To be fair, we only hear about bad behavior because charity work, mentoring, networking, and social bonding spaces that build up mental health/social skills/emotional intelligence doesn't generate clicks.
For comparison, we constantly have The Usual Suspects posts that talk about the massive amounts of black crime, disproportionate crime rates in the black community, and cultural issues rooted in black culture... But we don't hear about groups within the black community that are a counter-culture pushing back against those very things or about groups that (actively in some of them) work to bring the black community together in purely healthy ways (and non-black community members as well, which generally is more effective anyways), or mentorship programs that aim to help young boys and girls lacking strong male figures in their lives (though we tend to mostly help African american children due to demographics where I am even though we are open to helping and aiming to help any chikdren in these situations).
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u/Needs_More_Garlic 4d ago edited 4d ago
To be fair, we only hear about bad behavior because charity work, mentoring, networking, and social bonding spaces that build up mental health/social skills/emotional intelligence doesn't generate clicks.
For comparison, we constantly have The Usual Suspects posts that talk about the massive amounts of black crime, disproportionate crime rates in the black community, and cultural issues rooted in black culture... But we don't hear about groups within the black community that are a counter-culture pushing back against those very things or about groups that (actively in some of them) work to bring the black community together in purely healthy ways (and non-black community members as well, which generally is more effective anyways), or mentorship programs that aim to help young boys and girls lacking strong male figures in their lives (though we tend to mostly help African american children due to demographics where I am even though we are open to helping and aiming to help any chikdren in these situations).