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[quote=Anonymous]Something is broken in the lower middle class AA community. Back in the 60s-70s when there was MUCH more racism, when a black child talked about being an engineer or a nurse or anything -- the parents/grandparents used to tell them -- you're going to have to work hard and because you're black you're going to have to work 10x as hard as a white person to get the same opportunities. So if a white engineer could go to part time night school at Rutgers and get that job at GE, a black engineer will only get that job with a UPenn or MIT engineering degree. And my dad and my uncles did it as did so many of their friends, despite the fact that their parents were a maid and a retail store clerk so it's not like they were coming from such wealth or upper classes. And it put their kids -- my generation -- that much further ahead.

Now in the same demographic where people are retail workers, house cleaners etc., if dad is even around -- if they don't get what they want, they scream for equality and then quit/settle for whatever jobs and education. Yes equality would be nice, but come on. It's not happening in America probably ever so what exactly is wrong with the model of -- if you want to develop wealth, you will have to work 10x harder than white people?? I get that it isn't fair, but sitting there wallowing in the unfairness of it all is what holds the community back as a whole from a wealth perspective.[/quote]

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