Good Parenting:
The Overlooked Key
To Black Progress
Bad Parenting:
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 collective opinion on any given 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 or give serious discussion to: it’s the effects of bad parenting that are absolutely rampant where we live.
Black leaders and black poverty pimps are very good at talking about the problems affecting the black community. When you listen to them, they nearly always 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.
Granted, there is a smidgen of truth in what they say. However, it’s just a smidgen. Black “leaders” have been making the same argument for over 50 years. But let’s get real. How well has that argument been working for us? Not very well.
Most black “leaders” and media regulars have made a very good living peddling black misery and blaming racism for everything bad that happens to us.
But their approach does us more harm than good. Their approach has turned us into perpetual victims who believe we cannot succeed without the permission of Whites. But what if these “leaders” flipped the script and encouraged us to focus more on our self-inflicted, internal issues.
Then, we would begin to see our group making much faster progress. The place to start is the family, be it a single parent family or a two-parent family.
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 role. If we don’t this parenting thing right, our race will never reach its social, political and economic potential. It’s just that important.
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
The Overlooked Key
To Black Progress
Bad Parenting:
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 collective opinion on any given 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 or give serious discussion to: it’s the effects of bad parenting that are absolutely rampant where we live.
Black leaders and black poverty pimps are very good at talking about the problems affecting the black community. When you listen to them, they nearly always 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.
Granted, there is a smidgen of truth in what they say. However, it’s just a smidgen. Black “leaders” have been making the same argument for over 50 years. But let’s get real. How well has that argument been working for us? Not very well.
Most black “leaders” and media regulars have made a very good living peddling black misery and blaming racism for everything bad that happens to us.
But their approach does us more harm than good. Their approach has turned us into perpetual victims who believe we cannot succeed without the permission of Whites. But what if these “leaders” flipped the script and encouraged us to focus more on our self-inflicted, internal issues.
Then, we would begin to see our group making much faster progress. The place to start is the family, be it a single parent family or a two-parent family.
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 role. If we don’t this parenting thing right, our race will never reach its social, political and economic potential. It’s just that important.
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