Im sick of this shit.

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Sloats
Until you start getting college educations and getting your children out of the deplorable inner city school systems, you will always be second class citizens.

Same goes for my white brethen in the trailer parks, except they don't take advantage of the fine suburban school system.

I would grant you that argument, except it's not always possible for someone living in the inner city to get a better education and move up in the world when politics and world views are often designed to work against them.

Whenever you get a chance, look up the state district boundaries in your area. See how they contour and bend oddly not by street, but by demographic in the populace. How all the wealthier neighborhoods seem to live in one district, while poorer ones live in another. It didn't happen purely by coincidence.

Hell, in Brooklyn and Queens, there are routine arguments over redistricting, because politicians are looking at getting governance over wealthier constituents. No one wants to help out the destitute (no matter what they say), because there is truthfully nothing <i>immediately</i> beneficial in doing so-- in the long term yes, because those destitute who do succeed in life might come back to help out the old neighborhood, but what politician wants to stake his/her career on such a long-term bet?

The result is an endless cycle where the poorer folks get passed around like a drunken frat girl, and are underrepresented for things such as money for education, new housing and better living conditions. As a result, they can't afford to go to college and earn skills necessary to get the higher-paying jobs.

I think what you then see is the attitude, the feeling that somehow the government <i>owes</i> them something, and that they should just sit around and wait until it gets there, like it's some sort of magic cure-all.