Granny
Gold Member
Two things: I can remember when Amway was a fledgling company - basically the manufacture of environmentally friendly household products and then expanding to other products. While it was something of a pyramid-type setup, they helped a whole lot of people make money and improve their financial standing. There was a family who lived across from us ... he was a truck driver, she was a housewife and I think they had 4 children at that time. Don't know how they got involved with Amway, but it gave the wife an opportunity to make extra income for the family while she was cleaning, cooking, washing, ironing, taking care of 4 children who weren't even school age...and hubby is on the road all the time. Hell, I bought stuff from her because it was highly concentrated so you could use less and it was very effective and ultimately cost saving. If some of her friends wanted to sell, she could sign them up and get a cut off what they sold and if they could get their friends to sell then they too could take a cut from those sales. None of us were wealthy - it was a nice, clean, rather small blue collar neighborhood.
I think my graduating class was the last all-white class before blacks started attending the school. Brown v. Board of Education was several suits from different cities that were combined and brought to trial under Brown. It was handled terribly from the get-go. Black families had just as many fears for their children as whites did with busing their children from one side of town to the other in the interest of raising black education to the level of white education. This, that and the other theories were experimented with and the end result is that today both blacks and whites have inferior educations, in some cases, half educated and inferior teachers and the whole situation stinks to high heaven.
We need a whole new system. Period.
I think my graduating class was the last all-white class before blacks started attending the school. Brown v. Board of Education was several suits from different cities that were combined and brought to trial under Brown. It was handled terribly from the get-go. Black families had just as many fears for their children as whites did with busing their children from one side of town to the other in the interest of raising black education to the level of white education. This, that and the other theories were experimented with and the end result is that today both blacks and whites have inferior educations, in some cases, half educated and inferior teachers and the whole situation stinks to high heaven.
We need a whole new system. Period.