Posted on 10/17/2009 4:19:27 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
DETROIT Like the rundown houses and shuttered storefronts in his Detroit neighborhood, bleakness abounds in LeRoy Taylor's future.
He is among tens of thousands reaching adulthood in a city where the American Dream appears just outside their reach. Taylor, 20, spends empty hours on basketball courts, zoned out in front of a television or aimlessly pedaling through streets he desperately wants to leave, but doesn't have the work skills, education or money to do so.
"I fill out applications. No one will call me back," said Taylor, stopping his bike long enough to hustle change for cigarettes near a west side bus stop. "It's useless. It's real scary."
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Detroit high school students historically have done poorly on standardized tests. For example, 32 percent of 11th graders met or exceeded reading standards and only 14 percent did the same in math on the 2007 Michigan Merit Examination. Statewide averages were 60 percent in reading and 47 percent in math.
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Tina Evans, 19, said she has submitted about 25 applications, mostly for minimum-wage work. While she waits, Evans pushes her 4-month-old daughter around the neighborhood in a stroller.
"There is nothing else to do. Nothing is out here," said Evans, who lives with her mother. She said she was kicked out of Detroit schools for fighting.
Taylor who said he's been jobless "my whole life" dropped out of Cooley High School when he was 16 due to "lack of wanting to go to school," he said. If only he could get out of the city, he said, he could be accomplishing something.
He and his 4-year-old daughter live with his mother, who reminds him constantly that he still needs to get his diploma.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Zero sympathy for those that refuse to help themselves and or demand others do for them !
Michigan is in for a massive era of hurt unlike they have ever seen. No pun intended but Detroit is a black hole that is sucking the states resources and good communities dry !
If the goobermint wants to do anything for that town it would scrape off the urban wasteland of abandoned structures and old factories and grow crops ! Turn the abandoned parts of that ville into a DOD USAF civil engineer’s, Navy Seabee’s and Army corp of engineer’s training ground with FEMA as to how to recover a city after it’s been nuked !
Nuked in this case being .....conventional destruction by society.
Just my opinion and how I would fix it if I had the keys for a day.
Tanjanickia Childs? Who the hell thinks that’s a proper name for a child?
News for you. The Army no longer takes dropouts. Even High school diplomas are considered highly suspicious from turd world cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Gary.
It takes brains to be a soldier, no need for these sh*tbirds.
Tanjanickia Childs? Who the hell thinks thats a proper name for a child?
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Well ,, it’s better than LaStankqua Jones.
Anyone with any sense is trying to get out of CA.
We are now in the death throes of FDR's New Deal socialism. We are up to our neck in problems brought on by LBJ's Great Society socialism. BHO's Hope and Change socialism will end things.
Wonder if this kid has even tried looking at the military?
“Tanjanickia Childs? Who the hell thinks thats a proper name for a child?”
An illiterate idiot from Detroit?
I so agree....
Here is the REAL TRAGEDY....The Republicans or any conservatives can NOT get the message across to them about the Progressive Plantation!
Pitiful, just piticul that we can not get this message across...NO excuses, conservatives just can’t get the message across.
Don’t most community colleges have open admissions? Couldn’t these people go back to school for some kind of training (we’ll forget about a degree for right now)? X-ray tech, dental hygienist, diesel mechanic, practical nurse? All these are jobs that can’t be outsourced, that pay decently and would let the person live almost anywhere in the country - they could leave Detroit if that’s what they really want. And, there are grants for the really poor. They don’t even have to get student loans.
It would seem that after putting in application after application, after realizing that they have no skills and need to bring something to the marketplace, that these people would try.something.different.
But that takes thought...
Last I checked, the Army is hiring.
There are people sneaking across the border to do the work these inner city leeches refuse to do!
Hard to do but .......if they have no desire to improve their lot in life.
(((If you guessed “leftist/Marxists”, move to the head of the class)))
You know what? I was a poor white trash punk from North Philly...and I worked at EVERY lousy job I could find, put myself through trade schools, got better jobs, went to night college.
If a bonehead like me can do it, anyone can.
No sympathy from me for useless losers that parasite off the backs and labor of better folks.
Pretty harsh? Maybe - But I don’t give a rat’s tuckus. I’m not one to pull punches. They should quit whining, Cowboy the hell up, and make something better of their lives. As a matter of fact, them being “oppressed minorities” and all - they have MORE opportunity from Uncle Sugar than I could ever DREAM of getting (and didn’t - I did it on my own)- and still don’t get it.
This IS America after all...and it STILL is the land of opportunity - IF you want it.
Just a bunch of punks on the sugar tit wanting more......Obama will fess up more wasted resources vs teaching em to fish !!
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