re: Dennis Prager on why poverty does NOT cause crime

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I agree that almost all the problems in the black/white community stem from this. So with that being said, we are basically throwing good money away investing in something that will never change, right? Or is the answer to have the government/churches/etc. start raising kids instead of the parents? Seems like the definition of insanity to just keep giving handouts to people that will never change.

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I wholeheartedly agree that "handouts" are not the answer. I've said many times that I don't have any solutions. That's what's so distressing to me about this topic - this country has committed such an evil that I'm not sure it can be repaired.

I think the only way is for an honest accounting to be taken of what contributed to this mess. And despite people continually saying "it's in the textbooks"...it just isn't, not in any meaningful sort of way. I'll bet that to a man on this board, if you sought out the older generations in your families and said "why didn't black people start buying houses in 1950 just like grandpa?" the answer would NOT BE: "well, you see, Jim Crow was alive and well...even going so far as to have the federal government actively engaged in preventing them from doing so". MUCH MORE LIKELY would be "these people were always lazy and could never get their shite together".