Mr Bridge:

I have purposefully avoided refering to black people except in quotes from others. I have only named the Asian minority because they have the least precentage of poor people and amongst those poor, the best graduation rates etc.

People try to immediately turn the economic and social issue of poverty into a racial and or class issue. A wedge issue to divide people into different groups that can gain power from the problem rather than fix it collectively.

Straw man issues like "*The US governemnt soends $500,00 on 8 security screeners who speed execs from Wall Street helipad to American's JFK terminal..." when in fact a private security firm is doing the screening and every passenger pays a fee for screening are not useful in solving the problem of poverty. Anybody can use the helipad, not just Wall Street execs. Suppose I said "the US government spends $500,000 on 8 security screeners to speed movie stars from Manhattan to American's JFK terminal? Would that throw the blame for poverty on rich movie stars?