100 Percent of Black Students Graduate from Low-Income Brooklyn Public High School

[Anonymous]

God, I miss brooklyn, where people were not psychotic racist dimwits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God, I miss brooklyn, where people were not psychotic racist dimwits.

LOL NYC is worse
http://jezebel.com/how-racism-is-driving-new-york-citys-gentrification-1703971124

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

OMG!!! You folks are too much! All that is fine and good, but do you know WHY this article was even posted? It was to rebut the CONSTANT assertions by some White people on here that AA's are not doing anything to improve their communites or to help themselves. So a person posts an article to rebut that assertion and you accuse them of wanting to be patted on the back. Y'all are friggin crazy! I mean full on batcrap looney!

It was posted as if it shows more than it does. No one says that NOTHING IS BEING DONE but rather that not enough is being done and at times the standards aren't what they should be. Every program like this, and there are many, one of which I have contributed too, is great but it is a very, very small number that needs to be more. Consider that you might be just taking out the top students leaving the other 95% behind. And while you are doing well for that 5%, and that number isn't intended to be righteous, might be 10% or 2%, you are hurting the ones left behind because you are removing some of the best and brightest among their peers.

BTW, you are assuming some comments are by white people when in fact that might not be the case. And, you are setting up a racial divide by color with your assumptions. Fact is there are PLENTY of people who are concerned with these kind of issues on all sides of the 'color' spectrum.

You folks...just stop. This whole statement is self-serving and so condescending. We do not need this kind of help. From anyone. Of any color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

the projects in the Bronx, yes white people live there too,

[Anonymous]

They handpick the kids and do not accept kids who are behind in reading or have a past history of bad behavior. They are taking the cream of the crop. I would hope it was 100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

You seem to lack reading comprehension skills though because I think the OP made it clear why they posted this and it wasn't for a pat on the back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

NP

Doesn't have to be a ghetto, poor is poor. Two families living together, 11 people in all, in a small house the size of many apartments now days and no assistance of any kind because there was no such thing. BTDT. Crime that's associated with ghettos? No. Just below the poverty line poor.

PP is the one who made the assertion that she is white and grew up in the ghetto, not that she was merely poor. I called her out on the BS. Nevertheless your post doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of living just below the poverty line with no such thing as public assistance. There's got to be more to this story.

Simple, no food stamps, no section 8, just wasn't there. So you live where you can and combine families to afford the basics. For some we didn't even have the basics as they wouldn't consider buying clothes in second hand stores, sleeping on the floor with a thin mat to lay on and sometimes have one meal, often a single course, in a day as having the basics met. For us, it was. And I didn't mean it was 'just', barely, below the poverty live but in fact that while we weren't living in what would be considered a ghetto we still lived below the line. In time, little by little, hard work resulted in a gradual increase in the standard of living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

You seem to lack reading comprehension skills though because I think the OP made it clear why they posted this and it wasn't for a pat on the back.

Everyone can't be as proficient in reading comprehension as you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

NP

Doesn't have to be a ghetto, poor is poor. Two families living together, 11 people in all, in a small house the size of many apartments now days and no assistance of any kind because there was no such thing. BTDT. Crime that's associated with ghettos? No. Just below the poverty line poor.

Are you 100 years old, because Aid to Dependent Children was established in the 1930s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

the projects in the Bronx, yes white people live there too,

Okay, I'm convinced! You realize that the Bronx is the third largest borough in NYC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

NP

Doesn't have to be a ghetto, poor is poor. Two families living together, 11 people in all, in a small house the size of many apartments now days and no assistance of any kind because there was no such thing. BTDT. Crime that's associated with ghettos? No. Just below the poverty line poor.

Are you 100 years old, because Aid to Dependent Children was established in the 1930s.

Yep. I can recall the soup lines like it was yesterday. Good ole President Hoover gave us some tough love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

NP

Doesn't have to be a ghetto, poor is poor. Two families living together, 11 people in all, in a small house the size of many apartments now days and no assistance of any kind because there was no such thing. BTDT. Crime that's associated with ghettos? No. Just below the poverty line poor.

PP is the one who made the assertion that she is white and grew up in the ghetto, not that she was merely poor. I called her out on the BS. Nevertheless your post doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of living just below the poverty line with no such thing as public assistance. There's got to be more to this story.

Simple, no food stamps, no section 8, just wasn't there. So you live where you can and combine families to afford the basics. For some we didn't even have the basics as they wouldn't consider buying clothes in second hand stores, sleeping on the floor with a thin mat to lay on and sometimes have one meal, often a single course, in a day as having the basics met. For us, it was. And I didn't mean it was 'just', barely, below the poverty live but in fact that while we weren't living in what would be considered a ghetto we still lived below the line. In time, little by little, hard work resulted in a gradual increase in the standard of living.

No meals at school either?

http://www.educationbug.org/a/the-history-of-the-school-lunch-program.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

the projects in the Bronx, yes white people live there too,

Okay, I'm convinced! You realize that the Bronx is the third largest borough in NYC?

West Bronx? Riverdale? Soundview? Marble Hill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the ghetto, single parent and made it out and am doing well

I am white. no difference between me and the black kids but I am not looking for articles to be written and a pat on my back.

Ah yes, the world reknown white ghetto of ... where exactly?

NP

Doesn't have to be a ghetto, poor is poor. Two families living together, 11 people in all, in a small house the size of many apartments now days and no assistance of any kind because there was no such thing. BTDT. Crime that's associated with ghettos? No. Just below the poverty line poor.

PP is the one who made the assertion that she is white and grew up in the ghetto, not that she was merely poor. I called her out on the BS. Nevertheless your post doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of living just below the poverty line with no such thing as public assistance. There's got to be more to this story.

Simple, no food stamps, no section 8, just wasn't there. So you live where you can and combine families to afford the basics. For some we didn't even have the basics as they wouldn't consider buying clothes in second hand stores, sleeping on the floor with a thin mat to lay on and sometimes have one meal, often a single course, in a day as having the basics met. For us, it was. And I didn't mean it was 'just', barely, below the poverty live but in fact that while we weren't living in what would be considered a ghetto we still lived below the line. In time, little by little, hard work resulted in a gradual increase in the standard of living.

Did you ever find a Golden Ticket in your Wonkabar?