@carolmswain
I live in and intermittently grew up in a lower middle class/poorer black area.
From that vantage point I see the daily mechanics of parenting, peer pressure, attitudes, and temperament up close.
What stands out is a stubborn psychological schema that runs through much of the black culture: a reflexive resistance to external standards or authority, contempt of “whiteness,” and often expressed as “no white man is going to tell me what to do; this ain’t 1850.” That posture, combined with copious amounts of pride, ego, and racial grievance becomes self-reinforcing.
The behaviors are set early. Children absorb them from parents who model profanity, aggression, and low impulse control on speakerphone in public. These behaviors are then amplified by peer groups that reward, or show no hesitation towards fighting, littering, vandalism, and roaming the streets instead of any foundational, two-parent structure at home.
By the time these kids reach chronological adulthood, many remain emotionally and cognitively at the level of a mid-to-late teenager; physically grown but still operating with the judgment and self-regulation of adolescents. The rest of society is left managing the downstream consequences.
These patterns are not superficial. They are culturally embedded and multigenerational. Over 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock. More than 60 percent grow up in single-parent homes. Young black men, roughly 6 percent of the U.S. population, account for well over half of homicides and a disproportionate share of violent crime. Academic rates that are abysma. A slew of government statistics exist, datapoints screaming from their pages and document this consistently; yet, frequently dismissed as racist artifacts to protects the status quo and coddle the pride and reinforce the ego.
Then, cultural and media reinforcement cements the doom loop and confirms the distorted, dysfunctional worldview.
The cycle will only break when solid parenting/education becomes the cultural norm and a critical mass of influential black voices inside the community begins treating these behaviors, attitudes, degeneracy, and worldviews as shameful, dishonorable, and frankly embarrassing, rather than defensible - if not, then the rot will continue in perpetuity.
External lectures accomplish little. Internal cultural correction at scale is the only mechanism that has ever worked for large populations.
Without that shift we are raising successive cohorts of overgrown adolescents and asking functional adults and polite society to absorb the costs.
The Karmelo Anthony case was the final straw for me, personally - so much so that I’m selling my home and divesting from the “community” as a whole. Watching large numbers of people in the community defend or rationalize the murder of a white child, framing the killer as justified and the victim as somehow complicit, revealed how thoroughly the “no white man tells me what to do” posture has curdled into open racial hostility.
When murder is excused through grievance rather than condemned outright, the culture has become actively corrosive and is riddled with rot. That reaction is why I’m moving. I will not raise children or invest my life among people who treat basic justice as optional when the perpetrator shares their race. I see at least 70% of the black culture as a hate group and unfortunately, I’m dropping another dollar in the Scott Adams jar.