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To: DUMBGRUNT
0bama's children, doing what is their nature.

Not nature, but nurture. Otherwise there would be no explanation for a Thomas Sowell, a Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a Justice Thomas or a Sheriff Clarke.

Some individuals of any color or background can overcome a bad start and thrive; many can not.

5 posted on 02/16/2017 7:47:53 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

People are naturally bad. It is the default situation.

It takes nurture, culture, and faith to produce a Sowell, Sheriff Clarke, or Janice Rigers Brown.

It takes nurture, culture and faith to produce a Trump, Scalia, or Justice Thomas, as well.


11 posted on 02/16/2017 7:55:54 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: JimRed

> Not nature, but nurture. Otherwise there would be no explanation for a Thomas Sowell, a Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a Justice Thomas or a Sheriff Clarke. <

Very well said! And that’s a lesson one could take from the book ‘Lord of the Flies.’ You are shaped by your environment.


19 posted on 02/16/2017 8:04:22 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: JimRed

People aren’t all the same. And that includes groups of people like African Americans or Caucasians. We are all different from the very beginning and this is the problem. Economics is not the answer to everything. Some people will not respond to a great upbringing with all the advantages. And some people will thrive with an upbringing that appears to have the world stacked against them.

Nurture vs. Nature weighs heavily in favor of Nature. Its hard for someone who can’t sit in a classroom, does not have the intelligence to write or pass a test, to fill out forms. So these people won’t get jobs. They won’t get insurance. They won’t own a car and many won’t get a drivers license. They have all the wants and desires for stuff, food, sex as everyone else. But they have little legal means to get it. They hang at their girlfriends, mothers, sisters place. And they are bored.

We have three large groups of these people. Many are black males. Some are white (really more are white in actual size but by percentage its far fewer). Some have some form of depression. Some just don’t have the mental capacity to live in society (or stay living in society), and the last group of people are addicts of one form or another. Its really that last one that you could say is Nurture. The other two are Natures problem.


26 posted on 02/16/2017 8:21:10 AM PST by poinq
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To: JimRed

Nature / Nurture ?
Innate, I do not know.

But I do believe, that much of the worst is continuously reinforced by Hollywood, tv, the internet, radio...
No actual reading comprehension required.

When that is the main source of information, it becomes their reality. Yes they live in a ‘separate reality’.
Where going to jail is a badge to be proudly worn.

All too soon it will be prison tats, signifying murder.

All celebrated on screen and in song.


33 posted on 02/16/2017 8:47:01 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: JimRed

Well said!


44 posted on 02/16/2017 11:03:24 AM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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