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glitchinthematrix · 4155 days ago · link · · parent · post: Paul Solman: Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
You're right in the sense that the educational and economic system is failing blacks an minorities. Watching The Wire, you see a perfect example of people who are born into violence and drugs and generally a life of welfare where they see rampant police abuse and hopelessness. When you are born into this system, it's really hard to imagine any other life. Dropping out of school for many of the teens born in ghettos is only another part of life.