| | The damage done to the african-american community by the breakdown of family and community is enough to break one's heart. I am white, and grew up in a small town in Alabama where many black parents raised their children to build a good life for themselves. I went to a school that was 50/50, white and black. Our parents and teachers expected us to behave, and we got along much better than many people might think. It is a cruel irony that today's young African-Americans have opportunites that their parents and grandparents worked and prayed for, but many of them are dissipating themselves.
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