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(Ex + Ch + Pr) x IQ = Level of social success

Expectations: family, cultural, personal

Choices: personal, parents

Proclivity: what one is naturally inclined towards

If you can grant some validity to the rough equation above, it's easy to understand why the programs to improve the state of urban black folks have mostly failed, and possibly made things worse. I think what happened starting in the 1960s is that our society made it "OK" to have low expectations, which lead to poor choices, that handcuffed any (positive) proclivity that a young black man might have.

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