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Originally Posted by starang21
no, that's not what i'm saying but all of a sudden giving someone a book who has never been able to read, you act like they're all of a sudden going to start spitting shakespeare within a few minutes. things take time, and they don't change over night. it takes WAY more than one generation when you start out with nothing. if that was the case, then there would be more rags to riches stories than we could shake a stick at. and no, it doesn't happen with white people all the time, you just wish it would. because i know a lot of rich white kids who wanted to just waste daddys money and not amount to anythign.
and look at the statistics for minorities in college comparitively to years ago. there's a far higher percentage now than ever before. but it's still got a long way to go.
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You are correct, they don't just start "spitting shakespeare". That argument would apply if they were born in the 50s 60s and maybe even the 70s. Most kids that go to college and especially high school these days were born in the 80s. That means they can't blame anybody but themselves for personal failures. They attended public schools just like anybody else. Even if they attended a school in a poor neighborhood, the only thing holding them back is peer pressure and personal responsibility. Lots of cases, the fact that they are from a poor neighborhood will help them get things such as admission to a university and scholarships. The "white man" can't be blamed for personal choices kids make when they DECIDE pursue popular black culture (read: 50 cent) instead of having the foresight to make good grades and go to college.
In my personal experience most of the black kids in my public high school (2nd biggest in TX and one of the richest) fell into the same fate. They followed black culture, tried to act "ghetto", some went to jail, others are still hanging out in town selling drugs, others are working low paying jobs with no plans to attend college. I'm not saying there is not exceptions, I am good friends with a black guy that graduated with me that goes to my university. But unfortunately, this is the exception not the norm, at least in my experience. Can their failures be blamed on the "white man" when their parents sent them to a great "blue ribbon" school and when their parents make ~6 figure incomes?? Ofcoarse not, but don't ask them, they will tell you it is. This is the hypocrisy that I often refer to.