[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
nopal_juventus wrote:
I’ve moved around a lot and made friends with people from Watts, Casablanca, Wattsonville, La 89, Zona Norte, EastLos, South Central, Compton, etc.
I’ve met a bunch of families that have lived entire generations in the hood. Said families have worked harder and sacrificed more to provide for their own than anyone I know. They aren’t the exception either. I think they’d object to being fenced off and sentenced to death. Too many people assume that those in the ghetto fucked themselves… problems of this scale are never that simple.
That’s kind of where I’m going. These are the responses of a lot of people that just don’t care.
And it’s funny, because it will stay like that until one of their middle/upper class rich asses is driving through the ghetto and gets caught by a stray. Then there will be a big outcry as to “How people can live like this, what are the cops, government, etc. doing to help…”
So really the only solution that the Politics board can come up with is “Fuck them, they deserve it.”
Man. That’s disappointing. The depth of thought here is not what I thought it would be.[/quote]
Intent must be followed by action to be worth a shit. You can have all the intent in the world but with out doing anything you still suck.
If the ghettos are going to be fixed, personal responsibility will need to be taken seriously.
The gov’t, laws etc etc won’t fix broken people. Individuals truly are the only ones who can fix themselves.
But they won’t. Which is why they suck as some people do and why their neighborhood does too.
Intent + action = change.
That is really as deep as the level of thinking needs to go. There is no hidden philosophy here.
If you can’t afford to do much more than pay the bills check to check, drop the boxing lessons, the bjj, cable tv or what have you.
Extras are great but don’t waste your money if you can’t afford them. Build wealth or at least excess and then get your extras.
My mom is a teacher. She had a poor neighborhood zoned to her school once.
The school gave a refrigerator to a family who didn’t have one in a fund raiser to save the kids from being taken by cps.
True story, the parents sold the fridge, went to cancun “because it wasn’t fair they couldn’t be like rich folks and now they had a chance”, lost the kids and blamed the school for not providing another refrigerator.
While that is a little extreme, it’s thinking like that on an individual basis that creates neighborhoods of like minded people we know as ghettos. People in shanty’s drive cars with huge rims, new paint jobs etc etc and owe more money than welfare pays them to create the image of wealth. Rather than appropriate the money spent on their “whip” responsibly and work to get out of debt and build savings, they buy an image that means shit and keeps them in debt.
A paradigm shift in these individuals is the only real cure.
No amount of federal or charity money will bring change.
The nice neighborhoods, nice cars, well groomed and dressed people of the suburbs are that way because of who they are on the inside. The big house doesn’t maintain itself. It is an outward projection of the inner drive the individual who owns and maintains it has.
Neighborhoods don’t create people. People create neighborhoods. And some people, no matter their intent, just suck.