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To: Metacomet who wrote (259406)	8/29/2014 7:20:06 PM
From: Mark Mandel	Respond to of 540901

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To: Metacomet who wrote (259406)	8/29/2014 7:30:33 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540901

I think it's more that you live in Arizona and I live in Arkansas, and I have a wealth of experiences based on personal observation and lifelong friendships in the black community. But if it makes your day to label me as a garden variety racist, then go right ahead and feel good about yourself. I would be curious to know, though, if you have ever done one single thing PERSONALLY to make the life of an African American better. Voting, posting, and donating money don't count.

To: Metacomet who wrote (259406)	8/29/2014 9:08:46 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540901

Meta- I think I know what she is trying to say, as I said something similar years ago, though mine was not dependent on race, or being single, but on dysfunction coupled with poverty. I suggested that either we needed support for very poor dysfunctional families (of all colors) that involved a network of medical, social services (including nutrition and parental counseling), preschool and school services OR we needed to remove children from homes rife with danger and neglect and put them in homes where they could flourish, attain the potential which they were born with, and break the cycle of poverty and dysfunction in to which they were born. It's not dependent on color- it's dependent on poverty COUPLED with dysfunction. There are poor people who are perfectly functional, and who will, in time, work their way out of poverty, or at least free their children from poverty. And then there are families trapped in generational cycels- these are the people who it is most difficult to help, because society doesn't have the will to do what is needed, and the people themselves seem to be unable to free themselves.