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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Using Obama as an example is ridiculous. The man grew up in an educated middle class white family and went to private school.  While he had to face some of the prejudice that other young black men face (despite the fact that he's half white, he looks black and people respond to him as black), he had enormous advantages by comparison, in particular growing up in a family where people expected to be well-served by educational institutions.

Give me an example of someone who grew up in public housing with black parents who had drug habits who didn't finish high school.  There are folks like that out there.  Tell me how they achieved their success. That would be a good example.

But using Obama to prove your point is rather odd and suggests  a lack of knowledge about this community in general. [/quote]

Oh, I suppose it was a white man who held a gun to heads and told people they had to stay in public housing in neighborhoods where there  is a high cost of living and no jobs.  It was he who held the gun to their heads and forced them to do drugs and get addicted.  It was he who stood armed guard at the door of their high school  and kept them from entering, for no good reason, to keep them from getting an education.

No, that problem is entirely within that community itself, it is its own enemy.   [/quote]

“If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.” Carter G. Woodson
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