| Please, go to the ghetto For everyone who is for affirmative action and the welfare state. For everyone that insists that "social injustices" are at fault for the plight of the black community. Please, take a walk through the ghetto. Explain to everyone how liberal and socially conscious you are , then explain that you understand the social injustices that are keeping them there in the ghetto. Then walk right back out of the ghetto to a standing ovation of praise and applause.
Then wake up from the dream that you are living in, and realize that in the ghetto you would be nothing but a victim. A weak-minded lame rife for exploitation. You would quickly become familiar with the finer points of the reality in which you live. The reality in whice no amount of social reform is going to change the ghetto lifestyle short of handing people government checks into eternity. The ghetto mentality has a vice-like grip upon the people who have spent multiple generations there. In America living in abject poverty is a choice, or the result of a series of poor choices. It is a set of ideals in which hard work and education don't seem to factor in.
This is an open challenge to all of the compassionate liberals out there... instead of sitting around whining to other white people about the problems of the ghetto. Please go deep into the ghetto, and see if you ever come out. Of course no lib would ever have the balls to descend into the abode of these "oppressed" peoples so this a bit of a rhetorical challenge. How do you help people who don't want to help themselves? Why is it societies' job to ignite the fires of ambition in a self-defeating culture? How do you force people who live in the land of opportunity to take advantage of these opportunities? What opportunities are these people actually deprived of ?My point here is this : Where do liberal ideologies meet the actualities of a cruel and unforgiving world?
Disclaimer : Please do not actually go into the ghetto. You will quickly be identified as weak and will promptly be taken advantage of. You probably won't ever come out again, and I don't want to be responsible for that. |