Reply #15: I cannot believe anyone wrote this... [View All]

...and for the record, I am a white woman. Have you ever been to the inner cities? The jobs left over twenty years ago. There is nothing there but for people to "work" at. There are no jobs. Stay in school? Visit some of the schools. When there are no jobs you have to live on welfare. And you can't eat through the month on welfare. Oh, and if you manage to get out, to come to a place in upstate NY, for instance, listen to people talk about how you are bringing the "criminal element" into their fair city. "They need to help themselves first before they look for government solutions." You need at least two sticks and some fuel to build a fire. Your post ignores the entire history of the last thirty years, not to mention institutional racism which I won't even try to go into.