That's just not true. There is a very small minority of people who are just too far gone. Yes they exist.
But the overwhelming majority of people in the "hood" want to become educated and prosperous just like everybody else. Their problem is, they just don't know how to do it. No leaders, no guidance.
Fukkin this
I grew up poor with my mom in a rundown trailer park with cop visits constantly due to drugs/guns/etc in our trailer park. I wasn't a goon, athletic or that smart. All I knew was that I wanted better for myself but I had no clue how. Luckily for me I had the forsight to actually set myself up to go to a decent middle and high school so I could figure it out. I stayed away from drugs and gangs. Not because I felt I was better than the people who did those things but I wanted to avoid the law since I knew how cops were with black people.
Those experiences gave me new perspective and my teachers were very encouraging role models. I didn't understand it all at the time going through but if it wasn't for those opportunities, I wouldn't be a black kid about to finish a STEM degree. I want to make sure I be a leader to the young kids struggling and to my family members.
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I actually did a week long service project during spring break in college and one of the areas I was helping was a children's afterschool center. The kids were running out angry, yelling and the leaders were running around angry and yelling. I was with a bunch of middle class CACs there as volunteers.(I was the only black guy in our group and there was 1 black girl with heavy republican leanings) They were all overwhelmed and confused because they never encountered anything like that before. The volunteers I was with was acting like they were afraid to talk to the kids and had this
face as soon as they walked in.
I had flashbacks to my childhood and they reminded me of myself growing up so I unphased. I went over to them, started chopping it up. They were clowning on me a bit, hitting me with the

face and pushing my buttons to "test" me but after they realized it didn't affect me and I wasn't like all of the other CACs who ran off after the first day out of fear they have volunteering usually at the center.(They had a problem with people quitting immediately after getting overwhelmed) I fitted in like a glove after the first half hour. I was talking with everyone, having a good time and after other volunteers got out of their uncomfortableness, they followed my lead until everyone was having a good time halfway throughout the week. I was helping students with homework, playing ball, had kids who were sworn enemies were acting like best friends. Even the meaner kids were smiling and having fun.
All these kids needed was leadership and someone willing to reach out while caring about them. The CACs I was with were all republican, middle class privileged college students who acted like it was the first time in their entire lives they seen more than 4 minorities in one room together before.
All I have to say is that the scared, middle class, CAC republican volunteers I was with are the EXACT same people who will get the positions of leadership in life as judges, doctors, CEOs, policemen, congressmen, etc and they sure as fukk won't be going out of their way to help these types of kids based on the type of stuff I saw was going on at the volunteer center with those kids. That's why its important for more black people to step up into professional careers, lead their communities and set an example past simply getting personally rich. Mimi Faust may be wealthy but that THOT ain't leading or inspiring SHYT except instagram hoes with more butt injections than common sense!
