#14 | Posted by fatboomboom

Wow, someone needs to brush up on how systems have LONG lasting (multi-generational) outcomes. I know this will fall on deaf ears but...

Look there are exceptions to everything but Americans created the system that Danforth is referring to. Specifically White Americans created it. First we had slavery, next we had Jim Crow, and it continues on and on through legal processes. The legal process is pretty much outlined in CRT. Critical Race Theory isn't something to "teach in schools". It is a theory that laws are created that are racist and MANY are targeting directly or indirectly people of color. One of the outstanding examples is law and punishment around Powder vs Crack cocaine. They are pretty much equal drugs but crack was favored in communities of color. So why are the punishments for crack so much more harsh than powder?

So yes, it seems like it should be so simple but it isn't. There is a lot of evidence critical behaviors for lifelong success are embedded by the time someone is 5 or 6 before schools really even have a chance. Of course everyone is different and there are exceptional people that pull themselves out of Poverty and the Poverty culture. They are the exceptions. I personally know several that have come from poverty to become successful - Doctors, Teachers, Engineers, Coaches / Mentors, Military leaders and even an NBA coach (Darvin Ham). I don't consider the Pro Athletes themselves to have left the poverty culture behind - some do but most don't. At the same time I am talking about a handful out of 3000-4000 students that went to a VERY poor school around the time I graduated from a very different high school. I just spent a good amount of my youth in the neighborhood visiting family who refused to leave as it turned into a ghetto and ended up with a couple lifelong friends from the school. I wasn't wealthy by any means but the disparity was real. I can honestly say that my early life has steered the course of my life as well.