I 100% agree with you. The main problem is that the poor in this country have fallen into complacency with the system and don't make the effort to better their lives. The US is the only country in the world where they could get away with that.
Second of all, while I think it is quite accurate to point to the fact that the local government and the local population both had an equal hand to play in the devestation that was Katrina and it's after effects, I think that the writer was a bit too harsh on the black community.
Turning a place into a ghetto in three days. I am not sure about you, but if my home was just wiped out and I just lost most of my daily life, I don't think I would be setting up a white picket fence in the superdome.
Yes, people should be doing something with their lives. Living on government handouts is bad mojo.
Yet, the federal and the state government had significant problems with the after effects. The whole thing could have been avoided if the local government was more organized. But they weren't, and neither were the higher up people.
Poverty is a hard cycle to break. There is still racial tension. These weren't the only reasons for black poverty, but it still plays a role.
Re: fifty fiftyhorseflowerOctober 6 2005, 15:01:20 UTC
Kyle, sweetie how are you?!?!?! I've missed you!!
yea ik that poverty is a hard cycle to break but i guess after working so hard for everything i have right now it just gets me that other people don't even want to try half as hard.
and yea i feel the same way you do about the whole superdome ghetto thing. i mean looking at the bright side of other than being alive after something like that wouldn't be high on my list.
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Miss ya love!
Second of all, while I think it is quite accurate to point to the fact that the local government and the local population both had an equal hand to play in the devestation that was Katrina and it's after effects, I think that the writer was a bit too harsh on the black community.
Turning a place into a ghetto in three days. I am not sure about you, but if my home was just wiped out and I just lost most of my daily life, I don't think I would be setting up a white picket fence in the superdome.
Yes, people should be doing something with their lives. Living on government handouts is bad mojo.
Yet, the federal and the state government had significant problems with the after effects. The whole thing could have been avoided if the local government was more organized. But they weren't, and neither were the higher up people.
Poverty is a hard cycle to break. There is still racial tension. These weren't the only reasons for black poverty, but it still plays a role.
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yea ik that poverty is a hard cycle to break but i guess after working so hard for everything i have right now it just gets me that other people don't even want to try half as hard.
and yea i feel the same way you do about the whole superdome ghetto thing. i mean looking at the bright side of other than being alive after something like that wouldn't be high on my list.
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