Originally Posted by
Dan64456
In this "great" country, people do NOT have equal opportunity. Ask the kids attending (or dropping out of) Chester High in PA, or any public high school in North Philly, or Harlem. It's the ghetto. I can GUARENTEE you they don't have their choice of what prestigious university they want to attend at their feet. But you get all fat and happy because you had the choice as the American dream would advertise, but you forget about the rest of the world (or country) that is less fortunate. Some people grow up not even knowing what a University is.
I don't agree with that. Look at the President, not because of his color but his background. He was born a nobody and a minority at that with no traditional parents. If that is not equal opportunity. I don't know what to tell you. As far as the ghetto, it's about probability not because of opportunity. Someone from the ghetto is less likely to do well in school, which means no college, which means no career, which means poverty. It's a cycle.