I spend a lot of time looking in our ghettos. I do see gang culture and it effects all races not just blacks. I also see family's working their hardest to advance. Gang culture does shame education. Black culture does not. Those terms are not interchangeable.I got educated but i never tried to be like whitey. No one shamed me for getting educated. Now you will get teased for acting white but that has nothing to do with education. Please show me this culture you claim exists.What culture prohibits you from joining a program? I grew up in the Black culture and anytime a program was known there were Blacks that got into it.Poverty is usually not self inflicted... people don't choose to be born poor and in today's day and age it's nearly impossible to pull yourself out of poverty.
Poverty is most often self inflicted. When there are programs available to help and you don't participate because your culture prohibits it, or you get pregnant at age 15 and have 3 or 4 kids before you are even old enough to drink.
Really?
The same culture that shames other blacks for getting educated and trying to be like whitey.
Go look in the ghettos.