‘Reparations Happy Hour’ Invites White People to Pay for Drinks

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  1. crank

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    If a poor kid from the hood DOES have enormous potential (to learn, for example), his/her parents could build on that by supporting their child's education out of poverty. Are you saying that hood parents are ignoring potential in their kids? Are you saying they basically give up? "I'm not Will Smith, so there's no point"?
     
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    Not that I know of. Folks from India are generally classified as "brown" Native American Indians "Red" !!
     
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    I just gave an superb example how it works out for the kid of Will Smith where others don't even get a change to get that opportunity.
     
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    None the less, the superior school will give that kid a better education than an other.
     
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    Uh no. That list is how it is. And it's not the way you claim it is.
     
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    But you didn't answer my question. Are you saying that hood parents are ignoring potential in their kids? Are you saying they basically give up? "I'm not Will Smith, so there's no point"?
     
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    No, it will not. It will almost entirely on the parents' commitment to their child's education. Even the worst of your public schools will still produce a valedictorian, and even the best of your private schools will produce failures. Do you think that happens by magic, or dumb luck?
     
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    That list has nothing to do with national statistics.
     
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    It shows who is on top. Not seeing asians.
     
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    I am saying that others are saying this. I didn't bring this up.
     
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    Ok, you have no idea what statistics are. I can see that now.
     
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    You have repeatedly suggested that unless you're born into money, you have no hope. Which is, frankly, ridiculous.
     
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    It shows the top. And you made a claim about the top.
     
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    I never said that. I am saying that there is no equal playing field. And the rich got it far easier. And that is the reason why the black who got pushed into poverty during the apartheid era, mostly still live on that social economic ladder. While gimps here think it's their preferred choice of living.
     
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    it works out that there are seemingly none in the TOP... and you claimed they are predominantly there.
     
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    NOWHERE did I say that your richest 400 are Asian/Indian.

    I said statistically, Asian and Indian Americans are ahead of whites in income and education.
     
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    But there IS an equal playing field. All of us have exactly the same access to public schools, public libraries, and (in many places) public healthcare. We also all have the same freedom to decide that we will not allow the errors of the past to decide our childrens' futures. We all have the same freedom to make our childrens' education our priority, so that they leave can poverty behind. We all have the same freedom to instill the ethics of hard work, clean living, decency, and gracious manners into our kids .. understanding that such qualities almost always lead to a much more stable and good life.

    Look, I understand better than some here that it was bad last century - and still is in some places, but I also understand that ain't nobody got time for that. Our kids need us to step up today, not wait until someone builds us a step.
     
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    And I proved you wrong.
     
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    It's not equal since better private schools are hard to get in, when poor.
    And you're just dishonest by deliberately omitting this.
     
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