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Originally Posted by graciegirl
We only know how to be us. We are proud of matters like this where we as a group; seniors, Wasps, AAP's,(Afican American Protestants) Americans, Midwesterners, mountain people, coastal people, people who pay taxes, people who work, WE were taught these principles. That is what is different in many cases. We now have a new group of urban poor; new immigrants and many if not most have strong family values. I bet those new urban poor will work themselves up to rich in a generation or two because they are not too proud to work and to keep their temper... and then they can be maligned for doing so. That is how this conversation feels to me. ANYONE CAN LEARN SELF CONTROL. It has nothing to do with race.
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I agree absolutely to your last few sentences. I apparently am not making myself clear. My objection is to the broad generalization that all white people, even of our age, were raised the right way. Many if not most may well have been, but many were not. Some who were not rose above it, while some unfortunately did not. I remember in the sixties how blacks, as well as whites who joined their cause, were treated and murdered in the Deep South by many in the white majority.