Yes, the only reason people are ´poor´ is simply because they don´t have enough money!
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By Kindergarten? The liberal culture of victimhood and hoplessness how now permeated to 5 year olds. We need a gov´t program to fix this...

In addition to the poster´s comment are the NEA dumbing down education, blacks failure to support school vouchers, and the Gov´t imposing Gov´t dependency on blacks.

I went to school with a young man from California. He was interested in science and had gone with his high school science teacher to disassemble an old missile silo to build a physics lab. MIT wasn´t challenging enough so he applied to Cal Tech for a physics doctorate after 1 year. Only difference I can see is the individual desire to learn. Maybe if CA focused on potential and opportunity, and less categorization, they achieve better results.

It´s Bush´s fault.

Probably even ahead of having an involved parent (or heaven forbid - parentS) on the list of things they can do to improve their future would be to go out of their way and make friends with the "smart" Asian and white kids in school and in their neighborhoods. Not some superficial leeching arrangement, but true friendship. Why doesn´t some enterprising PhD candidate look at this factor? Second would be to be, as Harry Reid and Joey Biden said, "clean and articulate".

Yes, lil teleprompter will have leeched all the money out of working folks before they come of age. Pretty bleak.

As well they should see a bleak future -- all around, not just at school. The destruction of black independence by the Democrats has been in place for a long time. It´s pretty much an entrenched situation with people not only feeling no shame for being on public assistance, but being proud of it.

They fail from birth because they are taught not to emulate Whitey. We have spent tens of trillions on blacks and other minorities since LBJ´s "Great Society" which has done nothing to improve the mind set of black-Americans, of course there are successes but not enough to change their society. Booze, bullets, drugs, girls and government handouts are their life style. We have 3rd and 4th generation blacks on the dole, which apparently keeps them happy.

I was under the impression that the reason they failed was peer pressure. That doing well in school was "acting white" and looked down upon.

The bigotry of low expectations.

Let´s see - compare black children who grow up in stable 2-parent homes and attend church with those from unstable, single-parent homes whose religion is liberalism. On average you´ll see a huge difference, but over- educated PhD´s can´t figure it out.

When will they realize that they are the victims of liberal politics as surely as their forebearers were of the slave owners. They are kept unfree and illiterate by the almost complete control of their lives by the man.

This has been going on for over a half century and still they refuse to admit the real problem! clue: its not white racism.

What a bunch of crap! They are talking about health insurance and unhealthy food?

How about putting pressure on men, especially black men, to be good fathers to their sons.

California is surely the worst governed state. Illinois is right behind. Get out while you can. The idiots run the asylum.

Yes......"in part by poverty and trauma," And in part by black racism and politics.

Mae West: "I´ve been rich and I´ve been poor and rich is better."

Maybe it´s past time for the first Black President to oversee a true personal growth and family resurgence in the Black Community and stop playing the race card and trashing everyone he hates!

Obama is totally squandering his advantage and opportunity to actually help a large group of people by totally focusing on his false sense of getting ´revenge´ on those he perceives are the problem.

With all due respect Mr. Obama, these opportunities are squandered by Black Leadership because they need sheep to vote for them. Wake up, your opportunity is staring you in the face and you choose to ignore it!

So the same legislators who win office by telling black people that the white man is the all-powerful devil who will keep them down no matter what they do now wants to study why black children feel hopeless about education and opportunity.

Re elect dems. That´ll fix it.

Black children can now grow into black adults without ever knowing anyone who has ever held a job. Think about that, not just dependance of a few, not a single family member or even casual aquantance who has EVER held a job.

And you wonder why the black community is devolving right before our eyes? Add to that the recism inherant in maintaining their victim status and the ever present flash and bling of the corner drug dealing crowd and yyou wonder why an $8 an hour starting position at Walmart looks like slavery to them? When an illiterate sociopathic thug can rape every girl at whim, when he flashes hundred dollar bills like they are toilet tissue, when they pay a 10 year old $100 a day to run drugs from the stash house to the corners. You wonder why inner city kids are increasingly violent, illiterate and volatile.

PhD my patuckis, you are not educated, you are blind.

The problem with black-America is black-America.

No one cares about black people as a minority in CA anymore - it´s all about hispanics because they have the most affect on the economy.

Black pop culture simply will not tolerate literate, educated, law-abiding black men.

What do you call a black man with a degree in physics?

"Sellout."

Obviously that is what they want. If they didn´t they would dosomehting about it, instead they double down with the liar in chief.

Like father ....

I have an idea.

How about replacing big daddy government with actual FATHERS married to the mothers of all their babies, going to work and working everyday and thus investing in the futures of their family and children in a tangible, constructive, and profitable way?

The combination of lower than average mean IQ, family and social pathology, negative expectations and predatory politics does seem to doom many of these children to lives that are nasty, brutish and often short, almost before they get started. Political correctness and racial demagoguery make it next to impossible to discuss and address these problems effectively. Pathetic "programs" like Black Manhood and the ridiculous practice of parsing history for examples of individuals with black skin color who have (nevertheless!) amounted to something are close to criminal in their stupidity and ineffectiveness.

