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Public policies addressing cultural issues should be specific to the problems sought to be addressed and not have any class or race based criteria imo.
Everything you mentioned as "cultural issues" are symptoms of POVERTY.

How do you propose we "fix" these "cultural issues"?
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Everything you mentioned as "cultural issues" are symptoms of POVERTY.
In part, I think so. Entirely, I think not.

How do you propose we "fix" these "cultural issues"?
I don’t know. I haven’t studied solutions.
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Everything you mentioned as "cultural issues" are symptoms of POVERTY.
In part, I think so. Entirely, I think not.
Please be slightly more specific.
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@3RU7AL
Please be slightly more specific.
I mean, poverty would be one of the things sought to be avoided. Poverty begets poverty, but this would be an oversimplification. There are general issues like poor social mobility, but I think what you may be more interested in is what, if any, of the issues would be specific to the black community. And I don't think any are truly exclusive. Though, I do think it would be accurate to say that some of them would be more pronounced. For example, success in education being viewed as acting white would probably be the cultural issue most specific to the black community I can think of off the top of my head.
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 Success in education being viewed as "nerdy" or "geeky" (before those terms were considered "cool") has a long history of social stigma (especially with poor people).
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I find the concept of "blood quantum" (specifically in reference to "native american tribes") to be especially problematic.