[Melissa]

To answer it quite simply because that is the way that some people are raised and they can’t or won’t aspire to anything better. Some people feel that being respectful of other people with their actions or simply ‘lawn decorations is ‘acting white.’ My mother was raised very poor in the ‘ghetto’ but she got a well-paying job and growing up I lived in the best neighborhood in an all-white town. And we definitely did not even approach bringing the ghetto with us. We were taught to be respectful, polite, take pride in what we had and ourselves and treat other people the way we would someone to treat our own mother. But some(definitely not all) black people (some of my own relatives included) feel that the live in a little bubble and that their actions or failure to do things has no effect on anyone else. Or maybe I can sum the whole thing up in one word. Ignorance, plain and simple.

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Name : Melissa, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 23, City : Warren, State : OH, Country : United States, Occupation : Office Manager, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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