Word: blamed
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Furthermore, black teens are more reluctant than others to blame racism for problems. Indeed, nearly twice as many black kids as white believe "failure to take advantage of available opportunities" is more of a problem for blacks than discrimination. That's especially extraordinary given the fact that 40% of the black teens surveyed believe SATs are loaded against them, and that blacks have to be better qualified than whites to get a job. These responses seem to indicate that black teens believe color barriers exist, but, despite that, they retain an admirably dogged belief in self-determination...
...that gullibility? Or gutsiness? Today's teens have respect for the past, faith in the future--and a distaste for scapegoating that outstrips that of their parents. One of the survey's more notable findings: even though neither black teens nor whites tend to blame racism as a cause of problems facing blacks, they nonetheless support gender- and race-based scholarships in greater numbers than adults...
Clearly I've got a problem of vast proportions on my hands. And yet it's hard to know who's to blame: is it the industry? Have the folks in the film business, like those running television news, responded to market pressures by dumbing down their product, sapping it of whatever originality and intellectual vitality it used to offer...
...Death on the Nile Part 2 The Islamic militant group who carried out Monday's massacre of 60 tourists have come forward. But are the Egyptian police more to blame...
...infrastructure would crumble even faster than it already is doing, and the Canadian hordes would sweep down from Toronto to overcome our poorly paid armed forces. And when we're pretending to like Molson and sitting through marathon ?Kids in the Hall? reruns, we'll know who to blame...