I think the behavior of the black culture has been tremendously influenced by the thug rap music.It's a real shame that blacks so embrace the very thing that destroys them.

A dad teaches a boy how to be a man and shows his daughter how a man shepherds the family and treats women.

A mom shows a little hard tail boy how to be compassionate and shows her daughter how to conduct herself as a chaste woman.

You must have both.

Im sure a single parent household doesnt help, but i feel its more the lack of accountability and the sense of entitlement they wear so proud.. my dad has lived in tarrant city most of my life and our office is still in tarrant. Pisses me off that the neighbors NEVER work, yet the kids have new bikes, they grill every night and walk (drag their feet) down the middle of the road ALL DAY LONG. MFer will throw garbage down and when you call them out, they look at me like its my fault...

I refuse to stop at a store in the hood because a guy will shamelessly ask for money, when they drive and wear nicer stuff than i do. Its like im expected to give hand outs. It makes my blood boil.. i could go on and on

Five generations of children having children. How does a 14-16 year old marginally educated mother raise a child in a fatherless home?

We are paying for the situation and it is less than 20% of our population. Why should they work if everything is provided?

Welfare with accountability, drug testing, DNA, education and work programs with penalties for non compliance.

Look Up crime in South Africa and it will shed some light on this issue and You will figure out Who and what is the problem with their kind no matter where they are in this World.

This guy gets it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NAAPC/status/771719467801776128

This goes back way farther than LBJ. Take a look at Africa today, they still live in mud huts and run around with bones in their noses. It has taken them less than 30 years to destroy South Africa after decades of white rule and turn it back basically into Detroit on steroids. In Zimbabwe the natives are wanting whites back in charge! LBJ did plenty of stupid crap but this problem is way deeper than a six year presidency.

So they are an inferior breed? God didn't create them in his image?

The numbers and statistics before LBJ paint a different picture.

I agree with jat50 so best not say much. But they would be a lot better off if they finally realized who is keeping them on the plantation and quit voting democrat.

That might be true but it's because the culture and values taught are older than slavery. I do not believe it is skin color. You can take a white baby and raise him the same way and he acts exactly the same. You can take a black baby and raise him by white upper middle class culture and values and he will act like all the rest of white upper middle class.

Improper upbringing.

I think most people who use violence to solve issues were taught to use violence. Regardless of race, its usually the really dumb people who raise their voice hoping to solve an argument that escalate to using violence. Not proven, just my obaervation.

But on the same hand, you can use the Pitbull vs Lab argument.

several good posts in this thread. couple of lost cause crap posts, too ...