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The united states is only 246 years old?black population was basically illiterate for 400 years.
You don't think that generation after generation of illiteracy had an effect on the kids/grandkids?
Before we were states, we were coloniesThe united states is only 246 years old?
I think it's a factorMy grandmother was born in 1910, the grandchild of people who had been enslaved. She became a farm wife at the age of 15 with only an eighth grade education.
She had six children and taught them all how to read and do simple arithmetic before they started school.
In the late 50s, she taught me to read and do simple arithmetic before I started school.
I am at a wonder how schools can have custody of children for six hours a day, nine months a year, for 12 years...and don't manage to do with my grandmother using her eighth-grade education could do in a couple of months.
And to be sure, it only takes a couple of months for a native English-speaker to learn to read English. It's not that difficult.
So, why is there still illiteracy? It's not "systemic racism" because many black people learned to read even in slavery, even when it was illegal and they faced dire punishment. Racism was seriously systemic when my grandmother learned to read, and still seriously systemic when she taught her children and me to read.
It may be systemic incompetence in our education system. One writer, Frederick Pohl, asserted that the US has the kind of education system that a conquering nation forces upon its vassal states.
I think it's a factor
When the proposed solutions involve creating obstacles for others....yeah, I care.Probably because you likely don't care. I think you've demonstrated that.
That's a pretty general question.COuld be some do that and it could be that you have no answer for why black folks in general have a harder time.
Uhhhh...no. The black population has not been illiterate for 400 years.So parents have nothing to do with child-rearing? If you have illiterate parents you are more likely to have illiterate children and the black population was basically illiterate for 400 years.
It's not 400 years ago (Like the 1600's) It was 400 years of reading being illegal for black folks([unishable by death) and that had no effect on society?Uhhhh...no. The black population has not been illiterate for 400 years.
And I've noted that it is a factor even if it's among many like poverty of course. Poor people tend to be less educated and in the ghettos there is plenty of poverty.As I've noted a couple of times before, there are many factors that are just as significant affecting other than black people. We don't have a special excuse for being illiterate.
And I've noted that it is a factor even if it's among many like poverty of course. Poor people tend to be less educated and in the ghettos there is plenty of poverty.
It's not 400 years ago (Like the 1600's) It was 400 years of reading being illegal for black folks([unishable by death) and that had no effect on society?
You don't think that generation after generation of illiteracy had an effect on the kids/grandkids?
Before we were states, we were colonies
It's not 400 years ago (Like the 1600's) It was 400 years of reading being illegal for black folks([unishable by death) and that had no effect on society?
Not all black people were slaves ya know.So parents have nothing to do with child-rearing? If you have illiterate parents you are more likely to have illiterate children and the black population was basically illiterate for 400 years.
Right but don't you think that it being illegal for 499 years has possibly had an effect on the population?It's not illegal for black people to read.
Nope, they are just perpetuating and denying a racist system. You seem to like it.Who's fault is it that black kids don't read these days? Are white people passing laws, rules, regulations against it? How long have black kids been attending schools now?
You are not reading what I am saying. It is an effect from the past 500 years.It certainly did. Quite some time ago. But I believe it's been legal for quite some time now as well as black kids being able to attend school.
What's the reason today?
Most in the south were.Not all black people were slaves ya know.
I think that can be traced back to the single-parent issue but it was a setup from the beginning IMO.That has changed today, and it's not white people who changed it
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