re: "Stop blaming black parents for underachieving kids"

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Americans are born on a mountain of gold. It's true some start out with better shovels than others, but all you have to do is dig.

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you have to make a bunch of really shitty decisions to be legit poor in the US. taking education seriously is on my list to avoid poverty for sure

i just read an article on smoking yesterday and who still smokes and, of course, it's disproportionate to poor people. reminds me of my theory about how ever piece produced by liberal media using an individual to project the "poor life" will include a passage defending that subject's smoking