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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with 11:04 and 11:17.

I think many of the comments here are coded racism and also classism. It's not only AA kids who yell and curse, just like drug trafficking is not only in low income AA neighborhoods. It comes down to deeply ingrained societal prejudices -- we turn a blind eye/ear to behavior in other races that is somehow deplorable when it's perpetrated by AAs.

There are just as many if not more drug transactions on middle and upper class white college campuses as there are on the corners of low income AA neighborhoods, but there are no cops on the college campuses breathing down those students' necks.

The posts here show that inappropriate behavior in teens crosses race and class lines. Some of the folks posting here are media-saturated -- the media loves to print and produce polarizing data, often out of context, as that is sensationalist, and sensationalism sells. Some of the PPs seem to have read the story and forgotten to seek out the context.

I also totally agree with 11:17 in that my personal taste would be to eradicate every item listed in that post.[/quote]

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