crockett

Actually I will argue against that.. I used to do contractor work and I've worked in a lot of black neighborhoods. I've been in a lot of black families homes and I will be the first to say that blacks often have much more close-nit communities. (I'm not talking hardcore ghetto, but your average black across the tracks neighborhoods that you will see in the average US city)

Blacks do have a issue with deadbeat dads or parents with kid that aren't the same fathers but, whites have the same problems. Black family structures are usually ok and not that indifferent from your average white family.

I can't say I have the same first hand experience with hispanics but from what I've seen I can't say that they are in any different situation as a group than blacks or whites.

In fact I'd almost go as far to say that both Blacks & hispanics might have closer family structure with their grandparents and so on as they often live together.

I think it's stupid to use family structure as reason some groups of people do better than others. IMO I tend to think it's just a simple fact that they don't seem to share the same goals or mentality as people that tend to be successful.

This also is seen in whites as myself being a white male I'm not even going to pretend that somehow that makes me any better than anyone else and I've seen more than my fair share of useless white people, it's just that there tends to be a lesser percentage of hispanics & blacks that become what many of us consider "successful".

In my opinion, this isn't a race issue but it's a issue of people having the wrong types of goals or simply having the wrong attitude and not understanding how to fix or improve their situation.

I know a guy Puerto Rican for example that has a decent blue collar job. He's making enough to not be in poverty, he has 3 kids and is married. He told me he got 5 grand back on his taxes this year so whats he do? Buys some piece of shit car and some other dumb as shit and blows it all.

Now this is a guy that works a job, has a so so income and if he would work on getting some credit he could easily buy a modest house and improve his situation. Yet instead of doing that he just wastes his money.

This is a problem with lower income families. It's not just a Black or a Hispanic thing but it is very prevalent in their cultures with-in the US. Now days this is also becoming more prevalent among White families as well, so unless we start really spending money on education in this country we are going to be having worse problems 50 years from now and it's not going to be a race thing, but a uneducated/unmotivated thing.