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To: goldworldnet who wrote (99062)	3/21/2005 3:40:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

The real question is, how do you fix what is broken in the black communities, namely families? What successful minorities generally having going for them are strong family systems which put a high premium on education. Now we can bitch and moan about how that is missing in the black community, but I'm more interested in fixing it. A pull yourself up by your bootstraps approach is going to leave far too many children in the dust (imo) and what we really need to do is break the cycle of poverty and poverty thinking. Education and incentives are needed to reach whole families in our disintegrating inner cities. It's always satisfying to blame people for where they are, and to some extent people are responsible for their own lives- but it's hard to see how the child of a crack whore can be expected to grow up to be an outstanding adult. SOME of them may grow up to be outstanding adults, but I don't think most will. So, I've always advocated intensive intervention in the most desperate places in America. I think we should have the government running training businesses in the inner cities that train people to go to work- how to dress for work, how to speak at work, how to show up to work, how to actually do a job; we should give the children of the poor the kind of childcare they need to overcome their tragic backgrounds (it's amazing how few words these kids hear from their parents, because their parents have no vocabulary, and no child rearing skills); and we should give people incentives to make them want to do this. It would be costly in the short run, but (imo) a savings in the long run- especially when you factor in the savings in human lives and dignity.