Well, exDem Mom, how much is that good neighborhood worth to you in terms of investing YOUR time, thought and $ towards that end?
I'm not sure what you mean, exactly.
When I was a kid, my family lived in a bad neighborhood for a time. I wanted the heck out of there. It took a long time, but I managed. So now I live in a decent, middle-class, mixed race neighborhood.
Minority children, sadly, are not just raised being steeped in poverty culture--when racism compounds the culture, it makes it that much harder to see any way out or even a way to be better. The problems of black poverty culture run deep, and I do not see any easy way to fix them. How do you impose a work ethic on people who reject such ethic because it is "acting white"?