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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4947797" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>When intact families aren't emphasized, when completing education isn't emphasized, outcomes often aren't that great.  You can choose to make foundational changes, or you can complain how racist the world is against you because you aren't getting that good paying job or you and your friends are being arrested at high rates because you deal drugs on the side.  There's a side of the black community that works very hard, got the education, and are succeeding.  And there's a side that has experienced decades of government dependency, lives in deteriorating tenements, deals with crime and drugs either directly or indirectly almost every day, and thinks everything is the white man's fault.  Do you think more government programs will fix that?</p></blockquote><p></p>