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Originally posted by straightBOS
Microsoft sinks millions into Urban schools each year, and Bill has yet to be implicated in any this. Yet, urban schools and test scores are pitiful. Outside handouts are NOT a SOLUTION.
What good would it do if these companies put up money? What WE NEED to do is stop playing poor ol' me, give me a reason to uplift myself and my community and ACTUALY DO IT!
I'm sorry, but no one alive to day can give an accurate first hand account of what it was like to de a slave, so how can profit as if we had done the work?
If you are born into poverty, as some point that becomes apparent to you. At that point it should NOT become apparent to you that it is someone else's fault and they should pay. Instead, it should mean that you MUST and you had BETTER work twice or three time as hard to get where you want to be. If one does not want to do that, no amount of money or tuition payments or whatever else will suffice.
Black people: DO FOR SELF!!
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Interesting........
How is providing college scholarships handouts?
How is providing funding to urban schools for building improvements, better curiculumns, better textbooks, better teachers (for salaries), afterschool programs and such handouts? How is providing a job service training center within an impoverished neighborhood that would provide job training a handout? If all Microsoft is doing is donating a few computers to an urban school so that they can smile and say "WE'RE HELPING THE POOR", where is the push for improvements? These types of things will not only apply to those that live in urban areas, but in rural communities as well.
Furthermore, I know a lot of companies that donate monies to predominately non-black high schools and institutions of higher learning as well as provide scholarships. Are these non-black institutions accepting handouts?