[ladyjane]

What is wrong with people who refuse to take advantage of the opportunity offered them in this country.

As someone here on FR once said: Some refugees come here not even speaking the language and with nothing more than the shirt on their backs. Within a few years their kids are graduating from high school with honors, they own their own home and three nail salons, and they’re driving a BMW.

[hoosiermama]

Alot of it can be traced back to their home life...Age of parents, drug use, family values.....The welfare system DID destroy the American family...And I'm not sure how much influence DC with one of the highest drug use in the nation has on the open border, drug trafficking scenario, but I'm betting it's a lot bigger than we'll ever know.

[A Navy Vet]

"What is wrong with people who refuse to take advantage of the opportunity offered them in this country. As someone here on FR once said: Some refugees come here not even speaking the language and with nothing more than the shirt on their backs. Within a few years their kids are graduating from high school with honors, they own their own home and three nail salons, and they’re driving a BMW."

I'm sure you're thinking of certain Asian immigrants. Having grown up in an area of Los Angeles around many second generation Japanese, I had the upmost respect as they excelled in school and flourished in everything they attempted. They were model citizens.

That said, I've always believed that work ethic and the reluctance to take handouts is a cultural thing, not a melatonin thing. There are "gimmes" in every ethnic group, including whites.

So, keep the high road, dear lady.

[50sDad]

In the early days of Glenn Beck, he recounted a newspaper article from some major big city. The article said there were black immigrants coming in from Nigeria who were stating up businesses and whose kids were going to school, and at the schools, these kids were being beaten up as outsiders...and some of the ones doing the beatings were parents of the school kids.

Now, if you read that, our preconceived filters would say, "Man, some white kids are beating on those black foreign kids! What terrible people we are!"

Of course, later the real story comes out. The kids doing the beating were black themselves, and they were doing it because the new kids were trying too hard. The new kids, who had been raised with a work ethic and who were glad to be receiving a free education in a land where the secret police didn't make you disappear in the middle of the night were a threat to the existing inner city black kids because they were "dissing" them by getting outstanding grades. Yep, their (implied WHITE) choice to excel was embarrassing the other kids...and their parents...who were later reported to also be upset at how well the smart kids parents were doing in the neighborhood, pushing out homegrown businesses (by working 20 hours a day, providing good service, cheap prices and quality product.)

In the end, remember it is all about Culture, not Color. Through Uncle Sugar's Magic Giveaway Program we have destroyed a big chunk of black families. Where men were once shunned if they failed to provide for their family, we have made Uncle Sugar the provider, with no social stigma. Where once it was looked down on to have a child out of wedlock, now it is a "lifestyle choice." For this select slice of the black pie, the inner city subculture, the "pastors" spend more time Blaming Whitey than condemning sin in their congregants. With the Absent Dad, the programming that says, "go make something of yourself! What's wrong with you!?" is replaced by the grandmother saying "The police are shooting our babies!!! Little (27-year-old) Willie is just hated by all those racist bosses he's had that keep firing him for no reason at all!"

I think people of every color have the benefits of our great land, and all can excel and make themselves as rich as their own efforts can take them. Democrats tell these people that "there is no possible way you can get ahead on your own, you need us to take money from the evil rich people and provide for you." Of course, you know, this difference of opinion is what makes ME and people like me, "racists."