I am so sick of this b...sh.t. Michelle went to Princeton and Harvard. Barack went to Harvard. Where the f... is the racism? Are these not people who grew up in the 60’s and matriculated to the highest level of US education? Were they held back by their race or their families economics?
My grandfather was an alcoholic and my grandmother an American Indian. The other set of grandparents were Irish immigrants. Each were manual laborers who didn’t have a pot to p... in. My mom and dad worked their tails off so my brother and I could go to school. I wish I had thanked them more before they both passed.
My brother and I are both very well off having lived the American dream. Not because of anything from the generations before us but because of the hard work of my parents and ourselves. We made choices in life...and quite frankly that is why we are where we are today. Not everyone will succeed financially in life...but everyone can make good choices or bad choices and those decisions will impact your life much more than a government. It’s time, no it’s past time, for individuals to take responsibility for their lives.
It’s well past time to put this racial cr.. behind us. I’ll hire anyone who can enhance my business. It is as simple as that. Make a choice and grow your opportunities or make a choice and kill your opportunities.
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