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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ I think the poster was lamenting on a cultural issue that dates back to that time. Not discussing it over dinner[/quote]
Please be quiet and take a seat, grown folk atectalkingcand you are just inserting yourself to make up stuff about black people.
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OK - though I am not the one that wrote the below - its sounds like an AA did.  It looks like your reaction is a perfect example of what this person is talking about - you need to fight and prove yourself to make a point rather than discuss an issue in an intelligent manner.  I have made nothing up - just interpreting what I perceive to be a misunderstanding of what this person is trying to express.  Although - I am a bit more optimistic and think it can go away with time and a change in social norms and expectation of future opportunities.

Anonymous wrote:
The real problem is African American teens. The mentality that we, as African Americans, [b]need to still fight and prove ourselves like that of slavery days. Sadly it will never go away.
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Intellectual Response to idiocy is a waste of time.
Here is the short answer: black people really and truly do not need you telling us what we should do and the so called problems plaguing the millions of different black folk in America![/quote]

I would never assume to give you advice. It is very clear to everyone that you are doing such a great job solving all the problems of black kids in DC.  Never mind all the black folk in America.

I understand that there is a diversity of people, and I also understand as have stated that the solution needs to come internally from the community.  I just know that pointing outward will not solve the problem.[/quote]
Again I ask
What 
Community????
Which one ???[/quote

The different black communities... as black people do not want help or advise from white people, they need to fix any self perceived problems in their own communities.  It must come from within in order to be culturally appropriate or accepted. 
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Why ?
Seriously why do I need to go to Southeast to try to "fix" that community? Just because I am black?
I live somewhere else , why do I need to go there , just because I am black?
 Are you going to Appalacia or any other area rural or urban to combat heroine and meth addiction among white people??
Come on, you have to realize how ridiculous your premise is !
But maybe u don't ![/quote]

Clearly literacy is the issue here.  I would never to presume to tell you to do anything.  I am saying that if any individual community it to change it must come from within the community itself.  On a micro-or-macro level. It would not be accepted by the community if directed by external factors.

Actually, I do volunteer in DC to work with young people with HIV/AIDS.  I consider DC in general my community.  If there were more white meth addicts in DC within a metro ride away I may also help them but really do not have the skills with drug addiction.  I have also worked several years in Africa working with communities in post conflict situations reintegrating child combatants back into communities.

Now, what do you do to help any community?[/quote]
What you said here I can understand and agree with,  it is the premise that some black family in Olney is somehow responsible for "" fixing some random black I'm black teenager on metro that is what I take issue with .[/quote]

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