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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you don't have any options except for gang banging or stealing it's not going to be easy to take a different path. If your adolescent brain were presented two paths, 1) get high, get women, sell dope make money now vs 2) graduate high school, go to school for 4 more years, struggle to get a desk job and then get women and money

Which path would you take? Especially when everyone is taking path 1 and dad isn't around.[/quote]

It has to start with the family unit and culture.  Poverty does not have to equal poor behavior.  My mother was a single parent with three kids and we were always just scraping by in terms of financial security and impending chaos in terms of our housing situation.  However, education was highly valued and we were expected to do well in school.  We certainly did not have expensive clothes but we were dressed appropriately, spoke respectfully to everyone, and were taught to respect authority.  [/quote]

I'd like to know how getting good grades and being dressed in your Sunday best will keep a store security guard from following you and watching your every move and automatically assuming you're up to something.
I'd like to know how being respectful and enunciating words properly will prevent you from getting pulled over for DWB (driving while black).
I'd like to know how does an honest intelligent articulate compassionate accomplished man of integrity avoid being seen as something totally different at first glance simply because his skin holds so many negative perceptions.
What else does he need to do?[/quote]

Right, there are a lot of racists out there, of all races.  Stop acting like you deserve special treatment because you're discriminated against.  Work hard, find jobs that pay well and in which discrimination is harder to get away with, build a strong and resilient family and community network, focus on long-term family goals, and keep doing that for several generations.  Acknowledge but do not focus of unfairness, just push your way through it.  That's what my family has done and, for us, it has worked well.  It was in a different country and was a long slog, but I've seen it work here as well.  If I wanted to focus in all the hurdles set up in front of me, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere in this world.  [/quote]

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