To all:

When someone speaks about poor people, children, old people, any group that has ears. They get a message from what is said.

I asked what message was being sent. All I heard was more blaming So I stated what I interpreted the message from all that blame game to be.

For instance if you say kids are not able to learn to read until they are 5 years old you are limiting them.

When you tell poor prople they can't succeed because of this and that, you are not only limiting them but telling them it is futile to try to get out of poverty. Welfare is best for them.

I say give them hope and encouragement. Have faith in them and they will do better. Keep showing the way to self improvement and success.

Treat them like they are helpless without welfare and they will always be helpless and need welfare. I think it is condescending and insulting to poor people.

And I don't need a guided tour of my home town. Am I supposed to leave town and take an airplane trip back?

From a Blog:

TKCal If you were truly an enlightened person as you claim to be, you would take the time to notice everyone's input in the breakdown of African American relationships. Take the time to examine the persona of women. Our parents in the past, taught the daughters not to give up sex to a man with no wedding and no foundations layed for himself and tried to teach the sons to stand up straight in spite of the obstacles. Why is it that the males have a harder time getting around those obsticles. If a person can't make it in this world it is their fault and noone else's. Women are not responsible for men's choices and vice versa. When you grow up and leave your mother, quit trying to find another one. Stand on your own two feet and learn to surmount the obsticles. It's not anyone's responsibility to do it for you. We don't take the time to tell our kids that the obsticles are layed out to everyone in the attempt to keep a wide gap between the rich and the poor and has very little to do with race. We take that issue upon ouselves and the "powers that be" are laughing because we are running ourselves into the ground with our own self hatred so much that it clouds our thoughts and makes it hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Let's start teaching our kids(especially our sons) not to get so hung up on the system and help them to learn to plow right through it with a thick skin and not get the mind-set to look for someone else to carry them through life."