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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Evidently in confusing posters, the previous poster made a blanket statement saying "go f yourself" - I guess we are all supposed to go and f ourselves.

Likewise, so did the person claiming anyone here said anything about "all" black people.   That's evidently a blanket statement telling us we are all racists.

Only problem is, nobody here said ALL, they said "segments" and "swaths" and also said there are segments in white culture too.  Certainly, there are African Americans who do value education.

So, the charge of racism is wrong.  Try again, this time without the race card.[/quote]

Sorry dude, but when you post the following: 
What's being missed here is that the NPR story also spoke of how, [b]decades ago, African Americans valued educational achievement [/b]and sought out opportunities like Dunbar. [b]Nowadays the culture has changed to where too many either just take education for granted or don't value it at all[/b].

It is hard not to jump to the conclusion that the poster is making a blanket statement.  When you start a sentence using nostalgia, and then conclude that it no longer exists, it's hard to read between the lines.  Example, "remember when we used to use pagers and had numerical codes for words" or "remember back when the wife stayed home and the dad worked 9-5 and would come home to dinner on the table"...sure people might still be holding on to an older pager or there are still some single working households that have dinner at 5pm every day but that's not the norm.  Especially because PP's statement is just not true.  [b]There are more and more AA that are getting degrees and advanced degrees than "decades ago".  [/b]So not only did PP just state a false statement, but she made a generalization that is not just or fair.  Just because you live in a majority black city where you happen to see more black crime and drop outs, doesn't make it ok to make a statement like that.

Race card be damned, it was inaccurate. [/quote]

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