Umm, didn’t you get the memo blaming Whitey for ginning up the festish culture? Yes indeed, there’s this vast bi-wing conspiracy that goes by the name of capitalism for the sole purpose of separating black money fom black owners.

For a price, they will sell you the assessories to pimp your lifestyle. For a rate, they will loan you money to stay ahead of the Joneses. For a high, they’ve unleashed crack. For some bling-bling, they promote the gangsta lifestyle. For a fee, the KlannedParenthood will help you abort a mistake. Of course it ain’t the black’s fault. It’s Whitey operating the levers behind the curtain of smoke-n-mirrors.

They rank states based on per pupil spending. They calculate per pupil spending as the percentage of funding that actually goes to the classroom: teachers salaries, school operations, technology, textbooks, etc.

The organization’s goal is to require by law schools to spend 65 cents of every dollar in the classroom.

I hope this provides something to work with.

Is there a source for this? If so, I’d like to know what it was.

If a person is told often enough that he or she hasn’t a chance, that the deck is stacked, that “the system” won’t allow success, that person will eventually come to believe such nonsense. It’s a classic example of the self-fulfilling prophecy.

Every bit of effort must be directed at overcoming problems on the way to success, and no effort at all should be expended on non-productive and negative programs. Everyone knows what the problems are. Let’s focus on how to get past them.

I feel passionately about this. My two little cousins need to hear how bright their lives can be, not how bad they will be because of the color of their skins. That’s why I get rather exercised when I read posts by certain people which are always focused upon the negative. If these “negativity preachers” ever try passing that garbage on to my cousins, there will be trouble from me, I guarantee it. One kid wants to become a doctor, and one has his sights set upon a career in business, and I’m not going to let anyone push their hopes and dreams into the mud.

Ok, end of rant.

Agreed.

I would say the gov’t needs to take action by ending counterproductive social programs. In 1984 the gov’t tolerated drug addiction, promiscuity and criminality amongst the proles, they even promoted it.

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Have a Blessed Day!

M

I’m a little puzzled by your comments. Are you suggesting that government is the solution, or at least part of it?

I don’t agree entirely with the comparison of the American “underclass” to the proles of “1984.” The government of Oceania basically ignored the proles. Our government hardly ignores the lower class, though I think that it does more harm than good with the various programs that are in place.

I think we’re all interested in solving the problem of transgenerational poverty (well, I don’t think the dems really are), though the devil’s in the details. What do you think are the causes of the problem, and what do you think ought to be done to fix it?

This is one point I must vehemently disagree with. I see it each and every day in various and sundry ways. Sometimes it’s the well-intentioned yet foolish remark of someone close to me. Sometimes it’s outright disgust at my presence where I “shouldn’t” be. It is a recognizable factor in the lives of Blacks and every other non-caucasian group in the United States. ‘

Sorry but this is just the childish trivialization of racism that obscures real problems. Everybody faces disapproval and everybody has to listen to foolish comments. The real problem is the societal and governmental tolerance of underclass behavior as long as it is kept at an acceptable level. This is directly the treatment of the proles from ‘1984′ and it will never change until both as a society and nation we look at a 68% out of wedlock birthrate and transgenerational poverty and recognize that as the problem and address it. How does anyone expect schools to improve when 75% of the kids are from single parent homes? How is the crime rate going to be changed when you’ve got generations of kids growing up with no guidance? It’s not going to be some governmental program that’s going to change this or some diversity awarenes program, it’s going to take a committment of society and gov’t to address the real problems that create transgenerational poverty.

The first time I got there, a beautiful woman named Naomi showed me around and gave me the basics on the streets and the organizations out there trying to help out. She also described poverty to me. She said that there were two kinds of poverty: situational- Something happens that puts a family into poverty, not necessarily of their own making. (ie- the primary money earner in the family dies or looses their job or is seriously injured and can no longer work- therefor the family is thrown into poverty.) usually this type of family finds a way to get out of their poverty situation at some point in time.

the other type is Cultural- Their mother never worked, their father never worked, their aunts, uncles, friends, etc, never worked- never held a legit job. These families/ people, literally, don’t know how to get or hold on to a job. Cultural poverty is the primary reason for the poor neighborhoods in SE DC.

Naomi told me a story to illustrate her point. About a year ago, she and a large group of volunteers decided to start a program for the people (primarily women) of the area. They went door to door and told every person who answered their door about the program. They were going to meet in the afternoons, and they would teach anyone who showed up how to get and hold a job. They would get people in touch with programs that would teach them skills, and then get them in touch with businesses looking for work. At every door they got a positive response. Yet the night of the first meeting- not one person showed up. (nor did anyone show up after further prodding and reminding.) Not one person even had a desire to find work- there are tons of reasons for this (welfare and charity programs with salary caps- etc) but the primary reason was that no-one they talked to saw any reason, nor did they have any desire to get a job. It was a completely foreign concept to them.

Thanks for keeping me thinking!

Monika Brooks
Oakland, CA