Reply #49: Education Is Probably The Most Important One [View All]

[Beetwasher]

More funding for public schools in inner cities is what should be done about it. The opportunities are NOT there in the inner cities. The schools are falling apart, good teachers don't have the incentives needed to teach there and the current admin. couldn't give a shit so the problem is only going to get worse. College loan and tuition programs are being cut, after school programs are being cut, free lunch programs are being cut etc. Of course parents DO demand better from their schools, but the people who need to hear it don't care and cut funding anyway.

However, to deny the power of racism is foolish and ignorant. It IS rich, racist white men who control the country and they DO make every attempt to strip minorities (especially blacks) from voter roles (only one BLATANT example). The decimation of inner cities (especially minority neighborhoods) through denial and cutting of federal funds is another attempt to keep blacks and other minorities from acheiving economic parity. Economic decimation of their neighborhoods and lack of funding for their public schools means they find other methods of survival, such as crime, which means more (an incredibly disproportinate amount) are incarcerated, which further limits opportunities available later on. This is being done systematically and methodically and with purpose by those in power and it IS racism and it IS a major problem. Racism IS alive and well, only more covert and being practiced through economic discrimination. It is certainly no boogeyman. I didn't say it before, but I will say it now, economic discrimination (racism) is one of the things at the very heart of the problems of this crisis.

Most solutions to the problem have economic foundations and require funding to implement and the funding is disappearing (or going elsewhere) and so the problems are only exacerbated and that's not an accident.