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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

The problems you talk about were 50, 60 years ago, our parents generation, and maybe a little bit of our own childhoods.  But this is TODAY.  Youths today are not having rights taken away from them, they get the same classrooms, books and curriculum as the next kid, but now the problem is that it is they themselves who relegate themselves to inferior status, who don't try, who resort to scams, violence or aggression to try and get their way in life because they lack the skills to do it any other way.  It's a part of ingrained, learned culture lingering from prior generations when things were worse - that needs to be dalt with and overcome.  Yes, some programs are working - look at the renaissance happening in Harlem.  It takes strong, concerted engagement at the community level - people reaching out to people and mentoring them early on in terms of proper parenting, life skills and so on.[/quote]

Yes, and that is my point exactly!  This is TODAY which stems from a PAST.

The idea that these people are inferior and need to "deal with their own problems" is insane. A system put them in their predicament in the first place. So, it makes sense that a system could be put in place to help get them out.

The comments about how these boys should somehow "know better" are ridiculous.  Some break out of the cycle but too many do not. Let's help those that do not![/quote]

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