[dfwgator]

I have some simple questions for any black person who feels they are a victim of racism.

What was your ambition in life? Did you even really even think about what you wanted to be, and what it would take to achieve it?

I still maintain the real gap is the “Ambition Gap”. What do people in the Hood aspire to be? Rappers? Drug Dealers? Basketball players?

[MarDav]

Well, the rappers and basketball players parts I can understand. That’s a result of our society’s warped values. We’ve elevated these aspirations to mythic heights. When you look at the value we place on those with a singing voice or some sort of physical prowess, why wouldn’t someone want to make these his/her ambition. The problem is that the real ambition is for personal wealth. This is the new ambition. Given that, you can see how even the drug-dealer option is based on achieving the same end.

None of these lofty goals require much character, though.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What do people in the Hood aspire to be? Rappers? Drug Dealers? Basketball players?

All of the above. And if they fail to achieve stardom and riches it's Whitey's fault.