What are the primary issues facing Africans and African Americans in the USA that you'd like to see addressed?

[lightbulb27]

We all know politicians pander to audiences to get a vote. What do you want to see addressed as a priority?

here are some I came up with, in no particular order...

a. War in Sudan... mass starvation.

b. Higher rates of death by black women in hospitals

c. abortion rights and or social support for children

d. Positive role models for successful family development and social support

e. Safety when dealing with police and government authority

f. reparations... compensation for centuries of disadvantage and intstitutionalized abuse.

g. economic opportunity

h. human trafficking

i. violent crime in primarily black cities.

Other?

This is the list I came up with that might be issues you'd care about. You make up your own... what is important and you want to see progress within 4-10 years?

[loveslongnails]

No politician can ever address the one thing that makes all the difference, and that's what's in your heart and mind and how it affects your actions.

Prejudice, bias, racism, white supremacy, et. al., has been pervasive in the USA since it was founded. When slavery as an "institution" was abolished in the USA, it didn't change the hearts of minds of the people in the Confederate states. Just look at the laws that followed and the entire Jim Crow era.

There will never be mass reparations, and the issues you bring up so deeply rooted that they can't be legislated away, though you CAN legislate behavior.

[Avicenna]

Economic opportunity is the one that I think needs to be addressed, with crime a close second

[lightbulb27]

e. g. some do not have access to the resources for training and preparation and thus lack economic opportunity? That feeds crime.
is that right?

[Avicenna]

Not necessarily. I think you’ll find that crime is fed by mental illness (psychopathy) and especially low intelligence that leads to bad decisionmaking.

[lightbulb27]

sure, environment would create plenty of mental illness... lack of fathers, lack of parenting skills. I've seen this in white families, the kids are healthy moldable clay. if home life is bad, hard to get a good result.

[Avicenna]

That also has something to do with it. But one thing I noticed teaching high school seniors was the wide differences in decisionmaking skills.

[Malwi93]

what issues do they have? look how many Black millionaires there are

[Malwi93]

what can a White person do that a Black one can't

[KostasKouvalis]

I was watching "Lester Holt" last night, and they did a report on a non-profit that takes "Young males of color" on free camping trips once a year. Where are the non-profits helping WHITE people? I never got any free camping, yet I'M apparently the one with privilege.
But yes, you're right. There's no systemic laws preventing black people from becoming successful. We don't have Jim Crowe anymore, but some people would just like to have everything the easy way.

[KostasKouvalis]

Also, I would bet that the majority of the money for those camping trips comes from White people.

[lightbulb27]

@KostasKouvalis there is $ targeted to help such communities.
your response went off topic... I want to know what their issues are. everyone has issues...

[Anonymous]

c. abortion rights

yeah nothing like helping the black community by assisting them in deleting their own children. never forget abortion is rooted in racism and eugenics

[lightbulb27]

is the issue abortion legality or is it the underlying social issues creating the desire to abort? in your view?

[Opinion Owner]

both since the same baseline arguments can used for justifying slavery or watching illegal porn

[KostasKouvalis]

None of them. I'm not black so why should I care about blacks? They don't care about my race. Let them figure it out for themselves.

[lightbulb27]

yea I want to know what they think... I just gave a sample list outside of the media script.

[Anonymous]

The biggest issues African Americans face, by far, all result from their culture, and no one can fix those problems except African Americans themselves.

[DrPepper12]

Solve these issues.

[Anonymous]

Pervasive hood culture

[elaphe]

Quality education