Joe Doakes emails:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe American Dream\u201d has changed several times.<\/p>\n
Used to be, laborers living in filthy tenements in New York or Chicago dreamed of traveling West where they could bust the sod, build a home, and make a new life for their families.<\/p>\n
Used to be, GI\u2019s in foxholes dreamed of finding a nice girl to settle down with and a job in a factory to afford a bungalow on a quarter-acre lot.<\/p>\n
Used to be, parents worked overtime to send their kids to college to be doctors and lawyers, so they wouldn\u2019t have to work with their hands and could afford a McMansion in Eagan plus a lake cabin Up North.<\/p>\n
For young Americans nowadays, The American Dream might consist of an college degree in Sociology to get a job working in a cubicle for a non-profit so you can live in a converted warehouse and ride Light Rail.<\/p>\n
Notice what they have in common?\u00a0 They\u2019re all White dreams.\u00a0 Black people living in pre-Civil War days had entirely different dreams of freedom. \u00a0Black GIs came home to segregated dreams.\u00a0 And since the 1970\u2019s, Black families have fragmented and crime in Black neighborhoods has skyrocketed.<\/p>\n
What is The American Dream for Black youth today?\u00a0 What should the schools be teaching to help them achieve that dream?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
More on this tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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