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- GOOD PARENTS:
The Key
To Black Progress
BAD PARENTS:
The Root Cause of
Many Community Issues © 2016
“All Vices and Virtues start in the home”
MAYA ANGELOU
Here are some traits of good parents. Good parents:
• Teach their children not to allow society’s grievances to overshadow their opportunities.
• Make sure their children are actually attending school. (A recent study reported that Detroit students missed more school days than any other school district in the country.)
• Know where their children are and don’t allow their children to be out late at night.
• Don’t leave loaded guns around where children can access them.
• Teach their children the difference between right and wrong from day one.
• Teach their children to be polite, to respect others, their opinions and their property.
• Teach by example, and don’t clown or argument with others in public.
• Teach their children money is important and a neccessity, but how they get money is just as important. Stealing from others or selling drugs is unacceptable.
• Education is crucial, and if they want a better life, they must make education a priority.
• Set high academic expectations for their children and put limits on social and electronic distractions.
• Teach their children to respect human life - GOOD PARENTS:
The Key
To Black Progress
BAD PARENTS:
The Root Cause of
Many Community Issues © 2016
“All Vices and Virtues start in the home”
MAYA ANGELOU
The black community has never been bashful about expressing its opinion on any subject. It has protested and expressed its outrage over fatal police shootings, the Flint water crisis, Gov. Snyder, Donald Trump, downtown Detroit developments, and more. But there’s one issue you can’t pay the black community to tackle head-on. It’s bad parenting and its impact.
Black leaders and black poverty pimps are very good at talking about the problems affecting the black community. Nearly always, they blame society, the government, Republicans, the Tea Party, the police, racists, and the bogeyman of the month for our predicament.
The way some of them see it, unemployment, poor schools, low achievement, poverty, failing cities, and crime are all the result of external factors visited upon the black community.
Black “leaders” have been making the same argument for over 50 years. But how well has that argument been working for us? Not very well.
In too many cases, the root cause of much crime, unemployment, school drop-out rates, low student achievement, and rundown neighborhoods, is related to bad parenting. However, when you’ve been conditioned to think like a victim, you may take issue with that view.
But if you look at most successful people black or white, good parenting played a major role. If we don’t get this parenting thing right, our race will never reach its social, political and economic potential. It’s just that important.