Chicago is another place our president would rather not have us think about. The thing is, the politicians don't know what to do about this either, except for maybe blaming white people. Nobody seems to realize, it isn't just white people who fled places like HH and downtown Detroit. I grew up with plenty of black schoolmates, none of us were particularly 'advantaged' or 'disadvantaged'. Quite a number of my 'minority' classmates went on to surpass me educationally and professionally. They don't live here anymore. The streets of Hamilton Hill did not possess the power to doom children to a life of failure, dependency, and violence. Now we have quite a number of people who happen to be living here, but they were not originally from here, they were from places that were better off without them. Yet we constantly see this city and our schools blamed, often by the very people who are supposed to be looking out for our interests. |