Guns, Butter, and Led Zepplin

[kandrathe]

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None of you have any right to judge or say how you think it ought to be, this is how it is. It's a dirty, nasty, horrible thing that everybody tries to ignore. Now, because of circumstance, it can't be. Failure is total.  This storm destroyed more than a city. It wrecked a ghetto. A complete system failure with people so indoctrinated and controlled that most are incapable of thinking independant thought for themselves. They did what the government told them to do, and trusted in that.
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You're right. And, yet, I don't want you to be right. I have many friends with many hues to their skins from around US and the world. And truthfully, I still know I'm not color blind, even though I would like to be -- I still need to deliberatly scrutinize my thoughts (instilled in me by my racist blue collar parents). I'm not the white man you are angry with. In my past I've had to fight racism directly on behalf of the people whom I've employed to get them a chance to demonstrate their skills, in order to earn a living. But truthfully Doc, in my life, I haven't seen many people from the ghetto climb high enough for someone like me to help them.

The situation you describe requires two sides, as hopeless as it seems, they still need to submit to the yoke of the system. The exploited and the exploiters. A system designed to milk and herd the disadvantaged, which is not limited to blacks btw, but to anyone who can be snared and enslaved into it. Something needs to change in the ghetto to enable and encourage young people to make a different life, free from that yoke of exploitation you see. It's not like Washington doesn't have their thumb on us all, but for people like me it's not to the extent that you describe.

I don't know what the answer is, but all I know is that for me when I was destitute, and homeless, and without hope I turned to my family which is the only group of people I would ever depend on. The government has done little for me or to me and mine that I liked. I wouldn't turn down the kindness of strangers, but really, I don't understand anyone who would depend on, or believe in something as heartless and self serving as a government.