But rich black people also often grew up in a different class. And you forget the inherent prejudices against simply being black in society as well. When you consider that, it isn't much of a surprise. What would really be interesting is if you took a black child and raised him with 2 highly educated professors as parents in a well off neighborhood and he still turned into some crack dealer. That doesn't happen. Because kids like that never meet gangsters in the first place. They go to private schools and then get employed with high paying jobs. They never see that life.
And vice versa. If you look all over the world at impoverished neighborhoods, you see a culture of crime. A narcocultura, if you will. You see it in collapsed economies in South America and Mexico, you see it in Africa, you see it in poor parts of China, Taiwan, and India, you saw it in the Irish and Italian ghettos, you see it in Ukraine, etc.
Children learn what is around them.
The single mom issue is also a product of the poverty and oppression. It becomes difficult for parents to provide enough attention for kids and relationships when they struggle for money. People forget the same pattern of development plagued poor white neighborhoods and continues to do so.
And again, class isn't solely due to money. You see these pro athletes come from the hood, get rich, and they still have the same behavior. It has to do with the environment in which you live, education levels, a sense of security, parental attention, social stability, etc. It's the product of entrenched oppression. The inequality is so enormous that growing up black in America is often like living in a different world entirely in reality in terms of the experiences people face.
These issues have been discussed to death, and Stalin had a great analysis of them. And he was able to raise the overall class of Tsarist Russia to that of the USSR and really surge the education and literacy levels. So much so that even the US adopted some of their methods to try to keep up.
It is a product of social policies. Education is really the key first step. A lot of focus here in the states is on college, but they are ignoring the importance of early education. The US is severely lacking in early education. We also need adult education programs. Stalin was able to mass educate the people and teach peasants to read. We need such systems in America. I would like to see continuing adult education as a permanent facet of our society. But that would require a radical shift in the way we do work and how wealth is distributed in America. It is necessary to lay the foundations for progress and for America and the world's future. The entire population must be educated and armed with the tools of math and science.
Many miscers here grew up in less fortunate conditions than me. They did not have the privilege I had, and they were abandoned by our educational system, which mainly caters to business interests rather than the people as a whole. And you see their animalistic behavior in the way they do drugs, fornicate, defy the laws, and act like savages with no real hope beyond wageslavery or criminality. This is the product of our broken system. Many of you are oppressed and you do not see it. American philosophy teaches you to fault yourself rather than the system in order to force you to accept your lot in life. But you don't have to do that. America can be SO much more. Really, it can.
People try to cope with drugs, games, sex, waifus, etc but really, none of that will lead to liberation. Even chasing a check won't lead to liberation because you become enslaved by your own money and the lifestyle it brings. The only path to liberation is and always has been education. It's why they kept slaves, peasants, etc from learning.
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