“Black Lives Matter Focuses On Non Issues. Here’s Why The Black Community Is Poor”

Youtube Vlogger, Josephine Mathias, has some thoughts regarding the Black Condition in America.  I find her thoughts interesting. I won’t say anything beyond that. Just watch the video and share your thoughts below:

What say you, folks?!

 

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5 Comments

  1. She is Nigerian that’s why she feels that way. The three things she listed are in her culture so why did her parents not suceed there?

  2. Philip Bridges says:

    I have to echo what During said. Now look this young lady has a couple of good points relative to culture. Yes there is a culture that exists among many black people that is self defeating. That can’t be denied. But what she and many other black immigrants who come to America fail to recognize is how the culture came to be. Wealth is definitely a contributing factor. Not just from the standpoint of affording a good education but also from the standpoint of being able to move into an environment or neighborhoods that have quality schools. As Duron mentioned one of contributing factors of the wealth gap has alot to do with redlining- while our own government was handing out loans to white people they were handing out public housing to black folks. So that barred black folks from having the ability to pass on wealth to the next generation, leaving them in ghettos. We all know that ghettos don’t get investments as do white neighborhoods. Another contributing factor of how the education disparities came to be has to do with having 95% white teachers who don’t understand the culture of black kids, you have the no tolerance policy that leads to the prison pipeline. You have schools with outdated resources, you have white politicians allowing drugs to infiltrate the community. You have children having to be the caregiver’s of their siblings. While white folks give drug treatment to other white folks they send black folks to jail. You have a whole bunch of issues that got black folks to this position. While she’s spitting out numbers being condescending telling us to keep up she fails to address the fact that once black folks were emancipated they became the fastest growing group to receive an education. They acquired it so fast it drew attention to politicians and businessmen which prompted them to send out superintendents to hinder any further group. She also fails to address or simply don’t know that many black communities in America became so affluent that white folks became so jealous that they destroyed and killed black people and their towns and neighborhoods. So yes she’s correct that the culture needs to change but she’s dead wrong on how to change it. Her little 3 or 4 point plan or suggestions don’t address policies designed to to prevent a growing educated class of blacks. She should do more research into history. Cause to know where you going you got to know where you been. And where we’ve been was to hell and back. We should be praised because after all that’s been done to us, we’re still standing. Maybe on crutches but nevertheless we are standing. So the right solutions include advocating for harsher legislation and policies that economically equals out the playing field, one of which Black Lives Matter do advocate for.

  3. I couldn’t even get through the entire video. As someone who has an undergrad degree in sociology, it made me cringe to hear some of the things that she’s conflating. She also doesn’t seem well-versed on how things like red-lining have kept Black Americans from the American Dream, which is owning wealth (home(s)) in areas that appreciate in value. Or, the systematic de-valuing of African American neighborhoods until gentrification rears its ugly head.

  4. The poverty that poor African Americans experience is often different from the poverty of poor whites. It’s more isolating and concentrated. It extends out the door of a family’s home and occupies the entire neighborhood around it, touching the streets, the schools, the grocery stores.

    A poor black family, in short, is much more likely than a poor white one to live in a neighborhood where many other families are poor, too, creating what sociologists call the “double burden” of poverty.

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