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Amy's avatar

Clifton, interesting as always. My two cents, I grew up comfortably middle class until my parents divorced. After that, my dad struggled more than he would have liked because of child support and I grew up basically in poverty because my mom (with a college degree) couldn’t find a well paid position for most of my childhood. My elementary school was filled with single mothers, the recently divorced, recent immigrants/refugees, and low-income blue collar workers. Long way of saying, in my opinion the future lies in teaching kids to make better choices than their parents but the need now is to get the kids in poverty the tools (nutritional, emotional, psychological, and educational) that they probably aren’t getting at home.

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Excellent piece. Validates what Sowell wrote about years ago in his book Wealth, Poverty and Politics.

Couple of comments…until someone or some organization steps up and shows leadership to talk about the importance of education and family on a national and consistent scale, this dynamic will not change in a material manner. The battle will be uphill as the msm and far let refuse to acknowledge the facts. Case in point…the book referenced here where a two parent family is considered a “ privilege”. What family anyone is borne into is beyond their control. However, the left has co opted the word “ privilege”. Privilege my friends, is achievement compounded. Your parents and their parents etc made overall good decisions that got a family to any success. As noted here, Asian parents are ahead of the pack. This goes back to when the first Asian immigrants arrived here with nothing and they realized for their kids to do better, education and family were the keys. Paid off. The msm media never brings up the success of Asian Americans, or the millions of successful black Americans. Add in the mix politicians and teachers unions that are more concerned with staying in power vs the kids education, and the problem gets worse. I’ll wrap up with a question for all to ponder…what if BLM focused on driving the “success sequence” and the importance of family and education into communities vs gender and defund the police issues?

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