Originally Posted by mhall
mhall,
I don't remember anyone saying you and yours were to blame for anything, so I'm not sure why you're so loudly proclaiming your innocence. Are you trying to say that because you're not a racist, racism doesn't exist in this country? If that's the case, we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
I think we agree on more than you think, though.
If you read my post to mean we should absolve anyone of their personal responsibility, you need to read it again. There is a big difference between understanding what got us to this point and absolving people of their responsibility to be productive members of society. Government has always been involved in social engineering, and LBJ's Great Society had noble goals but ended up rewarding poor citizenship and bad family practices.
All I said was there are factors--like discrimination and the government's welfare state--that have contributed to the situation we have now. It's those who don't understand *that* who have their heads in the sand. The only way to solve a problem is to understand the factors that caused it.
The biggest problem is the breakdown of the family. That's where it all starts.
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