Well, rvastar, if you describe me as an “ignorant and indoctrinated fool” it’s your opinion, and you entitled to it, but it’s funny how I feel that those words describe you perfectly as well.
I’m not even going to respond to your response on my Jena 6 comments, but there were thousands of people there not too long ago that felt the same way I did.
1) The local government does have a lot to do with the state of the two schools I chose to compare, but does that make it right. It wasn’t the local government that passed Brown vs. the Board of Education. Therefore, the federal government should have done more than passed a few laws and left it in the hands of the “local” government to fix, because as we see over 50 years later, it’s still un-finished business and schools are still unequal. While there are a great deal of African Americans in the local government, there is a good mixture of all races within it. So no, it has not been ” made of up of a black majority…and probably has been for the past 20 years.”
2) The area Jack Yates is in is actually in the heart of the medical center here in town. There are certain areas of the neighborhood that have people who are “single parents, high school drop-outs, non-college educated, receiving public assistance, unemployed, etc. ” but don’t all inner-city neighborhoods have their fair share of people like this? That doesn’t mean that their children don’t deserve the same chances as children’s who’s parents are “married, high school graduates, college educated, have never received public assistance and have jobs.” There are also a great deal of professionals (doctors, attorneys, entrepreneurs, educators, etc) that live in the neighborhood as well. There are homes that have been there since the early 1900′s that have been passed down from generation to generation. There are a few but not as many as you would think places where housing is accepted in the neighborhood. The school lays dead in between the University of Houston (my Alma Matter) which is a “melting pot” and Texas Southern University (a Historically Black College, and predominately African American). There are a number of elderly people who are as you would say, “single parents, high school drop-outs, non-college educated, receiving public assistance, unemployed”, but they worked all of their lives and own their little homes and not too long ago, the government tried to make them sale their homes so they could build parking lots for a park and ride to the nearby Reliant and Toyota Center.
You don’t want to comment on my silliness about interest rates and gas, well don’t… Just answer my question, what are you doing that I’m not where you can afford these outrageous prices? I just want to know what I’m doing wrong?
I have know problem with having my world views challenged. They are challenged everyday, on blogs like this, on the radio, and in the workplace. They have been challenged most of my like, I believe you are the one who is close minded and afraid of the challenge to change for the better. BTW: I read the article.
As I said before, I’m not some Angry black woman, nor am I looking for sympathy. I learned a long time ago that people like yourself will never see the “light” and would always be the same and there’s nothing I can do about it. Other than these high gas prices and interest rates life is not so difficult for me but it is for others in my community of all races. My parents taught me the long time ago that if I believe in God and apply myself at all times I don’t need anything from anyone so I’m not looking for yours or anyone else’s sympathy. I’m simply stating my point of view.
You are absolutely right I have been blessed to attain a college education, a full-time job sitting at a desk, I own my home, and be married with two children I don’t need sympathy from anyone/anything. I worked my butt off and earned all of the things mentioned above. But I am in need of being saved from the shape that George W. Bush has placed our country in and I have hope that it will happen. As I know, Senator Barack Obama is the best key I have to attain those things. Apparently, I’m talking to a someone with little or no faith.
We can sit here all day and call each other names, and argue about our opinions but it will not solve the injustices and problems of this nation.
