if it were the environment then NOBODY would ever come out of the ghetto successful.
No, that's a false (and ridiculous) assumption based on absolutely no logic what so ever.
The fact is that if you grow up in a poor area, with no education, high crime, and no economic opportunity, you're very unlikely to achieve success. And that's the reality. It's not an excuse, it's just the facts that statistics prove.
That holds up true pretty much everywhere regardless of race. If you grow up in a house of meth addicts, you're more likely to be a meth addict yourself. If you grow up in a house where your parents didn't go to college, you're less likely to go to college yourself. If you grew up poor, you're more likely to die poor. These are facts. Sure, people beat the stats, but that doesn't make the stats less true.
it is up to the individual. and whether or not he CHOOSES to ride excuses all day, or simply gets up and makes something of himself.
Ok fine. But I though we were talking about communities not individuals here? If you want to blame Johnny for his choice to join a gang, fine by me. I won't object. But if you want to know why these gangs exist all over the country, I'm telling you why. When it comes down to it, it has to do with economic opportunity and education, not race. If the roles were reversed, and white people were denied education and opportunity for hundreds of years, it would be white people living in ghettos and joining gangs.
i can say it again if you still don't get it.
Yeah, that's not the problem here.