Even Though

So it's been a while since I wrote, and a lot has changed. I found a new major, and my eyes have been opened to incredible realities within the world and our nation in particular. Because of this I didn't want to stay *as* quiet anymore and to share some of my musings, thoughts etc. from my classes with ya'll. So, here goes.

I’m starting to not understand how these problems don’t get addressed. Because it all circles back to the same thing. And instead of helping we blame them, and design a system for them to fail. Tell them to get off their asses, get a job, exercise, stop selling drugs, be members of society. I need to be more specific. I’m talking about the hood, the projects, minorities, etc. now I’ve never lived there or amongst them but I’m hearing a lot about it. And I don’t understand how these problems are not being addressed. Projects are built downtown. Near poor schools, well really the schools are poor because they’re near the projects. Public schools get a lot of their funding from the local neighborhoods from taxes etc. People in the projects are on welfare. What do you expect when you give them a crappy education, therefore limiting their job opportunities. This is presuming they even HAVE job opportunities near where they live. Because heaven knows that they don’t have a car, or wouldn’t be able to afford drivers ed. And in case you haven’t heard the public transportation isn’t very efficient or good from what I can tell in these areas either. And this is if businesses or factories are even around for them to work in. with all the outsourcing for cheap labor or need for space, last time I checked, factories aren’t being built downtown in cities where people need work. And we’re going to talk about how they are overweight. And white people want to tell them to exercise, eat healthier-fruits and veggies. Well that’s well and great but have you seen how expensive produce is these days? Much less how many times you need to frequent the grocery store to have a regular influx of it. This is presuming AGAIN that there are even good grocery stores in these neighborhoods. Which according to the article there aren’t. and why? Because people can’t shop there, because it’s too expensive for all of the previously aforementioned reasons. Great. Just Great. And yet! We aren’t going to tax the rich. We’re going to continue to better other nations because it is our duty as a privileged nation, and love them because their leaders are mean. Even though not everyone can get a good education in this country. Even though minorities especially blacks are being incarcerated at alarming rates. Even though we are racist and prejudiced against our own people. Even though we as “white Americans” question every person of color we pass on the street. (I’m going to ignore for the time being how inappropriate the term American is for us that live in the US.) And yet these issues aren’t being addressed.