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Old 08-07-2012, 12:14 PM
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Executive Order -- White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans | The White House

You really cannot just ignore all the history of the US in which blacks were discriminated against in many ways and before that held as slaves.

This could actually give hope to many people who are struggling in the poorer sections of our urban areas.
Is there a time limit that you might have in mind ? I agree with many of the steps taken to benefit and to try to level the playing field. However, seems to me after a few generations, perhaps we might consider again leveling the playing field !

I also would welcome and embrace programs that allow for getting a boost to make your own life better and we have them...un attended for the most part but we do have them !

PS...Sorry if this is considered not politically correct, but in my life I have spent much time as a coordinator for various groups that help african americans and hispanic groups....we dont have many unless you are either of those two...but my experience was, and this is over 25 years, not a positive one. We helped a lot, but the message being delivered in those groups is not one of having a helping hand extended....it is just a hand extended for the most part. That is not nice to say, but it is true, and in Pennsylvania had two troubled teens who lived nearby and had great difficulty finding programs similar to assist them and had the same experience with a son of a coworker. May sound jaded but I am talking REAL world and not the politically correct languagge