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Troy - You should be proud not every parent can say that their children are function much less proficient. Congratulations.

Before I moved in with my daughter in the adjoining town, the house where I previously lived was right in the path of the daily afternoon exodus of kids from the nearby high school, which was about 75 percent Black and 25 Hispanic. Whenever I sat on my porch and watched this homeward bound, rag-tag parade of scruffy, loud, unruly students, my impression was that these kids came in all shapes and sizes. Just as many were tall and skinny as average. Only a few were actually obese. The basketball team which is the main source of pride for this school is, of course, made up of lean, lanky giants. A true conspiracy was exposed when the tobacco companies were outed for increasing the nicotine content in cigarettes in order to addict smokers, a large number of which are concentrated in the black urban areas. There were also claims of there being an overload of billboards glamorizing alcohol consumption in the inner cities. Maybe there is, indeed, a plan afoot to gradually put these poor denizens of the ghetto out of their misery by making hazards to their health habitual. But weight-conscious young white kids, girls in particular, also pay for their obsession with being thin. They either become the victims of eating disorders or the objects of ridicule and bullying for not fitting the desired image. White teen-agers are also more into recreational drugs than their black peer group. America is so screwed up on so many levels. Rome wasn't built in a day, or did it fall in a day. The decline was gradual, appearing right before the eyes of its citizens who had become so inured in the decadence that they didn't realize the empire was on a collision course with ruination. In the political arena, the crazed Republicans, aided and abetted by the dazed Democrats, are leading the nation down the path to doom. The "United" States will become a misnomer, and America, rutted by the schism of race, will implode. I'm weary. I don't really care if these predictions come true or not...

You have reason to be a proud father, - unlike Will Smith.

Troy Lol, you're disputing me while supporting my point at the same time. It's like that scene in Saving Private Ryan: "Are you Private James Francis Ryan?" "No, no, no.....I'm James FRANCIS Ryan!!" You're arguing against conspiracies and people spraying chemicals in the hood to affect Black people, yet at the same time agreeing that our youth are more obese and that chemicals in the environment (of which the food supply is just one branch) are probably to blame. Who in the hell is PUTTING the chemicals in the food? They aren't getting in there by themselves. And for what reason? Every effect has a cause. Every action has a motive. When I go into the city of Detroit around 3 pm I see thousands of fat Black school kids standing around and leaning on telephone poles and mail boxes as they wait on the bus (the citybus, because there are no more schools busses for them) to take them home from school. In many cases you can't even tell the boys from the girls. A lot of the boys have breasts. If you drive 2 miles outside the city into the suburbs you'll see skinny White kids.... The boys with their shirts off and the girls in short-shorts, jogging and skipping along, getting in shape with the exercise programs offered by their schools. This can be seen in many other urban/suburban areas across the country. In one or 2 urban areas could be a coincidence, but when you find the same scenes being played out all over the nation....this means it's orchestrated. In Chicago they're closing damn near half the schools in Black neighborhoods. Del I think much of the "hatred" among Black men comes from the pain of not having a father in the home while growing up. I was blessed to have a good father who took care of me, most of the Black boys I grew up with didn't and many were angry and upset about it and told me later as we became adults how jealous and resentful they were at not having someone to teach and protect them as young boys coming up. Often times when a Black man sees another Black man, he subconciously sees the father who abandoned him. ?????? Lol, I'm not sure where you live where you're not seeing Black teenage girls. I've been all over America and Black youth are everywhere. Even in Montana, lol.