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Blacks Need To Be More Responsible

Obama tells blacks to be more responsible

CINCINNATI - Democrat Barack Obama received a prideful welcome from the annual NAACP convention Monday night, but in a stirring speech to the nation's oldest civil rights organization, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives.
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I can agree with this statement. It is the individual who decides his or her own fate. Even if you grow up with little or nothing you can educate yourself and better yourself. You do not have to be in a gang. You do not have to turn to the lure of easy money with a life of crime. What you do with your own life is what make you the person you are. Placing blame on outside forces is just passing the buck and not taking responsibility for your own actions.

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This is the first thing I have heard Obama say of any substance that I agree with somewhat. I say somewhat because for me to totally agree you would have to take away the focus on just blacks and make it a blanket statement. I believe there are people of every class and ethnic group that would benefit by taking his advice. Too many people have a sense of entitlement and have forgotten what made this country great - the willingness to stand on your own two feet, show some initiative and take care of your own. Today it seems people are too willing to give up their freedoms for a free ride. I do not believe this is limited to any one group of people.

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I have to agree with Obama's sentiments(can't believe I just said that). This is good advice for every young Man. A man needs to take responsibility for his own life and actions and not blame others for his shortcomings.

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My thoughts exactly, but I also find that if you start out with absolutely nothing, it's not that "people are too willing to give up their freedoms for a free ride". If you start out with nothing, chances are, you've been downtrodden and beaten by life. Not everyone has the strength to overcome this, no matter what your race may be.

Incoming, long scenario: If you have nothing to begin with, you have to start at the bottom of the barrel and basically have nothing but your parents' good graces for you until you are old enough to work. If your parents don't have alot of money, those good graces are few and far between. Then you're old enough to work. Instead of leaving high school and jumping into university or college, you work for years in a fast food or retail job where you take [removed]t from people on a daily basis and everyone treats you like a loser who can't get anywhere in life, instead of getting mommy or daddy's money to take you through school or take a job in mommy or daddy's company. You feel degraded and may lose respect for yourself due to the disrespect you receive by countless customers on a daily basis. You finally save up enough money as you can to get out of the job as quick as possible, not having spent anything on yourself to treat yourself so that you can get out of the job faster. You may even burn out from the repetitiveness of the job and the stress over stupid little penny-pinching rules. This burn out drains energy you could be using educating yourself. You get into school and you have to keep working WHILE you're in school to afford room and board, food, supplies, books, etc. You don't get to spend as much time on your studies because you're working, so instead of studying and using your free time to relax so you don't stress out, you have to work with that free time and you never get a chance to relax. You finally get out of school and no one wants to give you a job, because you don't have any experience and there is high competition for entry level jobs. So you have to kiss [removed], fake that you're a super over-achieving, extra perky individual, just so that you can get an edge in that interview to win out against the competition. Once you get into the job, you can't get ahead just by proving that you have good knowledge and skills, but you can only get a head if you have a little bit of that and you have really good social skills. So you fake liking your superiors, kiss alot more [removed], possibly get burnt out from the menial work grind (depending on your profession), and then finally you're sitting at the top while the people that had more to begin with have been sitting at the top for years, not having a single clue why "life is so difficult for THOSE people".

End of long scenario

Now remove all that [removed] and replace the option for government handouts, welfare, gangs where you carry out quick and dirty jobs, make money faster, and possibly earn respect from your peers, prostitution and stripping involving quick dirty jobs with significantly more income than retail/fast food....to me, it sounds like there's grounds for incentives to choose the frowned upon activities

To always make the socially acceptable choices, you have to have dedication and sound morals, which are both easy as pie to lose completely when you are given the [removed] stick in life.

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Blacks Need To Be More Responsible

That is why I think the government should stop the handouts. Welfare has been proven not to work at all. Let people take responsibility for themselves and stop giving free hand outs. I saw a person the other day deposit three different welfare checks into his own account. I guess he had three different Ids to get three checks. The system is broken so get rid of it. I was poor kid growing up. I am no longer poor.

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"The system is broken so get rid of it." I think if the system is broken, we should fix it, because....

"I was poor kid growing up. I am no longer poor."
I am the same. Not only was I poor, but I had alot of bad experiences, and I pulled through to be quite successful. The difference is, not everyone is like me or you. There are people that may have had even worse situations than me that genuinely need the help of welfare. For example, the mentally ill that can either not perform in a job or are incapable of holding a job, or need welfare for a period of time before they sort themselves out enough to work and not be dependent on welfare. Mental illness can come from birth, an accident, or mental trauma caused by past experiences. These people need help. Some for life, some for specific periods of time. The welfare system (in Canada, I am unfamiliar with the system in the United States, but I think they are similar) is able to accommodate people in need, such as the mentally ill, among others. However, there will always be someone trying to abuse the situation.

I personally believe that it is more important to help the needy as opposed to getting rid of the help due to the fact that some people abuse it. It is possible to protect the system from abusers.

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