[Lizavetta]

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what is keeping them from working and saving to pay for community college, which is dirt cheap, that will allow them to transfer into a four-year college. If they can't afford it there are scads of financial loan programs.

Who is keeping them out of the libraries, the tutoring centers, the trade schools, the employment opportunities that allow them to earn and save AS OTHER PEOPLE DO to move them ahead in life?

And don't get me started on all the affirmative action goodies that they can avail themselves of.

It is ludicrous to say that racism is holding anyone back. Not today, in 2007.

[RockinRight]

Exactly. I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, because I’ve seen it happen, but you can work around it.

Not every white person is racist. In fact, I’d bet a lower percentage of whites are racist than blacks from what I’ve seen.

[doc1019]

I went to collage without any financial help. My parents did help me with my books in my freshmen year and that is all they could do. I worked two (and sometimes three) jobs. I had a full schedule and still managed to graduate in the upper percentile of my class.

I drove a cab in the evening, cleaned office buildings late at night and was a bouncer in a local college bar on weekends.

Don’t tell me you can’t do it!!! BS.

[boop]

"It is ludicrous to say that racism is holding anyone back. Not today, in 2007."

Jesse Jackson would probably say that racism prevented the Jena 6 from actually beating the white kid to death.