Originally Posted by waitingtables

I wish I had seen this thread earlier. I am what you speak of here. A liberal (mostly) white 40 year old woman. And I have been to the ghetto. I have lived in the ghetto. I have lived on welfare. I had heroin addict parents. I dropped out of high school. And let me tell you, you are wrong. I now live in suburban New Jersey, with a husband and two children from the same father, who is my present husband and has been with me since I was 19. We are not on any form of assistance, and never have been. We both work and have gotten through the tough times because of our own hard work.

Of course there needs to be a desire for change, and opportunity for change, but it is nowhere near as simple as you make it out to be. Let me ask you, have you been to the ghetto? Are you a white liberal, or a white conservative? Have you walked in the shoes of some of the multi generational ghetto residents?