I do not know the set up for this video, but let's assume for argument sake it was a fair cross section of people. Some of those questions posed are profound (mother and father together, father figure in family, access to good schools) some trivial (such as paying for a cell phone)--but the real profound question raised is video is why the discrepancy between these kids? I can think of one big factor that has played a role: The policy incentives of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty have in reality been a war on families. It has been a social experiment going on for fifty years and the outcome has been a catastrophe for the people it was meant to help.
It is not a "white" thing. What about Asian privilege? What about West Indie privilege? I would suggest that the factor for success in those groups is having strong families. Reciprocally, white culture, where the family structure breaks down, results (for the most part) in very bad outcomes.
Economics of course play a role. A bad economy puts strains on families and can contribute to disintegration. But strong families are better at riding downturns and dysfunctional families will often continue to fail even when things are going well.
Families succeed when they rely on each other to raise self reliant strong children. A child who had parents who stuck together and raised him or her should not feel guilty for that, but thankful. If you were blessed with a strong family that supported you, by all means share that success with others less fortunate. But rather than attempting to make the children of successful families feel guilty for doing well, maybe we should be all addressing the social issues that make this disparity happen to different groups. Hint: It is not racism, at least not as racism is currently defined by leftists and the media.
As a fiscal conservative, I am profoundly skeptical about expanding entitlements, but I recognize the need for more Americans to have more kids. And not single parents (which we encourage and subsidize secondarily through programs like WIC), but married couples raising bigger families. Is that what this Trump push is about?
Maybe, although I think the explanation is more simple that that. Trump proposing this it freaks out Democrats because Trump is seeking to steel issues from them that they pander to to gain votes. But the trouble with pandering for votes with entitlements is where does it stop?
I do not know who did this video, but it is pretty funny. Norman Lear intended to make fun of the character Archie Bunker, as a racist reactionary bigot (and granted, in the way he was portrayed, to some extent he was), but often it was the conservative Archie who made more sense than the liberal characters on the show Meatball and Maude (who never made sense).
