Tiptop789 wrote:
Actually, your incorrect. Not about apologizing because of your skin color. But because you think there's no relation between s***ery and poverty, s***ery & jobs, or housing, education. The fact that your white only shows you never experienced it or had to deal with it. I disagree with those that want to pay r********ns, but there is a connection.
I call BS. Typical trick, state something as fact that was never said. "But because you think there's no relation between s***ery and poverty, s***ery & jobs, or housing, education." That was never stated or implied.
None living today experienced the Civil War s***ery experience.
My family comes from white poverty. My white grandfather was the underling sharecropper for a sizeable wealthy farmer's land. Grandpa could sign his name with an "X;" grandmother could not even do that. Dad quit school in the third grade. He was the oldest male sibling (of 15) able to walk behind a mule plowing the field by hand. A boy of 9 was doing a man's work. All of his siblings helped too; sunup to sundown.
I remember mom and dad working full time; grandpa helped with eggs and milk from the farm. [Our home burned 3 times when I was a child.] I remember a short time as a child when we got surplus food-powdered eggs, canned meat, dry split green peas, peanut butter, dried milk, cheese, oatmeal. We ate a lot of beans, tomatoes, bread, rarely any meat.
By the time I was 9, mom and dad had a small home, too old for insurance, no plumbing or well; however, it had a wood cookstove, an outhouse, a solid roof, electricity, and a spring. [Once dad had the house, our family was not eligible for any aid, not even food.] Together, they raised 4 children who graduated high school.
What is wrong in this county is not where we came from, our historical past, but the moral fiber that guides us forward. We need the following things to succeed.
• A belief system of good and evil; i.e., religion
• Two parents in the home; children need good role models of both sexes
• An intact family unit
• A strong work ethic
• A high school diploma
• A trade or marketable sk**l
• The willingness to help others
• Self-reliance
• Courage to stand against evil