It is 20% real!! One thing that they need to get a grasp on is that, black kids do not question their parents like these kids do, and have both parents is not a phenomenon in the black neighborhood, like we have been trained to believe. In order for neighborhoods like "Lincoln Heights" to get better you need strong civic minded people to live there. You can't keep running to the suburbs, the minute you get two nickles to rub together, because of so-called better schools, fewer blacks and Hispanics do not make for better schools or neighborhoods! I live in a neighborhood much like "Lincoln Heights" bought two lots and built a 3000 Sq.ft house and forced the neighbors to do better, the landlords of the many tenements to do better, and made the police more accountable, and everyday I see more and more white faces moving in, while the blacks run out to the suburbs, so happy thinking they are moving on up, they fail to see all the u-hauls coming into the neighborhood. My daughters and (17/18) both go to the area school, consider poor on the list of schools, but my 18 yrs old got accepted to Duke full academic ride and my 17 yr old is going to Rice (Texas Harvard) ! My kids may have though to say mom/dad but they didn't and we had very few problems with them. They dated who they wanted and we trusted them to make the right decisions about intimate matters.   See 1 other reply