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Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe
...if you think that all the poor need is to get off their asses and stop feeling sorry for themselves then you simply don't have the slightest clue as to what you're talking about.
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Bingo.
The odd thing is that a lot of people that perpetuate this myth are, themselves, poor. Poor conservatives and libertarians seem to grab onto this idea that people are poor on purpose and refuse to let go even forsaking the evident truth in their own lives.
Sometimes you can work hard, make all the "right" choices, and still fail. Had it not been for two scholarships, I wouldn't have been able to afford the tuition for the college I went to. I would have had to settle with San Jose State instead, and I never would have met the professor that set me up with a job out of school. I'd have graduated, but would probably be working some medial job for a relatively (for San Jose) low income. I'd not have been able to buy my home. I'd probably not be poor, but I'd not be as comfortable as I am now. And all because of two scholarships that I could have just as easily not gotten.
BTW, I don't feel white guilt. I'd feel the same way about inequality if I were Asian or Indian or Latino or Eskimo. Or black.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
Is there anyone prepared to make the argument that blacks in America today would be better off if they were in Africa?
If blacks wouldn't be better off, then why the reparations?
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How about this: what would Africa look like today if it weren't torn apart by the imperial West? Do you think it'd be overrun with AIDS, civil war, and famine if it weren't exploited for generations by the US, UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, etc? Of course not.