What to do Next:
Get a few thousand copies of the book “A Framework for Understanding Poverty” by Ruby Payne (race unknown).
Distribute the book and a few hundred social workers (don’t hate on me, this could actually work-some people can’t read).
Show the good folks of Ferguson that they are living every stereotype. Show them how they ARE and what they could become. In many cases, there is generational (happy 18th birthday baby. Let’s get you signed up for some government assistance!) poverty, a way of life.
Why can’t Al Sharkton help bring “his” people up, instead of perpetrating the stereotype? In my opinion, Sharkton and Jackson keep their people down, because pandering to the masses, the uninformed masses, keeps them rich. Plain and simple.
Make Sharkton and Jackson irrelevant. Get them off the stage. Ferguson needs to fix itself. But first, Ferguson needs to understand the problem.
More What to do Next:
Businesses stock up on sand bags and 4x8 foot plywood sheets, and especially ammo.
Brace yourselves for news Wilson won’t be charged with anything.
>> A Framework for Understanding Poverty” by Ruby Payne
Haven’t heard of it - will order a copy. My favorite on the same subject: “Life at the Bottom” by Theodore Dalrymple. (Focused on English poverty, but quite relevant for us.)