[latina4dubya]

What really hit me in this essay is that there are no differentiating groups within the black teen population... not like with whites: nerds, preppies, rockers, jocks, stoners...

[hinckley buzzard]

This is the poison fruit of identity politics. There is no attribute of importance but race. This has been inculcated into so many blacks so effectively that they have no self-awareness left worth speaking about.

For the sake of political and financial gain the left wing has stripped these people literally of their humanity. And they don't even know what they have lost.

[Secret Agent Man]

the exceptions are the few that study, they are the oreos, the uncle toms - considred that way by all the rest of the blacks that believe doing well in school is ‘acting white’.

[Revolting cat!]

What really hit me in this essay is that there are no differentiating groups within the black teen population

Actually, there two groups. The bigger group, with members as those described above, and a smaller group of teens who wish to accomplish something in life, and are usually ostracized by the bigger group. Occasionally, there'll be a politically incorrect article in a local newspaper describing the struggles of the students in that ostracized group.