<p>your environment is the result of your’s tax income bracket</p>
<p>its because of the environment</p>
<p>I guarantee you that if you take any of these kids when they were born and put them into an environment that is supportive and caring, 95% will come out fine.</p>
<p>Post #17: “No 5th grader is thinking about feeding their family and his/her parents probably shield them from their money troubles”</p>
<p>I felt compelled to refute this. I’m hispanic, and my family is under the poverty line.
I have been worrying about money and our financial troubles ever since I could remember. There have been times where I didn’t have anything to eat for a few days, because my mother couldn’t even afford to buy food for the all of us. When your family gets evicted from every apartment like every other month because you can’t make the rent, then it’s easy to not care about school, even at a young age.</p>
<p>Children know when something is wrong. If our basic needs aren’t satisfied, then how could we care about something like school? It becomes all about just making it to the next day.</p>
<p>My mother just didn’t have the energy to help me with my homework, after working long hours. She didn’t know how to encourage me to go to school. I chose to go to school. It was better than being bored at home.</p>
<p>My mother dropped out to get her GED because she got pregnant with me, and my father never made it past the 9th grade.
I, however, will be breaking the cycle. I have a high GPA, a 29 ACT, (which is good enough for me) and will be the first in my family to go to college, much less actually finish high school.</p>
<p>FOR EXAMPLE, did you know that African immigrants in the late 1900s have the highest educational attainment out of all ethnic groups? This is because there are too many doctor/lawyers in those countries and not enough clients, so they move to the US. That is why in your class, the only 2-3 black people in the AP classes will probably have african last names, and their parents will be doctors or lawyers who speak in african accents.</p>
<p>Well, according to Wikipedia.</p>
<p>African Immigrants get it.</p>
<p>As a people, we don’t.</p>
<p>Uhm other black people don’t get it, I want to be a doctor xD</p>
<p>That was in general.</p>
<p>Negligent!</p>
<p>I love black people, but I hate n*ggas</p>
<p>This video kinda sums up some of the arguments in the thread. </p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - tupac hates white people](<a href=“tupac hates white people - YouTube”>tupac hates white people - YouTube)</p>
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This 10char</p>
<p>Yes it is on point</p>
<p>This entire thread is pointless lol…but yes that video is on point</p>
<p>I woke up, saw this and immediately thought, “Not this motherf**<strong><em>g *</em></strong> again”
Why don’t we all just agree that white people were the basis of all of our problems, and leave it at that?</p>
<p>^ Because the problem is more complex than that.
The thread died once people got in an argument on blame.</p>
<p>Again, the answer is because they didn’t follow my way of life.</p>
<p>^ Essentially.</p>
<p>Alright. this was a decent argument. We need a new topic in a new thread.</p>
<p>I leave for a couple hours and this is what happens.</p>
<p>You guys never cease to amaze me.</p>
<p>Let’s just go with my culture argument right. Different cultures coerce different things (Asian: academics, Blacks: basketball)</p>
<p>That’s all folks.</p>
<p>Yes, white people are the ones that put blacks in America in poverty.
Yes, the culture engendered by this poverty has become a cycle.
No, trying to get white people to solve it won’t work. healing [the “PTSD”] needs to come from within the black community- things like AA are a band-aid solution and are futile at best. </p>
<p>And don’t tell me it’s impossible to break a cycle of ignorance and poverty.
Anecdote time: My great grandfather was a [poor] Pentecostal preacher in Mississippi. He placed no emphasis on education. When my grandpa expressed interest in college, my great grandfather [henceforth known as “granddaddy”] told him it was a waste of time and money and that he’d be better off getting a stable job right out of high school at the shipyard. My grandpa didn’t listen, went to college, and did far better financially than his father and the rest of his family ever had. He did well, and pushed my father to do well academically.</p>
<p>Poverty is obviously a factor but they’ve done studies and they’ve shown that black boys in middle class black families do worse than white boys in lower class white families.</p>