Do you know why black neighborhoods are often dangerous places to live? Could this be the reason...

[PS5 Pro]

It goes back to the days of slavery. America is the only place known throughout history that wouldn't allow slaves to be educated. Why would they do such a thing...

Education during the slave period in the United States - Wikipedia

Finally, literacy was believed to make the enslaved unhappy at best, insolent and sullen at worst. As put by prominent Washington lawyer Elias B. Caldwell:

The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them, in their present state. You give them a higher relish for those privilegies which they can never attain, and turn what we intend for a blessing [slavery] into a curse. No, if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the lowest state of degradation and ignorance. The nearer you bring them to the condition of brutes, the better chance do you give them of possessing their apathy.[2]

Nonetheless, both free and enslaved African Americans continued to learn to read as a result of the sometimes clandestine efforts of free African Americans, sympathetic whites, and informal schools that operated furtively during this period

Ain't no apathy in the hood, but there are a lot of liquor stores

 

[OfTheCross]

Lack of investment and ownership, imo.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Lack of investment and ownership, imo.

it starts with education. Low education = low income. Low income means less purchasing power. If investment won’t arrive if people aren’t spending enough for them to recoup that investment.

 

[Serious]

Education and health go hand in hand.
But education also introduces you to new concepts and ways thinking.

 

[OfTheCross]

it starts with education. Low education = low income. Low income means less purchasing power. If investment won’t arrive if people aren’t spending enough for them to recoup that investment.

When I said investment I meant from the government. I would like better schools in those areas.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

When I said investment I meant from the government. I would like better schools in those areas.

Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools and most of it was wasted on consultants and administrative pay. Throwing money at the problem doesn't fix shyt.

Money doesn't teach the importance of education. The problem is bigger than schools. Schools are basically being forced to raise children which shouldn't be the case.

 

[Piff Perkins]

When I said investment I meant from the government. I would like better schools in those areas.

How, when the tax base is often depleted? Not to mention local state budgeting that siphons money to smaller, whiter areas while fukking over cities. Everything is being done to keep inner city, black schools underwater. I'd imagine things are better in places like Atlanta where there is more purchasing power, but Detroit? Cleveland? Lot of places like that have strangled black growth. And now they're being gentrified and black people are being forced to surrounding suburbs.

 

[OfTheCross]

How, when the tax base is often depleted? Not to mention local state budgeting that siphons money to smaller, whiter areas while fukking over cities. Everything is being done to keep inner city, black schools underwater. I'd imagine things are better in places like Atlanta where there is more purchasing power, but Detroit? Cleveland? Lot of places like that have strangled black growth. And now they're being gentrified and black people are being forced to surrounding suburbs.

The National government has to invest. I know locally there isn't much money.

Nationally we need to have a standard for education in public schools and actually adhere to it and fund it.

Programs like the CRA are already used to invest in and improve poor communities in cities (your results may vary depending on your local government), but I'd say we also need something like that for rural areas

Framework is there. Just gotta use it

 

[DEAD7]

Poverty.

 

[G-Zeus]

way i see it... if someone is not "lower" than the poor whites... they would burn the country down..

the government seeing how crazy they get gave them "the slave patrol" to feel superior....and they are keeping blacks down to keep those people at bay..

the difference between them and blacks is that they will take action not fearing losing their lives.. black people people of slavery are literal "survivors"... most of us are unlikely to do things that would potentially kills us were offsprings of the ones that didnt jump over boat...

it's basically a match made in heaven for them..

its why i keep my eyes on the elections and post elecions this much... i wanna see how much they evolved

 

[greenvale]

delete

 

[TryObsidian?]

You guys are slow

Educate young black males that is it.

We straight up never tried it. We only Push for education of black women exclusively. We specifically separate black boys from education sectors. See the promotion of thugs and entertainers from both black and white media.

Y'all be blaming white media but black media does the same shyt, these people grow up and not only destroy their homes but they create influence and others copy them.

Promote black boys as responsible but not fukking weak obviously, and people will copy them....

 

[Danktoker94]

Reality is home ownership is a huge but lack of investments in education and health will create a terrible combination

 

[EndDomination]

There are a bunch of obvious reasons: (1) Black people are poor as an ethnic group resulting from systemic racism and mass disinvestment; (2) Black neighborhoods were formed by deliberate red-lining, segregation, and apartheid policies; (3) they were purposely developed by shoddy developers that destroyed the savings of Black residents; (4) systemic factors continue to cut off funding to majority Black neighborhoods, there is no independent corporate funder pouring billions into Black neighborhoods to keep them, Black.

Education plays a role - but is both a symptom and a cause. Black people were and continue to be undereducated in the US, which leads to both brain-drain and sustained austerity regarding majority-Black public schools in the US. They do not get the proper funding, the students of the school do not have the proper funding, and they tend to be located in under-served areas. Private schools are a popular form of segregation, and the highest performing Black students are pulled into them or magnet schools.

Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor's book Race for Profit is a must-read:
Race for Profit | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | University of North Carolina Press

As well as Manning Marable's book How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America.
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

 

[EndDomination]

You guys are slow

Educate young black males that is it.

We straight up never tried it. We only Push for education of black women exclusively. We specifically separate black boys from education sectors. See the promotion of thugs and entertainers from both black and white media.

Y'all be blaming white media but black media does the same shyt, these people grow up and not only destroy their homes but they create influence and others copy them.

Promote black boys as responsible but not fukking weak obviously, and people will copy them....

This isn't true. It isn't even "sort of" true.
There has never been a point in history where there was "only" a push to educate Black girls. And it isn't the beginning or the end of the reason why Black neighborhoods are dangerous and impoverished. The "promotion of thugs and entertainers" doesn't have much to do with it either.

Black girls and women underperform on an education and wages level as well - even with this supposed "push" you're referring to. Just saying "educate" doesn't mean anything. Reading, writing, mathematics, and critical-thinking skills have to be developed early - but so does the drive to learn and to continue in education.

Media isn't the reason why this phenomenon has been playing out for over a century. The underfunding of Black schools, the lack of support for Black teachers, the cut to outside programs, mass-incarceration starting in juvenile detention, and parental poverty all play a major role.