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re: Why do we have to pretend inner city kids are in hopeless situations?
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:28 am to _Hurricane_
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:28 am to _Hurricane_
Yea I’m over the “they need programs!!!111” excuse.
BREC opened a pool for these kids and it was closed within a few weeks of opening.
Black kids in the hood have far more opportunities and services for them than their counterparts that don’t live in the hood.
BREC opened a pool for these kids and it was closed within a few weeks of opening.
Black kids in the hood have far more opportunities and services for them than their counterparts that don’t live in the hood.
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:32 am to NIH
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Parents need mentors to look up to. How else are you supposed to know to emphasize school and good behavior?
Common sense
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:39 am to SallysHuman
quote:it’s kind of true for a lot of these people. They are very low IQ
Since WHEN is rap or sportsball the only way a kid can make it in life? Ticked me off.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:43 am to SallysHuman
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What struck me was the narrative that these kids saw little way "out"... the white dude basically said sports or rap was the only tickets and not everyone could be talented enough to make it.
They aren't entirely wrong. Most of these kids are functionally retarded.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:47 am to skullhawk
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They aren't entirely wrong. Most of these kids are functionally retarded.
Can still drive a bus, push a mop, run a register, stack books, pave roads, deliver mail... any number of respectable jobs, careers or trades that don't require much IQ.
They don't WAN'T it.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:51 am to _Hurricane_
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Why do we have to pretend inner city kids are in hopeless situations?
They aren't generally, but the culture and environment make it almost impossible to escape it.
Lexington has a program called OneLexington that is focused on youth violence. It's working a bit, but even here, it's a very slow process.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:53 am to _Hurricane_
Because their parent(s) tend to suck
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:55 am to _Hurricane_
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They literally already have all that.
and that is the problem - they need to be engaged in some sort of activity that provides a way out of the lowest level of the 'hood. - Mandatory disciplinary confinement if their parents do not get therm into any other worthwhile effort that takes them off the street.
Parents who refuse to manage their kids behavior should lose their benefits.
enough of this wholesale production/promotion of the future criminal element - nip the problem in the bud and produce worthwhile citizens or else be confined.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:59 am to BabyTac
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The military should be more of an option and more engrained at an early age to everyone as a good thing and bright future. Unfortunately, unless there’s family history, it’s looked at as a last resort, a bad decision, or compared to jail. Need to have more positive Uncle Sam outreach, advertising, and promotions.
Went to high school with a complete thug who may have been the best athlete I’ve ever seen. As he got older and later into high school, he started getting into worse and worse stuff influenced by neighborhood gangs. Eventually got arrested and given an ultimatum of jail or enlisting.
I ran into him at a Walmart several years later and he was a completely different person. Completely turned his life around. Was successful, well spoken, clean cut, and had a very nice family.
This.
It'll never happen but there should be 2 year compulsory military service for all males who just turned 18. It would solve a lot of issues.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:59 am to SallysHuman
quote:no, not really
any number of respectable jobs, careers or trades that don't require much IQ.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:01 am to SallysHuman
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sportsball
Oh sweet Jesus.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 9:03 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:05 am to _Hurricane_
It’s a cop out, all that civil-rights hoopla happened 60 years ago and it’s still the same problems for the same people.
Time for self reflection.
Time for self reflection.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:07 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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quote:any number of respectable jobs, careers or trades that don't require much IQ.
no, not really
Yes, really.
Not everyone is cut out to be a CEO, surgeon or rocket scientist-- and that's okay.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:09 am to Lexis Dad
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Oh sweet Jesus.
Bite me... wasn't typing out all the sports involving balls AND chose the term to highlight the absurdity of such a career path being one of only two viable "ways out".
Sportsball, sportsball, sportsball.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:12 am to kywildcatfanone
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They aren't generally, but the culture and environment make it almost impossible to escape it.
Lexington has a program called OneLexington that is focused on youth violence. It's working a bit, but even here, it's a very slow process.
It is a vicious circle. Until that culture wants to better itself nothing will change.
They want to blame their issues on everyone else instead of teaching their youth to do better or sacrificing for their children to have better lives.
You could throw all the money you want at the issue but it won't change. They have to change their mindset on things. Until then it is a lost cause.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:12 am to ChineseBandit58
My mother was one of those to "never give up." She helped a young man who was a teammate of my younger brother, when his family was experiencing a tragedy. The young man was dirt poor, lived in a shotgun shack and in the worst part of town. The neighbors were pretty racist and didnt appreciate it.
She took him in for a while when his brother died, gave him shoes to play basketball in and the young man graduated college and has a NBA Ring from his team winning the NBA Championship..
She was there for him when he graduated college. She walked the walk.
Not all are hopeless, but many are without intervention on the part of individuals, not collective society.
She took him in for a while when his brother died, gave him shoes to play basketball in and the young man graduated college and has a NBA Ring from his team winning the NBA Championship..
She was there for him when he graduated college. She walked the walk.
Not all are hopeless, but many are without intervention on the part of individuals, not collective society.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:14 am to _Hurricane_
It all starts at the home. They have bad parents.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:15 am to whoa
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Black kids in the hood have far more opportunities and services for them than their counterparts that don’t live in the hood.
A two parent home (hell even a one parent home) that values hard work and education cant be replaced by a government sponsored program ...no matter how many are available. Now some, like the Boys and Girls club absolutely help out poorer or single parent families with things like after school activities and tutoring and I've witnessed that first hand. But there has to be some kind of foundation of good values at home.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 9:16 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:19 am to _Hurricane_
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Why do we have to pretend inner city kids are in hopeless situations?
All you have to do is act right and put a little effort in.
Not that hard to do.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 9:20 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:19 am to SallysHuman
quote:and A LOT of people aren’t cut out to be an electrician or CDL driver
Not everyone is cut out to be a CEO, surgeon or rocket scientist-- and that's okay
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