No. That is rather the point. If everyobdy would overcome the odds, the odds wouldn't be against them anymore.
I find it hard to believe that Derek has religiously put $5/day into his retirment investment potfolio and not ended up any further ahead.
In fact, seeing as the market has averaged a 10% annual return, one would expect that after putting $150/month (which is a little less than $5/day) into an investement portfolio, after 40 years of working he would have accumulated roughly $956,667.04. He would be just shy of being a millionaire, and his grandkids could grow up wherever he damn well pleased.
Also, you don't need to have good credit history in order to get student loans, as a large number of students don't have a credit history straight out of high school.
Additionally, when people join the armed services they automatically qualify for the G.I. Bill, and they get steady income in addition to free food and lodging.
Its hard to believe that living in hell is the only option for anyone.
Wow Jray, you were lucky enough to get a free ride to college? God damn boy, and you're sitting here complaining? I sure as hell didn't get a free ride to college and neither did my sister, and neither of us got a dime from our parents because our family didn't make enough money to help. Weird how my sis somehow managed to get her degree, as a single mother, working while going to school.
Must have been because she's white, huh? Is that why she managed to get a degree despite coming from a rural area and a family that was financially unable to help? I'm sure that whole working while going to school and raising a kid thing was doable because of the color of her skin.
And, AA isn't equal opportunity. It's UN equal opportunity. It's legislated favortism. It's legislated racism and sexism. I just cannot for the life of me understand why people are still under the delusion that it's necessary and that's "fair" to force employers to discriminate against white men.
If I knew that someone hired me just to fill some stupid AA requirement, I'd tell them to shove it up their ***.
Come on. Go check the sources I cited two posts ago. The systematic racism is still severe. Brown died with Thurgood Marshall. After Brown things got better and now things are getting worse. Reagen and Bush have stripped the power from Civil Rights legislation. The laws are there but are only effective when enforced. But the white mainstream doesn't think this is happening even when everything says that it is. Instead they elect leaders like Bush and Reagen and Nixon. We can't expect achievment to be equal whe.
So you came from a bad enviorment. You had odds to overcome. Would you not sympathize with those who come from the same position? Not everyone can overcome the odds. If they could would they really be odds? But we can dismantle enviorments that create them. We can guarantee equal opportunity. There is no reason we shouldn't.
I go back to my block all the time and try to help the kids there. But while I tell them try and you will succeed. They will tell me "Well Derek down block did that and he's still here. Mike across the street did that and he's still here." They will tell me they are better off doing what they want then work for nothing. These kids don't have the opportunity they should be garunteed. They are not supposed to go to college. Instead they see drug dealers flaunting their money and see opportunity there. What do I tell the ones that do try and still fail? You didn't try hard enough. The hardest workers have always been the marginalized. If they do succeed they won't change the state of black america. They will leave because they don't have to live there anymore. You can't blame them. So they leave and no new resources come to the neighborhood. Ghettos aren't going to break up through some massive achievement movement. The system makes it so that someone has to be poor.
In his new book Cosby writes, "The schools don't help, they're often terrible quality." Well isn't that part of the problem? We don't have the resources to properly fund the schools. We don't choose the schools our kids go to
Blacks are already very overrepresented in te military. It be one thing if we weren't but we are. Every poor black kid shouldn't ahve to serve in the military in order to recieve an opportunity.
Again, if you ("we" in your statement) would not lead a criminal life, flee from the police, resist the police, and attack the police. Then you ("we" in your statement) won't be "victims" of "police misconduct"..........we are more likely to be victims of police misconduct.
Yes, something needs to be done. The "black community" needs to start educating their youth on how to "FOLLOW THE GOD DAMNED LAW".Black incarceration rates are higher than black crime rates. Hell black incarceration rates are higher than the rates in Aparthied South Africa. Americas has become just as segregated as it was in the past. Things are getting worse. The numbers don't lie. Something needs to be done.
Again, if you ("we" in your statement) would not lead a criminal life, flee from the police, resist the police, and attack the police. Then you ("we" in your statement) won't be "victims" of "police misconduct".
