re: #272 austin_blue

It helps to be born *really fucking smart*. It helps to have a decent education. It helps to have a supportive community.

This isn’t a black problem. It’s a *poor* problem in poor communities. Appalachia isn’t that different from Harlem in this.

Poor begets poor.

I’m not implying it’s a black problem. Bill Cosby just stands out in my mind as a successful man from a poor background.

The poverty you speak of is a poverty of culture, not money.

I know people who make good money and are successful from pretty poor (money wise) backgrounds which were rich with encouragement and family.

You can overcome poverty of money. The other type is much harder.