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To: koan who wrote (249440)	4/21/2014 7:31:19 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542238

I doubt..Black repubs...consider themselves...black it is said..OJ...did not see himself as such

To: koan who wrote (249440)

4/22/2014 12:26:55 AM

From: Bread Upon The Water

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542238

I have thought about everything in your post. If a black person is a pub, I have to question their judgement.

But this is a guy (Riley) who is on the front lines, and, for him, the other side's prescription was/is not working. So he's for what is working within the realm of his experience. In other words, he comes to his choice not out of philosophy (apparently), but pragmatism. And I would think Democrats would want to incorporate into their programs whatever works in turning lives in inner cities around.

As for your educational prescriptions--those are good things no doubt. But I think you've analyzed the cure for the problem backwards. You've got the cure contained in your answer. It is:

The rich and academics enroll their kids in the best pre schools the minute they are born. They know it is that important. Our clan discusses every academic move of the grand kids. We literally work on balancing learning and playing. But education is a constant, really in our entire clan.

The key IMHO is rising a kid in culture that promotes education. if he goes home to single parent who is a high school drop out there is mixed message there coming down the pike. You're assuming the educational instruction will "take". But is the role model of the parent and where they are living one that will let it take? Statistically, kids from two parent families do way better in becoming "successes" (success being able to support yourself as an adult), and part of that is the two parent families stress the values that lead to success.
So this is why I think Democrats should support polices that lead to the formation of two parent families.

I don't know at present if the role model of the single parent and where they are living is producing successes and that is why I want to measure it in terms of "Are we graduating successes (if indeed we are graduating any at all) at the other end of the process?". Throw seeds on barren ground without care and watering and at best you've got is wilted plants--no?

Both parties have to set aside the rhetoric and get a lot more pragmatic IMHO in solving this problem.