Well, I think its nice. There are so many bad neighborhoods out there where people don't have any positive influence or reinforcement.
I think its great that Obama wants to help groups affected by high crime and incarceration rates.
Also, "minorities" or "of color" does not just mean black people.
With all the hooting and hollering people do on this forum about "thugs" and "skittles"...I find it hilarious that one of those people are now screaming its racist to want keep people from becoming "thugs" and "skittles".
Handout programs cannot keep people from becoming Skittles. Only the Mars corporation can do that. With, you know, fences around the machinery and such.
Fuck you.
I help in spite of your culture and lift others. Your attitude is the problem. Until black culture realizes that you are perpetually doomed
Her attitude is fine. She has done what she needed to do - stay clean, don't get knocked up without a mate, get a useful education, get a suitably profitable job, help keep her sister out of trouble. Recognizing that anyone can do it does not negate recognizing that many people won't do it, but might with a little more suitable help.
Put it this way - if you have a dozen cattle stuck in a bog and one climbs out, you don't just demand that they all climb out, you help the others get out. We kill cattle at will for meat; these are people. Surely we can exert more effort for people than for cattle.
You are a piece of sh!t. There are plenty of positive things about black culture. And if they got racist fer like you as a mentor it doesn't say much about the place where you work. I am just sick and tired of reading your bs. You are a revolting, ignorant, and vile human being.
He has a point though. A big part of black culture (to the extent such a thing can exist) is destructive of self and society. This is exactly what programs like this aim to change. The only place he errs is in assuming that black culture is only these things, that people like you and Shehateme must embrace either good white culture or bad black culture. In reality black culture is every bit as much you and Shehateme as it is gangsta rap and snitches get stitches, just as those same thuggish elements are a part of white culture. Culture is merely the integral of every piece of the group, an amorphous artificial construct which may or may not be useful but which can never be a totally accurate description of any of the individuals to which it is applied. Once we get to the point of demanding that someone embrace or reject a particular culture the concept has ceased to be useful, for every culture contains both good and bad and any two intertwined cultures will contain significant overlap.