Posted on 12/06/2013 1:12:02 PM PST by artichokegrower
Really? How about parents getting serious about their kids while they're in high school? And once they are in college, how about they get serious about their studies? Why is this somebody else's fault, and not their own? Perhaps it's time for them to take responsibility for their own failings. After all, other minority groups do quite well under the current system.
“The Bell Curve” explains.
Sometime between then and now...LBJ happened.
I can’t find it now, but I once read a fascinating article about the employment rate, single mother rate, incarceration rate of the black population before and after the ‘War on Poverty’. It was stunning.
Anyway, we are three generations into this now, and the ‘Don’t be a sucker’ mentality has definitely set in. There are notable exceptions of course...but the people who are these exceptions have to overcome great peer pressure from their own families and friends, before they can go out and achieve.
That's it! Why didn't we think of that before?
Set a goal! Failure is not an option.
There. Fixed.
Idiots.
I blame Hollywierd.
If they didn’t glamorize gangsta pimps and drug dealers, then the kids would get educated and make something of themselves. Instead they all want to be in show business or they want to be into illegal stuff.
Sorry, I do not believe 24% of black and 41% of white Californians have college degrees. Unless they are including a diploma from beauty school or other vocational training as a “degree.”
That's because they weren't qualified to attend to begin with. The problem is affirmative action and PC. Let them stand on their own and many will do better, don't pass them just because they are black and teach them that "acting white" is not evil but to be desired. By acting white I mean getting and education and acting civilized.
Because they are trying not to “ack white”. (Yes, actual quote I heard from one of the hoodlums.)
“32 percent of black Californians who attended college dropped out, more than any other group, according to 2011 U.S. census data.”
Contestants are needed for the “knockout game.” Oops. The problem that the Trayvons have is that the Mexicans are knocking them out of Southern California. See here:
Mexican gangs trying to run black families out of southern California
http://www.examiner.com/article/mexican-gangs-trying-to-run-black-families-out-of-southern-california
We, the hard working taxpayers, have tried to help the Blacks for decades and they have refused to help themselves. Special treatment, affirmative action, free auto insurance, free housing, free child care, free food, free health insurance, free everything. We have even tried to improve their so-called low self-esteem by given them a Black president and they're still refusing to help themselves and even demanding more free stuff. The more they get the more they want.
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