Joe has got a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease.
Dear Joe,
I agree entirely that there are smart people everywhere, and that you can find incredibly bright people in poor inner city neighborhoods.
That said, the same is true for ‘pedigree’. There are plenty of untalented graduates and faculty at Harvard, Princeton, Yale etc., and plenty of truly unimpressive and incompetent people walking the halls of Congress. One could easily find people all over the country who are ‘just as bright’, or more, than the people who populate public office.
I doubt, however, that you would be capable or willing to admit or embrace this - considering that your whole self-concept (and that or so many in public office) is predicated on an erroneous belief in ‘superiority’ over those who aren’t part of the DC power structure.
If you are sincere in what you said about ‘poor kids’ being just as bright as anyone else, you need to also admit that the American public, including those who don’t vote for you or your party, are also just as bright as any of your donors, supporters, or colleagues. Put another way, you can’t sincerely be for the eradication of ‘some’ prejudicial stereotypes while turning a blind eye to others.
Joe has got a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease.
He does. He is very inarticulate.
However, his intended point has validity. He would never admit the reason it is valid. We (our nation) have allowed the democrat party to support a wicked and failed culture in the inner-city that prevents and has prevented children from reaching their potential. A child born to a single mother in inner-city Baltimore will be “provided for” by taxpayers and statistically stand little chance escaping abject poverty and crime. They are stuck in a vicious cycle. Pawns in a sick game.
I wish we would have a national conversation about it. These children do have lots of potential, but the odds are it will never be realized in the failed welfare state. That is a tragedy any way you look at it. Just my .02 and I am tired of being told I have no voice about it because of “race.” They are children. Period. American children. They live in a drug and rat infested war zone in our own nation and we send them to the worst of public schools that we spend a fortune on.
Why?
My answer - politics. It has nothing to do with race. That is the excuse and a convenient crutch. There are American children of all races stuck in this cycle of abject failure in both the inner-city and in rural America.
I believe we all have a vested interest in these children and if the “system” is failing them we must change the system. Welfare has become a way of life for too many - it is not a “hand up”. It is a hand that pushes them down and keeps them there when we allow it.
They have told us for decades the answer is more money, more union teachers, more union social workers, more government housing, more more more government. That is Joe’s only answer... it is all the left has given us when all of this government enables the cycle of failure. Joe’s second answer for those of us who do care and want to try something new is that we are “racists” for not providing more government.
There are many facets to this failure, but there is no doubt that government is what enables the vicious cycle to continue. We (all Americans) should demand that the cycle is broken.