Orlando Patterson - Understanding Black Youth

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

Thanks! I have been looking for some information on this subject! GOOD TEACHING! THANKS! 😊

[@stephaniesmith6643]

A lot of words, but what is he getting at???

[@londonbowcat1]

Black is a social construct

[@donpelayo4496]

Tropezientos buenos días a este hombre

[@sergiyavorski9977]

But if they have the right values, how did it happen that that have become single moms?

[@McWilliam07]

Maybe that’s not a question for the moms’ values. Maybe that’s more of a question for the dads’ values. Not sure the moms set out to intentionally have a life where they were working two jobs and raising a child. There had to be a father who made the choice to abandon.

[@stephaniesmith6643]

@Sergi Yavorski: Your question is totally on point. Problem is that most avoid facing the ramifications of the decay of sexual morality.

[@AmiaP91]

@@McWilliam07 not inherently true. Thanks to the democrats and the introduction of the welfare system where they told us mothers that if the father is not in the home we will issue you out more TANF (Money) and more food stamps. This was a no brainer for most black mothers who saw this as a cop out to not have to work and actually earn wages but they could lay up make baby after baby and careless about if the father was present because the government is not their new "baby daddy" This does not account for all mothers and specifically all black mothers. Even married and with 2 incomes I'm grateful there's assistance available to help us until we are strong and financially stable enough to help ourselves. But this is the reality of our world today.

[@johnzadock1119]

He mentions hip hop culture. I think this should not be under estimated for the deleterious effect it's having on blacks. Straight up encouraging criminality. Then one must consider who owns/ controls the arteries of culture. Gucci Mane writes about this in his auto biography.

[@ramsayreid]

Rap songs are about the violent culture, it doesn't bring on the violent culture. Murder violence and destruction are a way of life for these people. 100,000+ On the African continent and not much has changed or evolved there since the beginning. That is until the white man came along and introduce them to technology. Now that the whites have left they have digressed.

[@donpelayo4496]

UN GRANDE!

[@mattt3063]

Read the article he has in NY times from 2015

[@londonbowcat1]

Or the 1993 article back lash

[@maxwellbook6625]

"...the problems of Black youth" Something is not right about this statement.

[@ramsayreid]

Just more perpetual victim rambling.

[@ramsayreid]

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