Why do you think they're struggling tho, did they tell ya. Are you sure there isn't something you can't ascribe to systemic issues
As someone who grew up in the ghetto, and then moved to a different ghetto in LA and just lived there essentially as an outsider there is a huge difference between growing up in these areas and just living there
A collection of poor individual choices, bad direction from what little parenting they had, generational poverty and drug/alcoholism
Yeah definitely. The lack of exposure to different situations would lead to less faith in the future and more means to want to like do anything about it to end up better than the rest
I talk to my friend from Vegas all the time and like some of our friends are just dumb and have been dumb and continue to make dumb choices.
You can ascribe a lot of these things to systematic experiences. Poor individual choices from a lack of proper parenting due to the fact that they had to work a fuckload to support them and their parents parents probably didn't have much wisdom to pass down either for the same reason. Generational poverty and coping w drugs as well of course
being able to point out causation only gets you so far; it doesn't directly logically imply what the correct thing to do about it is or how culpable the police of today are or what the best way to reduce animosity from both sides of poor idiots / asshole police etc
Can't pay for a real education or afford to put time into it without any return when they're trying to avoid going homeless or hungry etc. I doubt they get the same opportunity as we do when it comes to loans and stuff, or that they would just know how to have good credit lol
bro.. why are you assuming peoples parents are out here working lmao I knew a guy who’s mom sold crack for a living
True. I'm not sure how we would fix those things. But atleast identifying that there is a larger issue at play seems like a good start
My high school had a 50% graduation rate, that means half of the student population was finishing 12 years of school without a HS diploma, I regularly was in classes where a vast majority of students were failing with an F. I used to have a photo of a piece of paper my English teacher hung up on the wall with everyone’s grades and literally everyone in this class of like 30 something people was failing
if it were a good start then we'd probably have made more unambiguous progress by now
i dont think it's particularly much of a start at all
These schools are terrible because nobody gives a fuck about school dude
yeah theres a cultural distrust of school and what school gets you
and it's somewhat of a self fulfilling prophecy but it isn't particularly wrong for a lot of them
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I think that makes sense when the only good opportunities that are available to you from what you've seen are expressly unrelated to getting a good education. And I've heard of plenty of white people who did the same shit and just came out okay because they had some sort of privilege lol
basically they just need god, like the old lady who kendrick lamar sampled talked about
Yes because being white magically allows you to make bad choices but face no consequences for your actions
being born rich enough does but i wouldnt say "no consequences" more like "less obviously shitty consequences at first"
It’s true, I only was able to become somewhat successful because I am white, not because I made a concerted and difficult effort to get out of north Las Vegas and handle my own personal struggles with drug addiction in a healthy manner
i mean its unethical but it probably pays the bills better for the amount of time she put in, and she probably still had to 'do work' to make it work anyways. It's bad for him but probably marginally better than having a mom addicted to crack