Technology Can Bring Money To Inner Cities

Townhall.com ^ | October 13, 2015 | Harry R. Jackson, Jr

[driftless2]

Nothing stops children of whatever color or part of the country now from acquiring computers. The article states that almost 75% of black kids have access to computers.

Then how are those kids doing in school? By this writer's logic, if having knowledge of a computer means success, why aren't those kids successful in school and then at work?

Black kids lag far behind white and Asian kids. It's not the digital divide that's keeping them behind.

[driftless2]

What they need is a change of attitudes.

Attitude might be the single greatest attribute that anyone can have. Obviously, innate intelligence matters greatly.

But if a person has a great attitude, even with average or little below average intelligence, that person can succeed. However, if a person has a shi**y attitude, not even great intelligence will make that person successful.

[momincombatboots]

the gulf between those who are comfortable using computers and those who are not is often called the “digital divide.” According to Child Trends, 93 percent of Asian and 91 percent of white children have computers in their homes, compared to only 74 of black children and 69 percent of white children...
Is it 91 or 69 percent of white children.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Lyndon Baines Johnson: "The Great Society."

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

We have known since 1776 that “society” is not a synonym but a euphemism for “government.”

It follows that a politician running for the position of head of government has no business boasting of the ability to produce a “great" "society.” America shoulda known:

Losing Ground:

American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Charles Murray

[Graybeard58]

I read that 3 or 4 times and it still didn’t make sense, so I gave up.

[MeshugeMikey]

Yes, Government governs

Society at its best Creates...and at its worst destroys!

the government that governs least...governs BEST!

[cloudmountain]

Paine had is right, of course.