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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anyone who doesn't think ghetto culture is patterned, modeled, taught and learned beginning at an early age is obtuse. 
obtuse - annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. 
"he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse"

It's learning that has to be deprogrammed and replaced with something else. Otherwise it's self-defeating and self-limiting and will constantly undermine kids and if the cycle isn't broken, it will continue on for generation after generation. Kids make themselves their own worst enemies when they continue down a path of ghetto culture.[/quote]

Do you think that about every black kid?  Or just most of them?
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Of course not.  A majority of black kids in America are NOT at-risk kids in broken homes in the ghetto - and nobody here ever suggested they were.  There are hundreds of thousands of middle and upper class black families all around DC and its burbs where this is not an issue.  The issue isn't mere fact of race, it's directed at a specific set of behaviors and beliefs among some of the inner-city poor (and I'd argue that some of those problematic behaviors and beliefs are not just a "black" thing - poor whites and others also get caught up in it).  Did you think the President had the culture and behavior of his own daughters Sasha and Malia and any of their black peers in mind with "Brother's Keeper"?  I don't think he did.  Did you think that asking that question was somehow going to change the underlying premise of self-defeating behavior among those kids who ARE living in that world?  I  don't think it does.[/quote]

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