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Originally Posted by chicubs111
With that said it all comes down in the end to the individual and there family structure that lays the ground work for there future...you either stay in school and get your education or drop out and join a gang where you will rob, kill and continue the cycle. This is a black community issue that can only be solved by the black community themselves. They have to wake up and see the light.
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This line of thinking essentially hand-waves the very institutional factors others in this thread have brought up. Things like redlining and the GI Bill are very real historical factors. Current issues like lead pipes and the war on drugs make it much more complex than "it comes down to the individual". These are real factors that are often out of the hands of the individual.