In my post I was referring mainly to the black children reared in ghettos where warring gangs, drive-by shootings, frequent murders, drugs, etc. hardly inspire a desire for education. Those who want to learn are accused of "acting white".
Many of these kids probably come from generations of famililies existing on welfare.
Maybe I sound like a bleeding-heart liberal but I'm far from that. Crime deserves punishment, and in some cases, parents should be jailed along with their child.
I’m sorry if I came off a little “intense” (no pun intended). I didn’t mean to imply you had liberal tendencies, but people who are products of their environment do not get a pass on their behavior. I’m sorry my parents had a lousy childhood also, but it made them better for it, not worse. In other words, they decided not to perpetuate a pattern set by their fathers. They could have claimed victimhood, but instead chose to overcome their circumstance. Likewise, anyone, no matter what color or race or gender should make more intelligent choices like not sitting there and wringing their hands and blaming everything on someone else.