<p>“In my experience, it doesn’t. Rather it emboldens them further. Understand that a large portion of the African-American community is fatalistic. They look around and believe that nothing that they do will change their circumstances. And to some degree, I understand why.”
Don’t you think this says more about their mind state rather their environment? I know children who go to inner city schools where AAs make up the majority, while whites/asians/indians make up the minority. While ironically the honors/AP classes are filled with white, asian, and indian students. Are these AA kids not given the same chance to thrive as their low income counterparts?</p>
<p>“I’ve seen countless more crushed under the weight of their circumstance. We can’t blame them for not being able to surmount nearly impossible odds.”
Difficult? Yes, impossible? No. These aren’t 3rd world children in africa. </p>
<p>Get to know some of those kids that are standing near the entrance of their block’s liquor store. Ask them about their family lives. Ask them about their education. Ask them about their lives."
But i do the many kids in inner cities though. I can say with confidence a majority of them don’t care for their education. And just because your father isnt around, and your mom works a lot, you get a pass to sell drugs, act foolishly in public, and kill YOUR OWN BROTHERS. Think about it, you’re killing your own people. Damn…</p>
<p>“And then ask YOURSELF if, under the circumstances, you would have actually been better off. Don’t place you, the one that has been molded by your semi-affluent neighborhood and and good parenting, in his circumstances. Place the bare you – unshaped clay – in their lives. Absorb their values not knowing any better. Feel their desperation and fatalism.”
Yes without a doubt i’d still do good. If anything i’d be even MORE motivated to succeed given my humble origins.</p>