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.

It's primarily the hiphop community that pushes the content you speak of.

Indeed.

In fact....'WorldStarHiphop' kind of puts a flashing sign right above that statement.

Oh, yeah.

Reminds me of the so-called Knock-out game.

Glorify the random beatings of innocents, then say "World Star!"

I miss the old rappers. Wu Tang, for example, who used poetic prose to explain the things they had to overcome.

Next thing you know 15 black teens are behind bars for 15 years for manslaughter and what have you.

@Brokkr, I hear ya.

Every community faces its own issues.

And the only way forward is taking responsibility for those issues.

If your streets are littered with trash and you wish to promote discipline among your youth, then organize a public event to clean up your streets.

Take responsibility, instead of blaming the mystical powers that be.

Statistically, many of those issues can be solved holistically. That is to say: Better education which focuses on how to think, instead of what. Less welfare while promoting family units. More civic focus.

Indeed.

Instead of discouraging work by way of welfare, why not instead pursue incentivizing work with expanded work/earned income credits, if you believe lowered income brackets need assistance.

That's one solution to the issue you've mentioned.

Right. Reward based on effort.

Exactly.