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[Black men are] usually aware they have to work 2x harder than other people to achieve the same rewards. While that sucks, it's also what it is.

I was once in conversation with someone from another ethnic group in an attempt to explain this dynamic. He was incredulous to the extent of saying: "Well, that’s just not fair…"

I explained: "It’s not about fairness – it just is…and smart Black Men navigate the world accordingly."

Black Men in earlier generations dealt with so much more; whining and complaining does nothing and changes nothing. Deal with your reality and work within that framework to achieve your best possible outcome.

Mainstream Media would have you believe that Black Men as a group are low-life, baby-making, drug-selling/drug using criminals and degenerates. Those knuckle-draggers are the minority. The reality is that most Black Men are doing well enough to be considered low to high middle class citizens and are almost NEVER a problem to anyone – especially society. These are your Good Black Men (GBM) who almost NEVER receive praise except from close and immediate family, supervisors and coworkers.

GBMs receive very little praise from society in general, however, Barack Obama, Lebron James, Denzel Washington, Tyrese Gibson, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Lenny Kravitz, Taye Diggs, Sean Carter (Jay-Z), Shemar Moore, and Tyson Beckford get lots of love...but many of us ain’t them. The problem is that you almost have to be similar to the aforementioned men to get respect and appreciated for positively contributing to society.

It’s a variant of the Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule): almost 65% of Black Men are productive citizens, about 16-20% are absolute low-life buffoons, and the rest are low achievers who simply don’t engage criminal activity, but leech off 'the system." These are of course estimates, but I suspect a fully-funded study would yield similar results.

President Trump to Blacks during the campaign: "Your neighborhoods are crime zones! You have NO education! You got NO Jobs! Vote for me…what have you got to lose?"

Smart Blacks aren’t angry about his approach, Trump was simply misinformed and had bad advisors (Omarosa…I’m talking to you…). Anyway – Republicans almost never court Blacks because most Blacks blindly vote Democratic.

Back on topic: GBMs are well aware of associated and negative stereotypes regarding Black Men and live/approach life in an opposite manner to the stereotypes.

Many GBMs will tell you one of the biggest problems is with the women from their own group. I explained this to a young Black Woman in another discussion thread, but she was in denial. It’s almost as if they don’t look around and see that Good Black Women (GBW) are linked up and married to GBMs, yet complain they can’t find "Good Men." Another Black female axiom is "GBMs should NEVER criticize their own women." Sounds familiar…right?

Other ethnic groups have similar problems, but as history will note the Black Community was the first group to experience significant decline and fracturing of families. There’s a long history why Blacks were the first ethnic group to fall into decline. Hit me via PM if you have interest.

When I have these "Real Talk" discussions about Blacks and the associated problems with someone from another group I always advise them to take note of our suffering, because it eventually works its way to other groups as well…hence TRP/MGTOW/AskTRP, YouTube videos, social media threads, and group discussions, etc.

Edit – so far over a dozen responses to my initial comment. Thanks all for the interest and your responses. I will respond via PM to those interested in more discussion (so as to not hijack the CNN discussion), but this a general explanation why Blacks are rated low/substandard within US Society. The bottom line answer is the welfare mind-state and fatherless homes.

NOTE: The discussion on the Decline of Blacks/Black Families originated in another Discussion Thread titled the War on Paternity.

The thread focused the fact that feminists are encouraging legislation and practices to disallow men to confirm paternity – basically a low-key effort to prevent men from ensuring the right to know a child/children is actually HIS child and the woman was not impregnated by someone else. A commenter made a reference to Single Parent Households, which led to Single Mother Households, which of course linked a reference to the current situation in Black America. To offer a short explanation, I responded with the following:

Commenter Question: Why do blacks have such a high percentage of single mother households?

My Response: The short answer is the entity known as the Welfare State.

Unmarried/Unwed mothers receive money from the government. The "catch" or requirement is they CANNOT be married nor have a male/husband as head of household. This encourages Black women to produce children out of wedlock at a rate of 73%. For perspective, in 1965 the OOW Birth-Rate for Blacks was 25%....which was considered high for the time period.

Single Mothers were shamed and considered pariahs/family embarrassments. More importantly, children suffered in poverty and experienced much hardship in ghetto life. Despite this, the OOW continued to rise over the decades.

The rise of 1960’s feminism further aggravated the situation by encouraging the "Strong and Independent Woman" archetype who "doesn’t need a man." It’s frustrating, sad, embarrassing, and contributes immensely to the many social ills plaguing Blacks in the United States; crime, high school dropouts, high unemployment, high incarceration rates, lack of family units, etc.

Economist/Black Intellectual Walter Williams is noted for his extensive knowledge of economics and his criticism of Black Issues. He is quoted as having said the following statement: The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow [legalized segregation] couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do, and that is to destroy the black family.

The bad news is that EVERY ethnic group is following the same pattern. Single Mothers receive praise rather than shame and vilification. It’s practically a badge of honor among today’s young women. The overall OOW birth rate for the United States is averaging 40% for ALL groups (Black =73%, Latinos = 53%, Whites = 30%, Asians = 17%, *Native Americans = 66%; counted separately due to representing less than 1% of the US population. More importantly, when anyone shames Single Mothers, the situation is reversed and said person is vilified for daring to criticize this group with the expectation for Good Men to volunteer to be caretaker to another man’s offspring.

There’s a saying: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are NOT allowed to criticize.

From another commenter on the original discussion:

culturally, blacks never cleaned up the single motherhood problem. hispanics fell into it eventually, and now whites are falling in too. race really is irrelevant... the problem is single motherhood.

I made a few more related posts that provided historical background, but ended with the following based on this question:

Commenter Question: ...why do blacks have so many of single mother households compared to other races?

Response: TL/DR; Blacks are NOT united as a group (versus the 1960's level of Black Empowerment/Civil Rights unity), have almost NO economic power, and have the highest OOW Birth-Rate of all ethnic groups at 73% [Source – CDC]. The overwhelming majority of all other negative issues flows from these problems among the group.

So yeah – these same issues are coming to other groups as well. It’s merely a matter of time….