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The Urban League also recommended increased federal support for a summer jobs program in cities nationwide, and stressed that any overall progress will need a boost from parents.
"They must continually talk to their children about how much better off they will be by graduating from high school and college," it said.

Well we knew they'd be calling for more federal funding for something! The comment about parents, however, is a good thing. Now if they can only work on the much too high levels of unmarried women having babies, and encouraging young men to WORK instead of trying to all be gansgsta rappers or pro-athletes.

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The Urban League also recommended increased federal support for a summer jobs program in cities nationwide, and stressed that any overall progress will need a boost from parents.
"They must continually talk to their children about how much better off they will be by graduating from high school and college," it said.

Well we knew they'd be calling for more federal funding for something! The comment about parents, however, is a good thing. Now if they can only work on the much too high levels of unmarried women having babies, and encouraging young men to WORK instead of trying to all be gansgsta rappers or pro-athletes.

Of course that would all be wonderful, but I have not been given much reason to be optimistic, based upon past performance.  Such a route would solve most all problems among American blacks but it would involve personal responsibility and admitting that white people and 'racism' is not the entire cause of the troubles that blacks are facing.  There is way too much money and power involved in maintaining the status quo of endless interracial infighting and guilt-tripping with "more money" cited as being the only 'solution'.

Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Maxine Waters don't want to have to start shopping at Wal-Mart with the rest of us....they prefer being on the receiving end of the race-baiting gravy train, unfortunately.

And in the meantime, millions upon millions of people will be prevented from having their full potentials realized.

A terrible shame and a hideous waste.  How many Einsteins, Kants or Vivaldis have we lost to the urban / ghetto brain-destroyers?

The Urban League also recommended increased federal support for a summer jobs program in cities nationwide, and stressed that any overall progress will need a boost from parents.
"They must continually talk to their children about how much better off they will be by graduating from high school and college," it said.

Well we knew they'd be calling for more federal funding for something! The comment about parents, however, is a good thing. Now if they can only work on the much too high levels of unmarried women having babies, and encouraging young men to WORK instead of trying to all be gansgsta rappers or pro-athletes.