I didn't shape up until high school

Until that point I just learned to be literal wall paper

You didn't know what group to fit into and wanted to be accepted.

Especially due to being supplanted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49584157

Yeah, I think all kids are like that. I left school and travelled with my dad up until highschool. Spent a lot of time in International school which was good for me

Everyone is a cultural outcast in international school so you can't clique up based up on those things. I learned a lot about who I was during that time. Got into running and gymnastics during that time too. By the time I came back to the states I was much more confident and ready to knock someone on their ass if they bugged me.

Adversity should strengthen.

@nimble_newt Today at 6:55 PM
"It was all behavioral. I got my ass beat every day after school. But White kids who adopted their behavior was okay. They'd get shit on sometimes but I got the worse bits of it"

Sorry to hear it, man. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this unfold throughout my journey of our public education system, as well in broader society. Minority groups tend to express a collective insecurity, for the fact they are a minority, by way of counter-culture, rebelling against the norms and values of the predominant group, even if it means their own demise economically and socially. Then, you also have the propaganda we see throughout mainstream media and politics, making it that much worse. I've an entire box full of journals from my sociology courses focusing on this precise subject.

There are solutions, too.

You have to change the culture by introducing positive role-models.

Sure. Breaking down the walls that cultural Marxism enacted via Feminism will help.

I suppose. @Jeremy Have you seen the documentary "72%" I found it englightening

Kinda shocking

Indeed, @Brokkr, such my reference to politics. When you have the Marxist bug in their ear, such as Cedric Robinson, who's a prolific Black Panther and Marxist among their communities having applied the Communist Manifesto through a racial lens, that surely doesn't help. Case example, with UCLA Professor Gaye Theresa Johnson proclaiming Whites the Bourgeoisie and Blacks the Proletariat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSklFpQ1JY

This is the nonsense that's taught and evoked all across institutions in our country, at the moment.

Exactly, or...as I stated earlier. Welfare. People are rewarded for running from a unified family unit by getting paid for having babies.

I go to Michigan University's library page, and 19/20 of their recommended reading list is about revolutionary Marxism through a racial or gender lens.

No, I can't say I have, @nimble_newt.

However, those statistics are not unfamiliar to me, as I've read quite a few research papers and publishing's on that subject in particular.

The irony to that is that abortion was an eugenics experiment and the founder of PP played a role in the Tuskegee experiments. Now, instead of a hospital, with a surgeon and other medical criteria, abortion is a 'right'.

@Jeremy I thought it was different because it looked directly at the African Perspective on those issues. How they perceive it is interesting

I've heard that University in America are like that. I'm lucky enough to not have been exposed to it.

Newt, you're old enough it wasn't like that during our time.

I went to a top 5 engineering school in the United States. You could only be an engineer at my University. We didn't have any other majors so a lot of that stuff didn't come up

I only heard about those things online.

Yeah. Now 'gender' is a 'social construct'.

All because some proctor decided a thought exercise would become 'truth'.

Yeah that blew my mind. But we don't argue about gender or anything like that at my University. Everyone is struggling to stay alive and not get weeded out.

I'm now doing my graduate work in Boston for Bioengineering. Prepping for my MD/PhD and Wew lad are things different

Notice no one will argue that there's only two sexes.

I see all kinds of stupid shit now.

I miss the sanity of strictly technical Universities

The argument is not how many sexes there are. The argument is if gender and sex are interchangeable as words....and what definitions can be given to gender if, indeed, it is not interchangeable with sex.

When you come to the realization that is the argument....that people wish to change the definition of a word to express a trait which has no scientific basis then you come one step closer to changing their minds. Especially if you have them understand what a phenotype and genotype is.

And to think the mainstream tells blacks not to do what you've done, to reject partaking in contributive careers, that they'll never amount to anything, and so on, @nimble_newt. As for the 72% perspective, the largest contributing factor is the fact they're sitting behind bars throughout their lives, yet somehow we fail to recognize how hip-hop and pop culture has glorified, encouraged and normalized, the very behaviors that place people behind bars, marketed straight to the black populace.

It's an industry of Blackspolitation.

Their culture icons exploit the black community by pushing the content they sell.

Idk man. Morgan Freeman is a baller.

@Brokkr Preach.

Morgan Freeman is a positive icon among few, @Brokkr.