Government Assisstance Part 2?

Question

Those who feel they wanted to jump all over the 1st one, I brought this topic back to life.. Im a democrat, black male, and live in Chicago now ( highly gang profiled) I offer a suggestion in the last one that might have been to harsh.. But for those who feel that "crime doesnt come from the slums" or that " we need to help as a community " must come from the suburbs and sits in there highchair being spoon-fed not to see the truth in violence that lays its head around the sub-sidized housing. I could give you plenty of examples of where its not safe, HOW about you give me examples of how to make it safer.. --or how you have helped your "murder infected nighborhood" a better place to live. Its in every state you liver in, but how do you get around the problem other than the gun I have in my car. Now Im a pretty big guy, but I dont just run into fights without involving a weapon...so if you can speak from your own experience, then you have no bussiness writing!! Cause you have no idea!

Answer 1

Ok. I speak from this perspecitve. I grew up in the slums. Poor white kid. No money, on welfare. No dad. Mom is a drunk. I got out of high school. Went in the USMC. Served 4 years in the Marines. Learned what living not broke was like. Went to college. In my 3rd year of college, had a car wreck that hurt some people while I was drunk. Went to prison.

What about that life makes me able to make excuses for myself. I don't want to make my old neighborhood a better place. I want to get myself out of that neighborhood. Crime comes from the slums...but not because of black or white or poor. Crime comes from the slums because that is what parents in the slums teach their kids. Crime comes from the slums because you are not a real man in the slums until you have done a strech in lock up - and that is what kids see and try to emulate. Crime comes from the slums because the priorities are haveing spinners and systems, and not making any real progress.

You want to clean up the hood - educate. I don't mean public school kind of education. Teach the children in the hood about personal responsiblity. Teach fiscal responsiblity. Teach priorities. Teach how to balance a check book. Teach how to buy the first house. Teach them about all the free sources of educational money there are out there to pay for college or trade school.

You are right. The slums are dangerous. No one was rounded up and sent there. They all worked themselves there. NOT the kids, but the adults. They had to try to get there. Someone who says otherwise is pandering to the poor. Very few people are born addicts. They choose. Noone is barred from getting an education - the Marines paid for mine...until I was a felon.
In the ghetto, you are crazy if you don't take a gun into a fight. Not because you are weak, or LOP but because the other MF will probably have one. - - - Thats why I don't live in the ghetto anymore.

Answer 2

Your right, it is a scary world where you are. I'm white, also a dem. A few years ago my oldest son was involved in a local project here in Texas to bring Little League Baseball to inner city minority boys. He would pick up the kids in the projects, take them to their local school yard, and practice a couple of times a week. He'd then return them home and pick them up on game nights and return them home.

He told me stories of gangs sitting about 200 yards away watching as he coached the kids as they practiced, and he was scared that his kids would be sitting there in their colors in a few years.

His kids got the word out in the projects to leave him alone, that he was o.k.
Its a systemic problem and it starts affecting the kids at a very early age.