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Big Huge Games Jun 6, 2012, 00:29 RollinThundr Beamer wrote on
Jun 5, 2012, 19:33: Agent.X7 wrote on Jun 5, 2012, 11:24:
RollinThundr wrote on Jun 5, 2012, 10:20: Beamer wrote on Jun 5,
2012, 09:44: The idea that "anyone can rise above" is such "pull
yourself up by your bootstraps" garbage. I believed it, too,
until I moved to the slums of Newark, NJ. Trust me, no one there
can do any such thing. Go find yourself an inner city teacher to
talk to and ask what kind of opportunities their kids have. Most
of them live in slums with used needles in the hallways, used
condoms in the stairwells and gunshots in the walls. They come
home to parents passed out on the couch from drugs. Do you
actually think an elementary school kid coming home to this is
thinking "gee, I better learn my multiplication tables!" No,
they're not, and no one is guiding them. By the time they
realize, if they ever rea