Being an illegal immigrant
Being illiterate in any language, let alone English
Ignoring / rejecting any chance to get an education
Having multiple children before you reach 20 Y/O (or 18 Y/O in some cases)
Drinking or doing drugs, or dealing in the same...
= Recipe for lifelong poverty
Opportunity exists for those willing to do the work to use that opportunity.
Equal opportunity does not mean enforced ‘equal’ outcomes.
My father worked in the printing industry. They printed USAFI textbooks & answer books. I remember seeing them when I was a kid—over 70 years ago.
My brother also worked for years in the printing/graphics business. He had a payroll of 65 employees-—for YEARS.
I went to grade school, high school & took accounting classes at the college level.
I NEVER once saw a different set of textbooks for blacks vs white. I never saw different pens—notebooks—pencils—erasers—protractors, desks, chairs, tables, libraries, backpacks or anything even remotely associated with school in 2 or more different types. Same heat, lights, teachers, windows, floors, walls, lockers, etc.
I am beyond tired of everyone complaining that blacks don’t get a ‘good education’. There are some basic prerequisites for getting any kind of education:
Actually attending school, paying attention, NOT being disruptive, and doing the homework assignments are among the most basic. The attitudes of the blacks of ‘being an Uncle Tom’ if you you actually do proper studying, etc, has to end.
I have absolutely NO sympathy for those who wish to throw away the opportunity for a FREE education thru 12th grade, provided by taxpayers like myself.
I have owned 4 houses in my lifetime. Due to having ownership overlap & for the fact that I paid my Dad’s property taxes for 7 or 8 years before he passed, I find that I have paid more years of property taxes than my total age. I am 78. I have paid 84+ years of property taxes, and I didn’t own the first house until I was 26. At one point, I was paying on 3 homes at the same time. 2 were rented, but I still paid property taxes on them-—never one minute late, either. I have no children-—so that approx 50% of MY property tax bill is going into the pot to “PAY FOR YOUR LITTLE DARLINGS TO GET AN “EDUCATION”. I certainly would like to get a refund of that 50%-—NOW, especially , since I live on Soc Sec.
Since they refuse to play by the rules, I don’t give a damn anymore if they are not ‘getting an education’. You can lead a horse to water....etc. However- I actually do have horses & I DO know how to get them to drink. (Not really that hard). Too bad it isn’t as easy to get the ghetto kids to pay attention enough to get an education.
Until someone can prove to me that the books & all the accompanying items in schooling are created in multiple forms just to cause the blacks problems, I won’t change my stance.
I would dearly applaud ANY future candidate that shows up on a stage with 2 desks, 2 stacks of textbooks, 2 of everything else, and asks the audience “Which one is for the black kid & which one is for the white kid”? It is time this is being brought to the forefront.
Don’t even get me started on ‘Affirmative Action Hiring” & “Placement in colleges”. One serious rant a day is enough.
Great post!
“Equal opportunity does not mean enforced ‘equal’ outcomes.”
It does now if it leads to votes. Heck, equality under the law has been replaced by equality of outcomes. (Just look at what Obama’s Promise program did to those teenagers and their families.)
From the article...
“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow. We have had enough of looking to Washington and we have had enough of legislators—not so much, however, in this as in other countries—promising laws to do that which laws cannot do. When you get a whole country—as did ours—thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augurs ill for the future. Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves”
I thought this push toward totalitarianism started in the 60’s. I guess it started about 100 years ago. Gotta do more reading on Wilson.
My Grandfather went through the Russian Revolution. Should start heeding his words.