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I think this whole thing is being blown out of proportion. It was one little line that Steele said, we probably wont hear anything else about it.
I highly doubt this. I'm betting they will try it, just like they did with their conventions in the past, making them very party like with "cool" performers.
What will be interesting to see is how the hard liners who harbor stereotypes about the culture will take to this new way of delivereing the message.
Ok. So you did it. I did it. Almost all of my friends did it.
So why does he need to do something about it (the tuition part)?
That's an issue for them because a lot of them want to get an education to get a better job, but it's getting more and more expensive to go to college.
Actually, what is truly sad is that such trivial and nonsensical things actually do influence black youth.
Agreed.
I hate that as a black female I sometimes have to work so much harder just to prove I'm not like my "peers." It is true that black females tend to graduate college at a higher rate than black males but where I live...I am the rarity: 18 year old black female that DOES NOT have a baby and is enrolled in college (and actually making good grades and KNOWS what she wants to do after graduating from college).
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Originally Posted by mackinac81
Agreed. I don't like Hip Hop culture at all. I wish more black youth would look to Cosby, Oprah and the Obamas for their role models. I hope they do.
Even if black youth don't have role models, I'd just like for them to think, "How will I be remembered if I died yesterday? Will the majority of things people say about me be good or bad?" I wouldn't have any worries if I died tomorrow because those who know me in real life would have such nice things to say. I can't say that about some of my peers.
A lot of the problems in the black community tend to boil down to socioeconomic factors but that's a totally different thread. There are whites who are rich but still drop out of high school and become bums just like there are poor blacks who graduate from Harvard.
Wow...arent you just the little tolerant lib. No....you would never generalize a group of people while in the same post try to attack the GOP for generalizing a group of people. I mean, that would be a very uneducated thing to do, right?
Usually this would be a valid point, but once Palin was a known quantity her primary supporters were
1. rural / exurban
2. high school educated or less
3. white female.
I never implied there's anything wrong with being any of those.
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