Tap the brakes, Big Scrub - this isn't 1955 anymore. ANYONE who wants an eduction can get it in 2014 - plenty of money to go around. I borrowed money to go to school, pretty sure Jake did, as did 90% of my law school classmates.

Don't tell me brothers can't be bothered to fill out the paperwork. There are whole separate funds of money and other programs just for black folks to go to school.

Play another card.

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Posted by tiderider

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Posted on 11/19/14 at 12:30 pm to Ace Midnight

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, saying she was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy.[15] Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[16] she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

she seems to have overcome this horrible atrocity committed by america ...

course, if her ancestral tribe hadn't sold her into slavery, she never would've been a billionaire ...

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

Member since Dec 2013

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Posted on 11/19/14 at 12:46 pm to Ace Midnight

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Tap the brakes, Big Scrub - this isn't 1955 anymore. ANYONE who wants an eduction can get it in 2014 - plenty of money to go around. I borrowed money to go to school, pretty sure Jake did, as did 90% of my law school classmates. Don't tell me brothers can't be bothered to fill out the paperwork. There are whole separate funds of money and other programs just for black folks to go to school.

Due to draconian sentencing laws (largely put into place under Clinton) even very small-time criminal offenses preclude student loan borrowings. And keep in mind - black people are arrested at much higher rates than white people...even when the overall commission levels of the crime are about equal. (The simple way to think about it would be the white kid with the professional dad gets off with a wrist slap and no record while the black kid is fully prosecuted.)

This doesn't tell the whole story, but I believe sentencing and prison reform is an absolute necessity. The ridiculous, abusive system in place now preys on minorities and the poor and effectively erects permanent roadblocks for them.

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