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Originally Posted by bows&toes
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.
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you're obviously quite stupid and very uninformed on this subject. stick to something else, idiot. your miniscule personal experience means nothing in the big scheme of things since you yourself benefit from white privelege and thus aren't privy to what minorities in this country have and continue to endure. read the previous posts and get educated. like i said several times, 40 years doesn't erase centuries of oppression and destitution. obviously, you don't have very good reading comprehension
people of color didn't get the same start that whites had, and thus will have an uphill battle in equalizing the playing field.