Asclepias
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My post still applies... They need to become successful for themselves and their families, then if they want to choose a charity to support then so be it, but you seem to be manipulating them for a larger struggle, where they will have to use up almost every ounce of their energy & resources in this larger struggle that you have chosen for them. It's just like Obama where as people figured just because he was black, then he would be expected to fight in the larger struggle for blacks by using the power of the office to now lift them all up somehow, but it is a fools game because you must always look at an individuals character and not his or her color in the situation, and this in order to know what to do in concerns of good people, and not to empower bad people along with the good people in which is what looking at only color does. The same applies for everything in the world, where as you look for the good always, and you attach yourself to that good, and you help that good, but to base ones actions upon ones color or a race of people is simply foolish. That black surgeon recently that had spoken out against Obama's thinking or doing, well just look at how he was treated when he spoke the truth, is this what you want your kids to face in their lives ?Spoken like a true socialist. How about if the society they choose to help like you say to them that you want them to do, and/or rather it is your wishes for them to remain loyal in this way, ummm doesn't have their best interest at heart in the deal ?
How about if those people that you tell them to make sure and help in their choices made, well what if they use them like MC Hammer was used by those whom he thought needed his help, and what if they become the anchor around their necks because of what you have taught them in this socialistic manor ? Have you not learned anything about what has happened in the case where the feds had enabled and incentivized the poor to remain poor and dependent on them, and so is this the road you want your children on also ? Do you realize how many devils are waiting in the wings for your children to be told to help them, as they laugh all the way to the bank with your children's money afterwards, and then they never get out of the situation in which they had been in or remain in ?
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying. I dont want them voting for someone specifically because it will benefit themselves at the exclusion of others. I want them to have a global view of how their decisions effect the world and not just their tiny little existence and space in it.
There is a reason people are incentivized to remain poor. They are easily duped when dependent. My responsibility is to impart that knowledge to my children and whomever else will listen. I teach my children to pass on that knowledge in action as well as in the spoken word. They already know of the pitfalls inherent in doing this but are built to handle it.
Its all about how you measure success. Am I really successful because I have money, a home, and a car? i don't think so. I think I need to touch other peoples lives and make them better in order to consider myself a success. Of course that includes getting to a point where financially I can do what I need to do. Anyone who thought the POTUS was going to be able to do anything much more than provide an image of Black success for the Black community must not be awake. His job is to help everyone not just Blacks. Taking that same theme of helping yourself before you help others applies to the struggle Black people go through in this country. However, I find that more often than not an advance for Black people benefits everyone in general because it opens doors. Check AA. I dont expect you to understand even a little about how irresponsible and self serving Carsons version of the "the truth" was. To me it just keeps alive the stereotype that Blacks are easily divided. One more negative image for the unaware to absorb subliminally and one more triumph for those that engineer the constant media blitz to tear down the Black community.