I'm a product of inner city school systems in NY. While people around me chose to drop out, go for their GEDs, get lazy....I chose to keep focused. By the way, I am a minority. Now I make about $130,000 per year. Everyone was given the same chance I was, so yes I believe it is a choice.
Ugh. No. Not everyone was given the same chances as you. You cannot judge others based on your own life. Your family is different, your experiences are different, YOU are different.
Congratulations on your success, but you should understand you're a VERY small statistic. There is not that much mass stupidity in the World. Like I said, take a class, you'll understand. They'll answer questions for you such as:
1) Why are there gun and liqour stores littered throughout ghettos? High Demand? Not precisely. Someone opens those types of business and further does not contribute to the surrounding economic matrix.
2) How DO the drugs get in there? They don't own boats or planes, they're not the ones bringing it in.
3) Why IS funding constantly cut from the school systems? How is it that the most desolate schools get the most desolate money whereas the richest schools receive the most money?
This isn't rocket science.
Boomstick pointed it out. Sure people can choose to DO something about it. But NO they do not CHOOSE poverty. Ghettos have been and always will be strategically placed, carefully constructed centers for economic security for those whom already have a lot of money. It's all about business.
ex: My dads best friend who teaches in liberty city highschool, (since ur from Fl i think you know how bad the neighborhood is) tells me the problem is the lack of will, and not to mention the environment. Its sad because the ghetto's make it hard to motivate ppl to try and make something of themselves, sometimes it feels pointless.
This is a very good example. You ever wonder why Dade County built the Metrorail? It's the most utterly useless contratpion ever. It runs from one decent neighborhood to another, and right through the middle of the ghetto. Funny eh? It's very simple. Not too many years later the Miami Arena was erected right in the middle of it's route. And on the other-end (North) you have the Airport. The Miami Arena happens to be in Overtown, a place where property value was very low. Now you have this convenient little train, that takes tourists from the Airport, to the Arena, and right back. Safe passage through one of the worst neighborhoods in Miami without having to do shit for the people in that neighborhood. Nothing more.
And it's Seminole COUNTRY Florida. I live in Hollywood right outside the Seminole Reservation (another subject I could go on and on about, a Tribe who never surrendered living on a Reservation ANYWAY), Seminole County though is somewhere on the West Coast or near Orlando, though.
I grew up in Homestead part of my life (which was wiped out by Hurricane Andrew) and Liberty City/Overtown the other part of my life where my Father was...let's just say a trader in questionable goods. Why? Because what ELSE is there to do? And quite literally there wasn't a whole lot else. Even with the Metrorail providing a means to commute, the moment you put on a job application you're commuting from Liberty City it's "ummm, don't call us, we'll call you."
