Years ago I visited my former Cub Scout Den Mother in a hospital. She had heart surgery. Her son who I grew up with also was there. We both went to the cafeteria. He asked me to go out and he would met me out in the hall. I saw him put a cheeseburger under his coat.
Later when I took him home I called him on it. This was in the 80's when Ronald Reagan was president. He said "Reagan made me do it! Reagan ain't for poor folks."
This guy was that way even when Carter, Ford, Nixon, and Johnson was in office. In high school he would say "Gangster (not gangsta) Love!" and get over anyway he could. He grew up in a middle-class neighborhood before it became "the hood." But he identified with the ghetto.
He is now dead from a liver disease.
My point is quit the blame game.
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Booker T. Washington said:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
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