How ****ing hard is that to understand race baiter?
Yes, something needs to be done. The "black community" needs to start educating their youth on how to "FOLLOW THE GOD DAMNED LAW".
And, because this country has come so pathetic in its attempts to silence anything they don't like labeling it racism.
DISCLAIMER: THIS STATEMENT WAS ONLY MEANT FOR THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTE, OR PLAN ON CONTRIBUTING IN THE FUTURE TO THE SITUATIONS WHICH THEY PLACE THEMSELVES INTO BECOMING "VICTIMS" OF POLICE USES OF FORCE. THIS STATEMENT WAS ALSO MEANT FOR THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTE, OR PLAN ON CONTRIBUTING TO THE HIGHER INCARCERATION RATES BY KNOWINGLY OR PLANNING TO COMMIT A CRIME FOR WHICH PRISON IS A PUNISHMENT.
THIS IS NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM IS A BROAD STATEMENT THAT ALL BLACKS ARE CRIMINALS.
Pathetic I had to do such a thing huh?
Report: Prison for blacks more likely -- Newsday.comBlacks on Long Island were 36 times more likely in 2002 to be imprisoned for drug offenses than whites, despite possessing and selling illegal drugs at similar rates
Get you facts straight dumbass.
Report: Prison for blacks more likely -- Newsday.com
And for you dumass, "Don't join gangs comment"
Harvard Public Health Review Winter 2007
Possessing something illegal and getting CAUGHT possessing something illegal are two different things.
In the south side of town where all the rich white people live, drugs are just a prevalent, however, most of the drug arrests come from the north and east sides of town where the rich white people don't live.
Their race has nothing to do with them getting CAUGHT. Their methods do.
In the east and north sides of town, the damned idiots walk around on the ****ing street corners with dope selling it to people.
In the south side of town, people carry it in their vehicles and go from house to house, making it more difficult for them to be caught.
Also, these people in the south part of town know that they CAN say NO to a police officer if asked to search the vehicle. The idiots in the north and east side don't understand this, and thus say yes to consent to search and then the officers find dope in their vehicles, or in their pockets, etc.
:roll:
But of course, lets just point the finger at race and not at actions and methods\
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That may be the biggest logical mix-up ever. The odds only exist if people in the situation are failing. People fail because it is difficult to succeed in the enviorment. The marginalized have always been the hardest workers.
Whats the reality of being able to put away 150/month when your living paycheck to paycheck? Don't tell me they spend it on things they don't need. Most of it is spent on essentials.
At the same time how important is planning for the future when your having difficulty making ends meet today?
The reality is poor people don't have saving, many middle class people don't.
Many of those loans need to be co-signed by parents. Their parents have no assests so they are less likely to be granted private student loans.
There are government loans that they may qualify for but demand is very high for those loans. Of course if we went libertarian those loans and subsidized tuition wouldn't exist.
Blacks are already very overrepresented in te military. It be one thing if we weren't but we are. Every poor black kid shouldn't ahve to serve in the military in order to recieve an opportunity.
The reality is that it is perfectly possible for someone making minimum wage to save three times that at least. I know from experience.
How many people do you actually know personally who don't spend any money on:
Ciggarettes
Alcohol
Soda pop
Coffee
Fast food
Jewelry
Retail clothing
Television/cable
Internet
Music
MP3 players
etc...
And for those who live in cities with a public transportation system:
Cars
Car insurance
Gas
Parking
"Rims"
etc...
The answer to that would be "especially important."
The reality is that I was a poor person and I saved. And having saved, I am no longer a poor person. Is that another "logical mix-up?" It makes perfect sense to me.
Maybe it depends on where you live. Folk going to the University of Washington can get a private loan from Bank of America without the need for a parent to cosign.
If we went Libertarian, schools would be more effective, and less expensive.
Not every black kid does have to serve in the Military to get an opportunity. You got an opportunity didn't you?
If every black kid who serves in the military saves $5/day, their children won't have to serve in the military to get an opportunity.
And its not like a few years of service is terrible price to pay for an opportunity. I am rather planning on joining myself.
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