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The question is: Why the prevalence of this negative attitude toward academic achievement (which is doubtless partially responsible for the economic disparity)? I suspect a lot of blacks feel the system's set up against them anyway and they're doomed to fail regardless, so there's no point in fighting it. A self-defeating attitude if there ever was one, sadly.
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Many white poor aknowledge 'the man' also with distain. I do think they feel that one must not become part of the oppressor. Fortunately, also, there are many good mothers out there that drill into their kids that an education is the only hope to escape the cycle of poverty.
So perhaps there is a cultural myth exists that educating oneself and obtaining a higher social status is the equivilant of buying into a corrupt system.