I have worked few times helping to clean Democratic run neighborhood.
What really hit me was the amount of garbage there. Poop, McDonalds wrappers, all kind of garbage.
Cleaning garbage does not cost ANYTHING!
Even poor people can clean their neighborhood, but, obviously, they do not care!
Years ago (in my Florida city) a black person actually complained street cleaning trucks were spending more time in white neighborhoods... based on the fact many black run communities looked like it had snowed - with so much paper and crap on their streets.
The opposite was true.
Saw street cleaning trucks once in my neighborhood over many years. They run 24/7 in inner city black communities where people clean their cars by throwing fast food containers, garbage, cigarette butts, and any other trash out the car window rather than cleaning their cars by dumping trash in a trash can.
I was raised on “even if you are poor, doesn’t mean you can’t be neat and clean”. It is hard to believe the garbage that people just throw everywhere. And I never believed that if you were born in a very poor neighborhood that there weren’t ways to get ahead. I was born into a family of six kids and my dad worked but didn’t make much money. He was murdered when I was 2 years old and my mom moved us into the “projects”. We ate mush a lot and went to the goodwill for our clothes. But we were clean! Our clothes were kept washed and repaired so they could be handed down to the next kid (I am the youngest so I got nothing but hand me downs). My mom couldn’t keep us going so she gave us all up for adoption. But you know...we all succeeded. We all own our own hoes (all paid for). And yes we found each other after many years and we still love each other.You can make it if you try and have the will.