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Originally Posted by T_DC
You can't possibly think that all people across the board have the same opportunities. I'm not even talking race but random circumstances. It's an uphill climb for some while for others it is more of a stroll on a plateau.
It is quite possible to recognize the part that the past plays while accepting that things need to change in the present and future. Being aware of the past and then digging in your heels to modify behaviors despite the past seems like a good way for even more people to move forward, as so many already have.
Look up the mindset of those who are actually in gangs and you see a totally different way of thinking. It kind of reminds me of documentaries on Nazis where behavior that is not palatable to the average person becomes accepted behavior when you're trying to fit in with your new "family". Normally the most vulnerable are the ones who are so easily swayed to do things which so strongly go against the core values of the average people around them.
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Yes, I do believe that people across the board have the same opportunities. You say it is an uphill climb for some while for others it is more of a stroll. How about the child born in poverty who grows up to become a physician? Then we have a counter part the one born of means that meets the same goal.
The child of the physician has a good chance now of being the same or better than his, once poor, father before him, or the child chooses for whatever reason a different path that leads him to prison instead. Whose fault is that? It must be the fault of society or the fault of the father. The responsibility never resides with the person who should own it, but instead blame is always cast on others.
Along side the person in poverty that becomes a physician we have an ivy league that has to perhaps study harder to reach the same goal as the one born into poverty. However, because he is of money, no one seems to notice the hardship that one faced in order to reach the same goal.
If the poor man did not have the same opportunity as the rich man, he would never be (only as an example) a physician. For some it won't matter how much money they are born into, they just won't possess the will to succeed.
Some people focus on what they don't have instead of realizing the challenges as all things can be over come given the right amount of tenacity. The point being, opportunities are there for all, one just needs to have the sight in which to see them. Also, just because a person 'seems' to achieve great things with ease, does not mean they too, did not face struggles a long the way.
Just because a person can not recognize an opportunity, doesn't mean it isn't their for them. And just because a person seems to have an easy time, does not mean, life is made easy for them either.
Now let's look at change. How does change happen and what types of changes are we looking to create? Some one once said and I don't know who to give this credit to, '
in order to have a more ethical and moral government, you have to raise one'. Whoop, there it is.
People talk about the government and politicians as if they are aliens brought here from another planet. Like they are some how not responsible for the decisions made concerning the laws that govern this land. If you want change people, you're going to have to raise it. So...how does change happen and what kind of change do we wish to create? Society is answering that question with each social evolutionary era.
However, as I stated above the child born of the physician who can give to the child opportunities, yet that child chooses a different path. In knowing this, know there are some things we have no control over and we have to look within ourselves to over come the realities of life.
The gangs are the children of society past, present and future. They are born out of the indifference society has for their own.
Yes, T_DC, I have read some about the gangs and it was either the Crips or the Bloods but one formed out of the Vietnam era where soldiers returning home were spat on and rejected by society. Not all gangs are from the black community and gangs are not a recent development, but one that goes back over 100 years.
What does that say about our social changes? We are the same now as we've always been, blaming others for our own short sightedness and individual failings and when it raises up as these gangs have done...change needs to happen.
My personal favorite, it's Obama's fault. He single-handedly brought about the racial divide, worse than it has ever been in the past. When in all reality, one man can not influence, can not brainwash a nation of sound social structure.
We know what to do, we just don't want to focus our attention on getting it done, change, it's hard work and not every body wants to join, that gang.
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. White cops killing unarmed blacks or the black guy that was raping and killing clollege age white girls is what sales. The News media makes Billions off of this type of news.
