minorities are typically the bulk of the people you find in the ghetto.. they were obviously oppressed in the past and it made it harder for them to build good lives for themselves and the problem is that poverty breeds crime and crime breeds poverty so its a vicious cycle..
i think its easy for someone who grew up in a decent way to look at the ghetto and think its easy to put yourself through school and get yourself out.. but think how hard is not to do the dumb shit your friends do sometimes ... imagine that on a much larger scale and you can have some idea of how hard it would be to be the one kid who stays away from gangs, drugs, and crime to make a life for himself.
its sad really .. people in ghettos almost have no chance at a good life
i remember reading this thing a while back where the government tried placing people in very low income areas into nice affluent areas to see if living away from the bad influences made a difference and it did . the problem is people in those neighbourhoods didnt want them in their areas so the program eventually ended
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