How can kids who attend second class schools, without chemistry labs, with outdated textbooks, in substandard buildings, and with disinterested teachers compete with a white suburban kid who has been on a computer since he was born?

It ain't happening!

President Obama is wrong, black parents do not rise their kids to be crack heads, basketball stars, or rappers. Like every parent, they hope that the public school inspires and guides them to become secure and independent. But when you walk into a classroom that emits a careless attitude about your success, then you unwillingly adopt that attitude and fall further into the cycle of engineered poverty.

Wake up Obama. Don't tell me to teach kids with 19th century books in a 21st century world. Don't pull a Booker T. Washington on me. When I 'cast down my bucket', I get polluted drinking water that further inhibits my chance at cognitive thoughts.