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well first off the change has to start within the communities. We have a mentality being propigated through the generations that it is cool to be stupid, it is cool to be waistfull, it is cool to be a gang banger. This is not acceptable, listen to any rap music and see what they are glorifying in those songs. "Where your treasure is, there to your heart will be". These people treasure the wrong values. I admire people like Bill Cosby who are standing up to a large group that is keeping the minorties down.... themselfs. I'm not saying that "white" people don't help keep them down but what I am saying is we are doing nothing to stop the minorities from keeping themselfs down.
We need to change their perspective, through education when they are young and most impressionable. We cannot simply give them a crutch and say walk with it. No we need to refuse to give them that crutch and get them to stand themselfs up. You can't help someone that doesn't want help.
If you want to know where I think the money we throw at AA should be placed I think it needs to be placed in the inner city schools and in programs directed at both parents and childern. We need to stop glorifying gang banging, violence, and drug abuse. We need to protect the childern.
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