Bold Solutions
Black Lives Matter Part Two22 total reviews
Comment from arnie47
I understand a lot of what you are trying to say, but you attack the problem once it's a problem. We should be working on solutions of not wanting our girls to pick the thugs, but not wanting our girls to pick anyone before they get their education and are ready for not only motherhood, but adulthood. Another thing, instead of really coming down hard on prisoners, shouldn't we be working on ways to prevent them from going there in the first place. Education is of the supreme importance and we should vote for men and women who will fund education and not fund more prisons. We need sentencing reform. I'm tired of seeing young minority men going to prison for something that if a politician did the same thing all he has to do is cry, apologize, and go to rehab. In Texas that rich white kid got off with probation after killing 4 people in his THIRD DUI. Did you know that same judge sent a black teen to prison because he got in a fight, hit a kid, the kid fell, hit his head on a curb and died. Rich kid probation, poor kid jail. Also what about re-training our police to protect instead of profiling and prejudging. I agree, things need to be done, but we have to explore all angles.
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reply by the author on 14-Dec-2014
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I understand a lot of what you are trying to say, but you attack the problem once it's a problem. We should be working on solutions of not wanting our girls to pick the thugs, but not wanting our girls to pick anyone before they get their education and are ready for not only motherhood, but adulthood. Another thing, instead of really coming down hard on prisoners, shouldn't we be working on ways to prevent them from going there in the first place. Education is of the supreme importance and we should vote for men and women who will fund education and not fund more prisons. We need sentencing reform. I'm tired of seeing young minority men going to prison for something that if a politician did the same thing all he has to do is cry, apologize, and go to rehab. In Texas that rich white kid got off with probation after killing 4 people in his THIRD DUI. Did you know that same judge sent a black teen to prison because he got in a fight, hit a kid, the kid fell, hit his head on a curb and died. Rich kid probation, poor kid jail. Also what about re-training our police to protect instead of profiling and prejudging. I agree, things need to be done, but we have to explore all angles.
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reply by the author on 14-Dec-2014
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I am attacking the problem before it becomes one. I said one solution is to teach our young girls not to choose thugs, but to assume a good boy is a hindrance to a young woman to incorrect. A good man can lift a woman up and they can encourage each other. To preach that a young woman shouldn't have anyone, is unrealistic. Nature will draw males and females together, that is a historical fact. I am merely trying to direct what cannot be stopped.
Perhaps you missed it, but the prison section was related to stopping gangs, which were born inside prisons. I have worked in prisons for many years, sir and I have seen things most people do not see.
Yes, I read the story about the wealthy white teen from Texas. I have also taken many poor blacks to court and watched them get away with murder, and see them laugh on the van ride back. These cases never get media attention. Again, the public knows nothing about this.
Most people have no idea, how many poor blacks get multiple times on probation and continue to commit crimes, shoot, rob and attack people. The public has no idea. You are from Chicago as am I. The adult court on 26th and California is open to the public. I would invite you to spend a week there and watch. You will be amazed and shocked at what you see. I know what schools, the media and what people think. It is a myth. Do not listen to me, go and see with your own eyes.
This is only part two, sir. I have other parts and essays I have written about racial profiling.
I would invite you to check my portfolio and ask that you do not judge a section of solutions as the whole.
Remember, the last line of this post where I mentioned the next part would cover school, drugs and the legal system.
Comment from Julia.
Well, you haven't offended me, but then I'm pretty thick-skinned. I think you make some pretty good points about the attractiveness of gang membership and why poor women (of any color) have so many children.
I remember a class discussion from way back in high school where we looked at something called "opportunity cost". If a single woman who has a job, for example, has a child, she has a high opportunity cost because she has to figure out how to care for the child and continue to work for support herself. Even a married couple considering children have a high opportunity cost as children cost money and take time. These types of people are more likely to carefully consider their decisions to have children and only do so because they really want the children. As opposed to an unemployed woman welfare. Another child for her has a low opportunity cost. She gives up very little and gets a larger check each month. Anyway, that's pretty simplified because it would take a whole long essay to really delve into the subject. But I found it interesting.
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Well, you haven't offended me, but then I'm pretty thick-skinned. I think you make some pretty good points about the attractiveness of gang membership and why poor women (of any color) have so many children.
I remember a class discussion from way back in high school where we looked at something called "opportunity cost". If a single woman who has a job, for example, has a child, she has a high opportunity cost because she has to figure out how to care for the child and continue to work for support herself. Even a married couple considering children have a high opportunity cost as children cost money and take time. These types of people are more likely to carefully consider their decisions to have children and only do so because they really want the children. As opposed to an unemployed woman welfare. Another child for her has a low opportunity cost. She gives up very little and gets a larger check each month. Anyway, that's pretty simplified because it would take a whole long essay to really delve into the subject. But I found it interesting.
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Comment Written 14-Dec-2014
reply by the author on 14-Dec-2014
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Thank you very much. Yes, I agree with the opportunity cost. I think welfare upsets the natural balance a family would have.