My cousin wrote this on my fb page about my post on Trayvon

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30. Here is a response I gave to a similar post you are responding to

Maybe you can use part of it? She was a fundy so I used Jesus at the end.

I think it's more about walking through a poor area than a "black" area of town. We have to remember that blacks were slaves and still had to ride in the back of the bus not that long ago. Many blacks who had to do these things are still alive. But lets examine the mechanism of why things like crime are higher in poor, minority areas. When your race is enslaved for 200 years and then finally let free but given no jobs or no good jobs then you create whole neighborhoods of poor people who live in a country where they question their worth because they can't vote and get spit on walking through a white neighborhood and they see their family members lynched. As any psychologist will tell you the vicious circle is extremely hard to break. In Erickson's eight stages of human development it's shown the human brain wires its self to survive in a harsh environment within just a few years of life. They become hard wired to live in the ghetto and not know how to get out. All through history the poor have struggled with self-respect and crime is rampant and yet if you take a poor minority kid out of the ghetto and raise them in a good middle class family they will thrive and do just as good as any kid will do. That's a fact. Those of us who were lucky and born into good middle class families have a responsibility to the poor. To see their potential and help them up. Poor people simply need a lot of understanding and respect before they can learn to respect themselves and they also need good jobs. You can chose to see them as good for nothing and ready to riot or you can chose to see them as Jesus did. That's what Jesus was all about. Washing the feet of the poor and showing them they are worth something and are loved. Maybe we should learn from that?