Temujin said:
You obviously have no idea what poverty is like or being poor is like. Being poor is like drowning. When you are fighting to keep your lights on fighting to keep food in the frig fighting to buy clothes for your children your only thoughts are on the necesities of life that day. You can't think of the future or tommorow because you are hungry today. Bill Cosby telling you to go read a book or stop talking black does not put food on your table.
It is very sad that you think so poorly of your people. You honestly think black people want to be poor and want to be wards of the state. Because that is what your saying. You are saying that by helping the poor that liberals are enabling their poor behaviour. That is another illustration of the racism in that ideology. You think your people don't want money. Come on. Poor people don't know how to succeed in this society it is not that they don't want to suceed.
I can't believe you had the nerve to bring up MLK to protect your conservative ideology. MLK was all about changing the system not accepting the system like a tom and telling people you got to be better slaves. MLK marched on washington I guess you don't remeber that. He was struggling against the system. Didn't your right wing radio homeboy say MLK was irrelevant 2006 basically that if he was alive we wouldn't need him. Give me a break If malcolm and martin were around all the conservative coons would be running and hiding.
As far as poverty statistics if you really did look at the census statists and if you could understand them
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/black/ppl-164/tab16.pdf
you would see that 30% of black people under the age of 18 where considered in poverty. 22% of the black population as a whole is under the poverty level. So how can 9 out of 10 people escape poverty yet the adult poverty rate is only 8% less than the child poverty rate. If 9 out 10 people escaped poverty it would take 2 years and we would not have a poverty problem. It is clear to most people that have taken a serious look at the subject that most people who are poor stay poor. And a lot of people who aren't poor become poor.
And one last thing. How does your self empowerment campaign work for the children. How does it help children who's parents are poor who you will not give aid too. Children that are too young to work and must depend on their poor parents for guidance and education. I guess they are suppose to pull themselve up by their bootstraps too. Since you don't support having leaders and parents should be roll models what can a poor parent teach a child but how to be poor. If their is no outside help these poor children become poor adults with poor education and poor habits with a poor future.
Yes, MLK did march to change the system. He wanted the system to stop oppresing people, NOT FOR A HANDOUT. And who the hell are you to tell me who I can and cannot bring up, especially considering the fact that you concentrate on the propblem, and not the solution.
Now, as usual, you are wrong. I WAS one of those kids in poverty. I grew up in Bushwick projects, Brooklyn NY during the 70's & 80's. One of the pictures Jimmy Carter took in his famous anti-poverty campaign was a couple of block from where I went to middle school. I've seen shit that the wankstersmake records about. I've lived it. I have seen how the government run welfare system and public school system have routinely failed black people way more often than they have helped anyone. And when you hear about people it has helped, they invariably piont out a person who cared, not a check written. I saw the corroding effect being a ward of a city has on ones outlook on life. I saw how self righteous folks like you look to control, not liberate, others. I saw how little this society cared about me and mine. I realized that since society has very little concern for my success or failure. So I said let me go for mine. Let me help others. let me make a difference. I realized that it made no sense to ask those who don't care in the first place for help. I listened to the ballot or the bullet, and Malcolm said that the black man looking for the white man to help them is like the mouse going to the cat for affection. That shit did it for me. And yhou know what, I'm not in poverty anymore. I am free to help in a way that I and those I help, find agreeable. However, I am constanty frustrated bay people like you who think they know what to do with my resouces better than I do. Those like you who think that charity can be forced. Those like you who think that there is such a thing as benevolent tyranny. But I will fight the power. Because I, unlike you, do not want to change who the oppressor is, but want to get rid of all oppression. And by the way, those in poverty do not have a right to my money. I have a right to give it to them when I wish and how I wish. That is not being cold blooded, but being free.
And under your logic, there should be MORE people in poverty, not less. According to the same census website you linked, that is simply not the case.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov14.html
Actually, this shows that the war on poverty has been a bust for black people. But you want more money from more people to "solve" the problem. Typical.
Also, you sterotypical liberals do not listen. I have often said that I do not agree with many of the things that "right wing radio' hosts say. Many of them are social engineers, just like you. They want to control other people, just like you. I do not want to mandate control of others, unlike you. I wish to maximize liberty, not be the new Klansman, like you. And that is exactly what you are being by wanting to take from people because of thier skin color. Especially since those who did us wrong are dead, and those who they did wrong are dead. And many of the wrongs done us were legal at the time. And the constitution thankfully does not allow for post hoc lawmaking (which means that something cannot be made illegal after it happens, it must have been illegal at the time of occurance).
However, there are folks who we should go after, such as the banks that discriminate against prospective lenders because of race. We a=have and are doing that.
So please stop stop with the "you obviously cannot uderstand me since you disagree with me" argument. It is as hollow as the belief that you can tax your way out of a problem.