DaimenKain wrote:
AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
DaimenKain wrote:
Whether white or black, or yellow or WHATEVER, if you're poor, you're poor because of mistakes YOU made. Not many people (black or white) are poor because they were victimized by the system or anybody else.
So a 5-year-old girl that is poor made some terrible life choices to be that way? And she has every opportunity to make herself not poor?
School, or a no-skill job. Show me how a poor person affords college.
The situation for a poor family makes it very difficult to not perpetuate that poorness to the children.
What does a 5 year old have to do with anything. Obviously I'm talking about the people who can get a job and help themselves.
And how does a poor person afford college? You're joking right? You've never heard of scholarships and grants? And, oh yea, I forgot, college admissions aren't bending over backwards to try to get more minorities into their school.
Yes, being from a poor family makes it more difficult to not be poor later on, but FAR from impossible.
Like I said earlier, if you WORK HARD, you'll make it in this country, period. Black or white.
Remember those things called the ACT and SAT (they are what really get you into college and get you access to most scholarships)?
Yeah, they are kinda hard to pass if your gradeschool/highschool is nearly entirely funded by the government contributions instead of big healthy land owner land taxes and such.
Just for an example. A teacher is a human being trying to make it in the world. Now, they can choose after getting done with college to make 26k a year possibly, or 35k. The 35k is a nice school where everyone is higher class, there is less crime, so on and so forth. The 26k is in the ghetto. Which one would most Americans trying to make it in the world choose?
Of course, I would choose the 35k one too. Anyways, those spots would be filled by the people that did the best in their classes at college, and were the brightest and most hard working individuals. So the 35k school gets those teachers.
Whats left after that is usually (but not always, sometimes people choose to teach at a lower income school for more or less humanitarian reasons, god bless their souls) are people who managed to scrape by. They aren't horrible people, but they simply just didn't either apply themselves, or just plain aren't as smart as the 35k teachers.
You see where this is going? The better schools get better teachers, better equipment, and better property. All these things lead to a better education and higher SAT and ACT scores, and thus more scholarships. This all has been proven statistically as well btw, and even without the race card played in.
So it makes it harder for a poor person to be able to crawl out of poverty. It perpetuates itself with the system we have.
So to say that they can do whatever they want to is an all out lie. You can (90 percent of the time) only be as smart as the people that teach you, not everyone are geniuses.
But if you can't understand that obviously, you need more education yourself.