Stern measures are called for. The equivalent of "reform schools" should be established and all students and their families of all colors
informed at the start of each school year that skipping school, disrespecting teachers, causing problems on campus, foul language, fights and refusal to learn would result in immediate mandatory transfer to such highly regimented and supervised institutions where the students would live as well as study. Parents who refused to cooperate would be arrested and sent to prison for child neglect or the children would be removed from their custody and made wards of the state. Measures such as these, which of course will never even be proposed, much less enacted, would solve the problems to the degree that they are soluble. They will never, ever happen. Instead we will be subjected to more guilt trips, complaints, demands for more taxpayer revenue for preposterous and counter-productive programs, more Leftist materialist social engineering schemes, etc etc etc.

Children can and should be raised correctly. If the parents are unable or unwilling to do the job, the state has a responsibility to the children as well as to itself to intervene to see that proper values are taught and adequate education is acquired.

Trapped between "acting white" and "acting black."
What to do?

By kindergarten, I knew I was going to be too tall and gawky to be a professional football player.

The Bell Curve is true, and no money can change genetics.

"How about putting pressure on men, especially black men, to be good fathers to their sons."

These women aren´t interested in the sperm donating men any more than they are about the children once they get beyond early childhood and get shuffled off to big mama. These children serve several purposes, from social trophies and "baby doll" playthings, to the sources of increased income, especially once they hit the SSI "crazy money" jackpot. None of the above requires an education.

Note to Hispanic voters: What Democrats did to/for the black family, they will do to/for yours. Just give them time and keep voting them in.

But the blame will never be placed where it rightly belongs.......modern liberalism. Liberalism broke down the black family thru the entitlement culture that encouraged single mother families. Liberalism gave blacks excuses for doing substandard work. Liberalism gave blacks their affirmative action. Liberal Democrats sacrificed blacks for political gain. It´s as simple as that. But the black voters just keep coming back for more. So let them finally sleep in the bed they made for themselves. I don´t have time for them anymore. To hell with them.

FTA "For example, the district has an Office of African-American Male Achievement, which supports manhood development classes at middle and high schools"

Hey here´s an idea....how about these kids learn manhood from dads that stay around and raise them? Instead of the government?

I read the article, and didn´t see one mention of 70% of black kids growing up fatherless.

I´m always amused by the contrasting TV portrayal of black men. The Lordly, Saintly, Cool, All-wise, humbly masculine but gentle black man in ALL the letter network shows and ALL the TV ads and their alter-egos in the reality crime shows like 48 Hours.

One of our greatest sacred cows.

The problem with black-America is democRat pandering; promoting victimhood and cultivating dependency for votes. It´s been a democRat tradition for over 45 years!

Children of married black couples have the same poverty rate of children of married white couples - less than 5%. But we can´t talk about that.

And black girls who have their fathers around are so much less likely to have a child out of wedlock. But we can´t talk about that.

And black boys who have their fathers around are so much less likely to end up in prison. But we can´t talk about that.

Obama will get revenge, but maybe you should ask Mom why she´s 15 and knocked up. Dummies.

At the age of 3, we have provided Head Start, at age 5 public school and still they fail.
They grow up like wolf cubs, no nurturing, no books in the home, no parent reading to them, no one teaching them the alphabet.
All that´s left is to remove them and put them in group homes where they would have a better chance at a life. If the mother is under 18, and there is no father in the home, remove the child. It would probably cost less in the long run.

Seems the answer would be to get the hell out of California. Parents of kids who have a high chance of failure in such an environment should get them the hell out of there.

Clearly we all have a direct interest in educating our children so that they can become productive members of society. But where is the responsibility of the families in which these children live?

It makes no sense whatsoever that a little boy in kindergarten would believe he is going to be a failure? How could he even have a concept of what a failure or success is? This is nuts.

It appears that Head Start is a complete waste of time and only a babysitting program. One can assume that most of these children of color begin Head Start at age three. So they come the first day, not having been read to or taught shapes or colors.

Perhaps we need to put these children in classes with four or five to a class, and require x number of hours of their parents time in helping to teach them.

If this is the case in the great and glorious California, what is it like in the despised red southern states?

Don´t call them "boys"! Raaaaaacissssst!

#2- A liberal family therapist/ social worker who was once my coworker announced at a staff meeting one day that "racism hurts babies in the womb." (This is technically true since racist planned parenthood targets black babies for abortion... but that´s not what she meant, of course.) She actually said black babies are born victims. I am not kidding. She cited some study that said black women who are pregnant and feel they are being treated unfairly because they are black, have increased stress hormones which in turn increase some sort of stress hormone in the unborn baby. You can´t make this stuff up...

Posted from my iPhone, please pardon any typos.

Perhaps rather than teaching them to color in the lines we should be instructing them on how to hike their freaking pants up and learning to like some other music other than that gangster rap crap...oh but I digress

And the answer is to tax white married couples. s/o

I´m with #12.

My money´s on culture, two key elements of which are work, and family structure. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance ----an historic upsurge in African-American creativity in the arts, music, drama, literature, scholarship and civic leadership --- 90% of the black children in Harlem lived in intact-- married-- mother´n´father households.

And now?

You don´t know whether to weep, or to smash something.

FTA: The findings were drawn from several community hearings, expert testimony and the input of hundreds of other stakeholders over 18 months.

Whew, glad they did not ask for expert testimony and input from those younger than 18 months.