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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (30540)	6/30/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Spent much time in LA? Me neither. Some. But I think, it's school as an after effect; of the lack of home community. There is no visible hope; no investment. I don't favor entitlements, either. Jobs, and culture. The ghetto is hard to get out of, for a million reasons; school is just a bit. The place sucks. If you are there, it has a way of defining you. Not "the greatest"; but they, the lucky, escape and never return. It provides NO HOPE or IDEAS to the many.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (30540)	6/30/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Here we are, buncha whiteys sittin' aroun' talkin' about the black man... I was just about to contribute my own set of cliches, when I realized they all came out of books and magazine articles. <g> Where are our black SI posters, who might be able to give us a point of view from really down under The Man? Something closer to the straight poop, as it were? Joan

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (30540)	6/30/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

But I do NOT think our corporate culture has any bearing on this. Perhaps not yours, but I think mine does. I am in domestic/international sales in the technical field. And I think there is a subtle, perhaps subconscious bias against putting blacks on the front lines, that is, where they are interfacing with customers, other companies etc. In my whole career, I have only met one black salesman in my line of work. And he was in charge of sales in Africa.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (30540)	6/30/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: melinda abplanalp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Schools in the city pretty much suck. It makes me sick to see the money spent on suburban schools vs city schools. There is no level playing school...just a big hill. Gaugs is right..city's have no jobs no hope. Been to South Central lately?? Best thing going is the church. Coorporations should invest in the city schools in their area. Maybe some of the wealthy people in the burbs could buy a computer for the city kids. Spread the wealth. Tutors tutors tutors...they need tutors.