I understand what you're saying, yes. I like to think that a very large number of black people in this country are well educated, self-reliant people. But it's just that every time a black person commits a crime or it is pointed out the statistics of unwed births among black people, etc., etc., we hear how they have it so hard, that they don't have the opportunities. If that was really the case, a black man would NOT be president for God's sake. We would have NO black lawyers, doctors, policeman, mayors, dentists, teachers, professors, the list goes on and on. The best thing Obama could have said either during his compaign the first time or certainly in one his speeches was to tell the American people, black and white, to finish high school, that anybody can be anything they set their mind to, that he was an example. If he has ever said this, I have not heard it. I don't think he has. White people are screwups too, and don't graduate high school. There is just no excuse for it, not when it is free. There is absolutely no excude for an able-bodied person in their 20s to be a high school drop out, on drugs, just being a drain on society. I'm sorry,it's just not. I don't care what race you are. I have personally known mentally retarded people, blind people, quadriplegic people, deaf, mentally ill who have held jobs and were as self-sufficient as humanly possible, contributing more to society than able-bodied people. Looking to the government to fix you should be a last resort, not the first choice in your life.