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Monday, March 13, 2006

Usher helps minorities by providing false hope

So it seems like the pop singer Usher has decided that he is finally going to give back to the community. Unfortunately I doubt anyone will notice the change.

Apparently he is going to give a seminar at a black and Hispanic teen leadership conference on how to succeed in sports and entertainment. But why is this getting him good press? He is going to do nothing but provide these teenagers, most likely disadvantaged, with false hope of making it in sports or entertainment. Few to none ever succeed in these businesses. I have no clue how many, but I am sure a fair number of teens do drop out of school, or choose not to go to college to try to make it. Economically, this is one of the worst life choices anyone could make. I know we like to pretend that people should pursue their dreams, but how about we tell that to college students who have an education to fall back on, not impressionable teens.

Wouldn't these teens be better off if he just shut up and spent some of his millions to get books into their classrooms?

-Mr. Alec

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