I thought that the gazillions put into the ‘Great Society’, midnight basketball, replacing food stamps with a ‘credit card looking’ card, Section 8 housing, employment etc were going to take care of this ‘low esteem’ problem.
EVERY ethnic group had its ‘turn in the barrell’ and when the ‘group’ banded together to make things better (their own schools, churches etc) in 20-30 (a generation or 2) years they were not only the decision makers but all but the ‘sorriest’ of the lot were basically ‘making it’.
LBJ ‘invented’ the Great Society 50 years ago and we have virtually seen the ‘target’ audience GET WORSE in terms of self help and especially in self determination.
The results were ‘flipped’ from the other groups...a goodly portion ‘got out’ but far too many were left to ‘rot’ in the inner cities.
Remember the ‘beautification programs’ of the inner cities, where the ‘institutions were dropped’, flop houses were razed, businesses that hired ‘common folk’ were driven out and the ‘homeless’ were thrust upon us
It isn’t “Where did they come from” etc, ‘they’ were always there, they just got turned out onto the street.
Is the ‘inner city’ of today going to go through the same ‘Urban Renewal’process?
That is when it will get interesting,— but I guess ‘they’ will wait until this latest round of ‘immigrants’ takes control of the inner cities, thereby ‘ejecting’ the current denizens —till further actions will be taken.
These earthly schemes ended up being a trap.
This sold the idea of government as an idol to millions who did not look past the programs to God.
Government (and liberals) might be flattered at first, but soon, like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, they will gasp at what a demanding monster they have engendered in this needy people.