Comments by "Marcus W" (@Mawyou) on "" video.

Okay but how do you attract good teachers who may not want to work (teach) in the 'ghetto'? What if the parents are not educated and cannot help their kids in school? What if it's hard for students to have an appreciation for working really hard in school because: you have no personal role models, you have no guidance, you feel you're not supposed to do well in school because you're black? Also, peer-pressure has a lot to do with it. If you are a black student who goes to school with kids who have not been indoctrinated to value school, you will face TREMENDOUS peer pressure to not stand out as the 'nerd,' in a community where survival is all about strength, where you have few friends if you want to be the smart kid. Also, sometimes the community won't have money to fix the roads or pay for education. And sometimes there may be corruption. Last but not least, everyone expects black people to be less educated, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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In order to survive in a culture, you need to have an appreciation for its history. We know blackface is racist--maybe not in every country, but in America it is. The kid might not be to blame, but his mother should've known better. Somebody was bound to be offended by that the the connotations it represented.
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But that's just it. Blacks are WAYYY more likely to get arrested for drug possession. White kids are more likely to get a slap on the wrist and a "Don't do it again." That's one reason why so many blacks are in prison. Unfair police practices that disproportionately victimize minority communities. They're more likely to go to prison and get a longer sentence for the same offense. Just like how stop and frisk unfairly targets blacks and Latinos when whites are indeed more likely to be caught carrying an illegal drug or weapon. Apparently, minorities just 'look' like the bad guys because of how and where they were born.
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