Parenting secret to race 'privilege'

When President Obama was elected president I expected our country to keep growing for the better in race relations. We have come a long way and now an African American was leading us. My gosh, the first African American President. How far have we come? Pretty far.

My concern is that there seems to be a larger percentage of African Americans who are still struggling economically compared to percentages of other races/ethnicities since President Obama took office. In addition, the country seems to be much more divided racially. I would have thought President Obama would have helped to bring us closer.

Why is it that I am hearing from the popular media and other outlets that it must be from white oppression and/or privilege? This is very offensive to myself as a white person and the concept is absolutely ridiculous. Most families understand that if good parenting isn't provided to a child, they're chances of success is greatly diminished. This is common sense.

I say as an American culture, let's stop making excuses for our failures. Let's expect everyone who has children to raise them to have better lives than themselves. Let's quit looking at the past and start looking at all of America's successes.

I have a basic equation to share with your readers that will incredibly improve the probability of success for all families. Here goes:

White Privilege = Good Parenting.

Black Privilege = Good Parenting.

African American Privilege = Good Parenting. Asian-American Privilege = Good Parenting

Mexican-American Privilege = Good Parenting.

If anyone disagrees with this formula, look around. There are many people who have come to these United States from all of the earth's continents who are successful because they put parenting first. Michael B. Fuechtmann

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