The Annoyed Man wrote:Yes, you're right.......but the inner city neighborhoods like the ones you mention were just a few blocks away from where I lived, and the atmosphere in those neighborhoods was much more grim. Children didn't have parents; they had "baby-mommas" and "baby-daddies," and all of the dysfunctions one would expect came along with all that. But my point was basically that, to find the kind of racism that would lead to the beating of a bald female cancer patient, you have to go the poor areas. You wouldn't find that kind of reaction in a middle class black neighborhood.jmra wrote:TAM,
It sounds like the big difference in the neighborhood you are describing and the neighborhoods my family worked with the 20 years my Father pastored an inner city church in New Orleans is the presence of a male role model in the home. The entire time we were there I can remember one black family that had a father figure in the home and he was actually the grandfather as all of the adult fathers of the children in the home had either been killed or were in jail.
I don't care what color you are, when you live in a society that lacks the key elements of a family that society is doomed.
