Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "The Officer Tatum"
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Kids playing with toy guns is nothing new. As a child of the 50s we played "Cowboys and Indians" and or violence inspired activities. But we also had a moral upbringing centered on family and church. Our schools were orderly. One teacher often had class of 40 kids. We did not dare get in trouble at school. Because the trouble in school was nothing compared to what you got at home.
This all started to change in the late 60s. That's when the slow at that time explosion of births by single mothers happened. That's when the family started to fall apart in all segments and demographics of society. Saddly for the Black "community" (1) they went into free fall faster than other demographics. Personally I blame three things. First, LBJ's Great Society which greatly expanded the governments role in the lives of the poor (2). Second, The Voting Rights Act which wedded the Black community to the Democratic Party ever since (3). LBJ was quoted on this in the 60s. And thirdly. And most important. The decline of manufacturing jobs in the US starting in the 1970s. Plus their re-location first to the South and then overseas. How many lower income families, Black, White or Hispanic, depended on the income that a father brought home from such employment? How much of those communities indirectly relied on that income as it got spread around to different businesses? This hit the inner cities of places like Chicago, Philidephia, Detroit, Milwaukee and others especially hard.
1) How can anyone call a demographic that large a "community".
2) Well intentioned or not we all know what the road to hell is paved with.
3) Saddly the Democratic Party on the national level seems more concerned with the social safety net than doing things to expand economic opportunities. The poor saddly will likely always be with us. Some us, Black, White, Hispanic, just do not seem to be able to handle money. It burns a hole in our pockets and drifts away. But the best way to ensure economic opportunity is through education. And it starts with schools that do not have to put up with the crap that goes on today.
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