Why do poor black women keep having babies?

kfoxx1998 wrote: modelbusiness82 wrote: TiffanyinTX wrote: Just throwing this out there, does it have less to do with worshipping white people and more to do with what people's perception of healthy cultural ideals are? I don't get the "worship white people" angle. If ALL black people really did "worship white people", then less black people would be dropping out of school, having unplanned pregnancies, joining gangs, etc. This is a cultural mindset problem, plain & simple. All things that came directly from white culture.

I'm not one to defend white people as they have plenty of help in that department. But how is the white community telling you to have teen pregnancies and drop out of school? We're in a post Brown vs. The Board of Ed Topeka Kansas world. No one is literally barring you from entering a classroom based on skin color. You very well may live in a crap school district, but no one is literally stopping you from attempting to achieve an education. We're in a post slavery & post Loving vs. State of VA world as well, white people aren't forcing you to have sex with anyone anymore to create more slaves.

Not attacking you Kfoxx, but I get tired of this "it's ALWAYS someone else's fault for my shortcomings" mentality that many black people love to adopt. Again, a lack of personal accountability. Instead of saying "I chose to drop out so I could hang with my crew and do whatever else", it's easier to say someone else prevented you. 

My grandfather was a sharecropper from VA who never went past the 4th grade because he had to drop out to work the farm to help his family. He literally ran from VA in his teens because he was falsely accused of a crime and they would have lynched him. Yet he managed to put his children (one of them my mother) through college and created his own successful business during the civil rights era in NJ, in a sector normally controlled by white people (construction). If my grandfather could overcome SOME VERY REAL obstacles to do well for himself, anyone growing up outside of a Jim Crow era with more opportunities to obtain an education has NO EXCUSE to claim "someone's trying to hold me back".

It is the above reality in my family tree which pushes me to work hard. I have no excuses for failure because I for damn sure wasn't born behind the 8 ball in negative circumstances like my grandfather.

Printer_Ink wrote: However the tax rate is extremely high. That's the trade off. You have high taxes but EVERYONE gets a decent roof over their head and food and healthcare etc.

My grandfather was raise in the deep south .. all sorts of horrible things were a part of his daily life but he worked as a Jainitor - cleaned toliets for a living, while my grandmpther took in laundry.

how did we go from sharecropping to gang banging?


Edited by SamoneLenior - Mar 07 2013 at 2:06pm

Over here it seems you got high taxes with no guarantee of a decent roof over your head, food and fucced up healthcare.  I was just tellin' my mom about possibly relocating to Denmark or The Netherlands in 4 year or so.  America is run thru.