I'm not about to go through this with you or anyone else. You have your views, as narrow and il-advised/informed as they are, and that's fine. However, I can say that the mere statements that you make show how little you really know about this country, its history and the social relations influenced by both.
Also, I don't understand why people say things like such and such a group came here and did this. I have said this over and over again, which is why I am not going to get too far off into this pointless discussion, Whatever group you want to compare to Af. Am or anyone else is NOT that group. They have a totally different background, history and experience. Every group is different and you cannot just sit there and act as if every non white group is exactly the same. I refuse to try to represent my entire group so thats the end of that but you really need to stop and ask yourself who you think YOU are to question and/or criticize an entire group of people who you obviously know nothing about. You sit in judgment of a group of individuals who have an experience and backgrounds totally different from anything you can even imagine so for you to criticize if rediculously pompous and all it does is recomfirm what I already know about folks like you.
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don't forget the government-induced socio-economic gap from the 1950s Home Loans.
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This is also a TREMENDOUS cause of many of the problems that are present today. Once again "people like you" try to disregard the impact of policies that directly affected many of people for generations. As repulsive as these people you sit in judgment may be to you, you cannot disregard what is the obvious, or maybe not so obvious, root of a lot of the depression of a lot of people. You spend one day in the conditions these people live and lets see if you have all of that mouth and "superior" attitude that you have now.
Finally, these kids half way don't even know where Jesse and Al are coming from. THAT is not the problem. These kids deal with more stress brought on by the conditions that they live in than most average adults in this country. THAT is why they are very distracted. School and education for most of American history was for the privileged. People from all racial backgrounds have family history that includes that fact that due to the conditions that they lived in, family members were only able to get so much education and instead had to do what they could to help the family. They didn't have the luxury of sitting in a classroom reading literature and developing mathematical skills. They had to work or do whatever they could to make a meal. The difference is that throughout this country's history, the forced impediments to the advancement of BLACK people with relation to other groups caused the disproportionate numbers of how many people in the black community head this reality vs. those in the white community who had it. That is the TRUTH regardless of how you want to place the blame on the black people and their "culture".
I am done with this stupid topic. i am not going to waste anymore time trying to get through to someone who has no possibility of understanding where I'm coming from, let alone the kids or anyone else in our community is coming from. screw you.