>>”Since arriving en masse during the Great Migration more than a century ago, Black Chicagoans have been violently relegated to the margins, exploited at every turn and expected to do more with less.”
Tell them to blame Oprah. She’s from Chicago and is a billionaire. She got their share, no doubt.
“Tell them to blame Oprah. She’s from Chicago and is a billionaire. She got their share, no doubt.”
Actually Oprah is an wonderful example that a black person born in poverty to a single mother, as many blacks are today, can through hard work and determination rise above adversity to become a billionaire. Is this possible in any African country?
Despite her circumstances, she made good choices. She stayed in school, despite being pregnant at 14 and having her son die in infancy. She found a job in radio at age 19. She developed an audience and built that audience into a media empire.
Whether you agree with her politics or not, Opah wasn’t given her wealth and fame. She owes poor black Chicagoans no more than any successful person and is no more to blame for the lifestyle those who made bad choices lead.
If we want to have an honest discussion on race we need to address the issue of personal responsibility. A third generation single teen mother who hangs out with the gang bangers, and doesn’t get a high school diploma has almost no future. It doesn’t matter if she was born black and raised on the south side of Chicago or born white in a redneck trailer park in rural Georgia. A teen who rejects education and expects to hit it big as a pimp, drug dealer, rapper, or basketball star is almost certainly going to be disappointed for his lot in life.