On a side note... just went to the fridge to get my wife a beer as she picks lice out of my kids hair for like the 100th time. It's all over her school and her hair is just a natural lice trap. We wash, disinfect, spend the $20 on the treatments, run all the sheets/stuffed animals through countless cycles in the washing machine. It goes away, will come back in a month. Wash, rinse, repeat (literally in this case).
But that's not what I was going to talk about. I just want to say how PROUD I am of my other child, my older son (who is 10). He went on a field trip to Philadelphia to see some of the sites (Betsy Ross House and the Independence Hall Museum). All the parents were supposed to provide some money to the kids for a souvenir (by the way, I HATE spelling ******* french words - honest wish that language never ******* existed). So I gave my son $20 and told him try to keep it around $10 and I expected some amount of change back (but I also know he doesn't quite understand sales tax since we don't have that in Delaware and didn't want him stuck buying something $9.99 and not having enough).
So I kind of forgot about this trip on Friday until today and I remember the $20 and ask him "does he have any change for me and what did he buy". He proudly told me "Dad, everything in the souvenir shop was over priced so I didn't buy anything." Now that's the type of frugal kid I'm proud to raise. Told him he gets $10 cash now just for making a good decision and he can save it for whatever else he wants.
I also figure it's a nice allowance for him helping shovel mulch for an hour this afternoon as well.
It's not about race or color. I'm not saying there isn't racism which spawns from legitimate stereotypes that feed cultural and generational bigotries. But that is just a small part of Black America's failure to end their cycle of violence, single parent households, criminality and lack of generational wealth creation. Most of it (not ALL) is still on them as a culture that has not addressed their internal issues and is often afraid to listen to any constructive criticism at all.