[ottbmare]

There are an awful lot of blacks who wouldn’t agree with you. They’re going to college and studying things that will get them good jobs. Of course in the ghetto there are kids who aspire to be rappers, and certainly ten-year-olds in every social class think they can be sports stars.

But here’s something that white people often forget: the majority of blacks in this country are middle-class, are employed, are sending their kids to college, and have the same aspirations whites do.

I live in the suburbs of DC. Sure, there are dysfunctional impoverished criminal and/or drug-addled blacks in bad neighborhoods here, but there are also huge areas filled with prosperous middle-class black business people and professionals or those working hard to get into those positions. Some of these successful blacks have been my employers or managers.

One difference I’ve observed that this article also notes: more successful blacks will buy a nice car rather than driving a piece of junk and putting the money toward a nicer house. The blacks in my community drive way nicer cars than I do.

[Mr. K]

"But here’s something that white people often forget: the majority of blacks in this country are middle-class, are employed, are sending their kids to college, and have the same aspirations whites do. "

huh???

not according to what I have seen and Welfare statistics. 50% of all younger black males have been to prison, not to college. That's not a good aspiration.

[hinckley buzzard]

The blacks in my community drive way nicer cars than I do.

Nobody needs a Mercedes or a Jaguar. That is an example of a stupid money decision by someone who should be trying to elevate his game.