I'm about to write a LOT, but it's good information and personal experiences that which I am using to base my ideology on (in large part). If you truly care to understand and debate these issues, read on. If not, just skip it. Either way, I apologize in advance, but the topic of black culture/education and their influences on White youth/education can tend to get a little long
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The vast majority of what Brian has said isn't even remotely backed up by anything but talk. "Uh, whites can't learn because blacks are flowing in the classroom and beating on desks!"
Once AGAIN, that was an example from my personal life. I also went through High School (and being in a military family, I had the pleasure of trying out quite a few of them). And the one thing that was consistent between South Carolina, Georgia, and Utah, was minorities being incredibly disruptive and disrespectful towards the teacher during class. I DID have a difficult time learning because of it (but somehow still managed to do well), and I am currently experiencing the same issues in Community College here in SoCal! So yes, I do believe my personal experiences count for something of a statistic, and I will use them as such. It is WIDELY known that minorities significantly outnumber White people in the disrespect/disruption department (as can be seen in the overwhelming minority population in Prison as well, since criminal behavior usually stems from a lack of respect in the first place, meaning you don't assault someone you respect except for extreme circumstances). Perhaps because I've had the opportunity to live in many minority-centered cities, as well as Whiter cities, I might have some room to state some personal observations as facts (considering I have lived in all over the country, including AZ, SD, SC, GA, UT, CA).
1. In SC, I remember a White girl at my school got slashed in the face with a razor blade because she said a black girl's hairstyle didn't look right, and that's also where I got choked with the barbed wire by those black guys (among other things). Things were so bad we had a police department INSIDE the school...
2. In GA, we had a police department/jail INSIDE the school...
3. Come to think about it, my Community College ALSO has a police department/detainment facility INSIDE the school! Hmmm.
So the only states that had schools (that I've been to) that weren't disruptive (other than the occasional fight...which I only heard about but never saw) and had no need for its' own, internal police department/detainment facility were in SD and UT (and coincidentally, they didn't have police stations inside them either) Hmmm. I just KNOW there's a reason for that to be gleamed from this information and previous posts that could hypothesize why that would be.
I was born in Phoenix, which is why I didn't include that state in the discussion, except to say I remember picking up an ounce of Coke at the bus stop (the day before my neighborhood friend (we were 8 years old) got kidnapped). My dad had to take it back to the bus stop and pray nothing would happen to us. The only thing consistent...we lived in low-income housing surrounded by Mexicans (exclusively). Didn't much care for that culture either, but at least they left us alone (back then they did anyways, and for the most part that still seems to hold true).
Luckily, I got a great education in SD, and in the private schools in SC (I went to Catholic school from 4th-7th and 9.5th-10th grades, and public school the rest of the time) that I was able to build off of those great foundations to fill in the education gaps of public school, and become the man I am today. My education in public school sucked donkey balls, and yes, I WILL attribute that to the disruptive behavior of the minorities, because in every school I have EVER been enrolled in (4 different High Schools) the White kids were always keeping to themselves, and the blacks were always rapping or talking to each other (loudly) throughout class. That's not to say the White kids were paying attention and being good kids (because we all know Teenagers are Hellions), but at least they weren't being disruptive in class, and at least respected the teacher enough to do what he said.
And as far as your "White kids being problems" example, are they trying to be black? I know that sounds bigoted as Hell, but allow me to explain what I'm getting at. As I have stated previously, society paints White people as either dumb, gay, girly (if male), or all of them, basically putting Whites in an unappealing light. While at the same time painting blacks as strong, masculine, athletic, bossy, Alpha-Male, Gangster, authoritative, etc. etc. And with the way children are being indoctrinated in school with this multiculturalism BS, they begin to "realize" that they'd be "cooler" to emulate the people that society deems as "cool" (such as LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Pimp C, Tupac, Biggie, etc.) And it is inevitable that when White people adopt that culture/lifestyle, they become disruptive and disrespectful (the same as when blacks embrace that culture). And yet, when we see White people living the same culture the same way we see black people living it, it's embarassing. But hey, don't worry, it's "cool" for the black guy to do it. That is the reason I want to raise my family AWAY from that culture, so my children grow up to be proud of who they are and THEIR heritage. The double standard is pretty obvious to ANYONE that is willing to see it (ever heard someone say "Sheeit, that White boy tryin' ta be gangsta"? That's because we all know only black people can be viewed, acceptably, as gangsters right. Think about what those quotes are REALLY saying...Theirs is NOT a culture to be mixed with ours.
Children/Teenagers are impressionable, and at young ages their moral compasses have not yet been firmly established. I will tell you that RAP and the people that listen to it/the people I was hanging out with are THE reason I started doing and selling drugs (I was actually arrested for distribution at a very young age), and causing problems (I was the little White kid that just wanted to be cool and be accepted). I really bought into how cool it was to be a drug dealer, and kill people, and do drugs, and skip school, and all that ****. I actually ended up buying a stolen .22 longrifle for $200 at a pretty young age, with every intention of killing my drug dealer (thank GOD I had a long-time buddy that was able to intervene, albeit unknowingly). Human life just didn't really matter much to me at that time (I am so grateful that is no longer the case). And all because the Rap music and the people I was hanging around prompted my moral compass to veer off into no-where land. I definitely didn't get the ideas from my family (wonderful, loving, Air Force parents), nor from my White friends as we were learning to program our computers (the old 286 with the Turbo button
). And seeing as how those ideas came from somewhere, it had to be either the Rap music directly, or through the people I was associating with who also listened to Rap). And we all know teenagers become rebellious, but for me to have taken those direct paths, it had to be a cultural thing, that which was not from my family's culture.
--Brian
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Bear with me, I'm in a lot of pain today (so extra Oxy's for me), and it's a little bit difficult to come up with the right way of saying what I'm trying to say.