I got out of the electrical trade in 1993 and taug

I got out of the electrical trade in 1993 and taught band in an inner city "Performing Arts" school in my area.
Principal couldn't pronounce my last name.
I had three 5th grade drummers that had been arrested over 20 times each for breaking into cars. The administration was petrified of these kids.
I had 83 kids in my marching band, one female, the rest males.
By Christmas I had them going down the road like soldiers.
Kids came to school hungry, ate breakfast, lunch and dinner there.
I was there 12 hours a day.
I made the same money as a second year electrical apprentice.
My estimate that almost 50% of my band was related to one another in some way. Their families never left the "Hood".
The kids would rag on me for two things....the black Nike tennis shoes I wore every day, and the rims on my El Camino......
There's a cultural shift that needs to happen. Not only in education.
I have slept in the bushes as a kid. It was safer than being inside my home.
At one point, I slept with a loaded shot gun on a rack just over my pillow, to protect me from the people "inside" my house.
I too don't look at it in colors. Skin pigmentation.
Listen to Charles Barkley.....he would speak at mostly "white" schools and ask the kids what they wanted to be.....doctors, lawyers (God forbid)programmers, firemen, cops, teachers etc...
At the mostly black schools....rappers, professional basketball players, etc.
The Welfare State helped to advance this culture IMHO.
In the 20's,30's,40's 50's black families were intact.
Anyway, I'm with Justalong.
Only the black community can run the race card non stop and get away with it.
Hispanics, Asians, even our Carribean brothers don't play that.
Come down here and check how fast the Jamacians and Haitians that immigrate here get to work and succeed.
One more thing...I'm not inherently racist because I'm white.
That's all.
Go Doc.