Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can’t teach kids to
learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
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| — | Senator Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, quoted by Roland Fryer |
