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To: Ilaine who wrote (136140)	9/1/2005 2:17:59 PM
From: Whitebeard	Respond to of 793843

CB, thanks for the most honest statement of the reality of the situation that I've seen in years. We don't dare speak about it plainly because of PC and accusations of racism. The violent poor, the lumpenproleteriat, have been a constant throughout my entire life. The hard core poor have always been there. All the money, quotas, the best the social engineers on both side of the aisle have to offer, has not amounted to the proverbial hill of beans. I will say that before Johnson and his Great Society, it seemed to me there was more of a family structure. I'm talking about in the 50's. Moniyhan was right; nobody listened or they stuffed their ears. Poor blacks live in a matriarchal society. As a generalization, If they had a caring mother or grandmother, many of the young males survived the negative social environment they grew up in, and did well. At least that has been the situation with a number of my black friends. The point is there are hard core groupings of poor blacks sprinkled throughout the country, on the dole and riven by dope, mainly crack, and to the best of my knowledge the numbers and destructive behavior has never changed. That's never ever in my lifetime. We ignore it, because the problem has proven to be intractable. Only no one dares say it. The glaring implications are too frightening.