(07-04-2019, 09:16 AM)JackCity Wrote:

(07-04-2019, 09:06 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I really need to elaborate on the dysfunctional culture that's been pushed on us as cool and noble for the last 40 years?

Yep please do elaborate

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(07-04-2019, 12:16 AM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote: Silly move by Nike, but since it's a private business, it's their move to make. So who cares?

It appears the loony right have gotten very "triggered" over a shoe not coming out

Sure, the number one problem in Black America is fractured families and fatherlessness. Ghetto Culture promotes the Thug Life, of which whoring is certainly a prominent if not the central aspect, as aspirational to young, fatherless boys. The Illegitimacy Rate, the Crime/Murder Rate, the Educational failures are all rooted in the fact that black fatherhood has been decimated by Society. Young black men are angry, stunted, and in many cases hopeless to change their situations. The Moynihan Report put it this way 50 years ago:

"There is no one Negro community. There is no one Negro problem. There is no one solution. Nonetheless, at the center of the tangle of pathology is the weakness of the family structure. Once or twice removed, it will be found to be the principal source of most of the aberrant, inadequate, or antisocial behavior that did not establish, but now serves to perpetuate the cycle of poverty and deprivation."

We've known for decades what the problem is, and instead of correcting it we've created an aspirational culture that perpetuates it. And now Nike, and they aren't the only ones by any means, is profiteering off of the continued annihilation of the Black Community in America, and as we see it emerging in white communities, that culture too is crumbling. But hey, get you those $200 shoes made with foreign slave labor to pay Kap's contract and the stock dividends investors demand, they are sure to make a difference in the long term prospects of the ghetto.

Meanwhile, Moynihan also noted that the best remedy for all if these ills is for black men to have honest work at fair wages. Guess who is scoring the largest gains on that front? Yeah, the guy in the White House everybody loves to hate. Instead they prefer to feel agrieved, and victimized, and listen to scam artists like Kaepernick tell them how evil America and the President are while Kap laughs all the way to the bank, riding on their backs to do it. But what do I know? It's all just observation and academic theory to me.

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