Black history month: Why are black American neighborhoods & culture so bad? Plus the cycle of gang bangers & baby mamas, & how they're perpetuated by the war on drugs, prison-industrial complex, & government schooling.

It all starts with politicians offering free welfare programs. Then people with a "you owe me" attitude vote them in. Then teen girls and young women get pregnant, and because they get more money on welfare than they would from a husband, go on welfare.

She gives birth to kids who do not have a father in their life. 

The males turn to rappers who embrace crime culture as their male role models, while the females, who are too ignorant to use birth control (as with their boyfriends), get impregnated by their thug boyfriends.

And the cycle starts all over again.

Other factors would be:

1. A Prussian-style, factory-model based government schooling system promoting obedience over critical thinking and practical life skills. I believe that a lot of students resent school, but for some reason, instead of questioning and criticising the idea and institution of school intellectually, they take out and express their frustrations with rebellious behavior and in raunchy rap music. The lack of intellectual questioning, plus the lack of solutions, keeps the cycle of unchanged schools going.

I go over the problems & solutions related to education here.

2. A parenting culture with unbalanced discipline practices.

3. Corruption in big cities, the economic opportunity being hampered by government bureaucracy on what should be legitimate businesses, and ESPECIALLY, the war on drugs criminalizing even personal drug use.

Hence, the problem we see today in black American society

Some people want to construe my mentioning of "wannabe gang-banging thugs and their baby-mama girlfriends" as "racist". Hypocritically, a lot of people embracing, and perhaps promoting, the negative black American caricature are blacks themselves.

Also, white people can be poor through their own bad choices and a culture of under-achievement. One can see this if they go to the rural Appalachian mountains, where some of the white people there are some of the poorest people in the entire United States of America