re: #361 reine.de.tout

And I’ll say it again -

It “all” springs from poverty, poverty “breeds” these things - that’s an insult to a whole heckuva lot of really good people.

But you just go on ahead with it …

I will. Unfortunately too many of my people, including some family members are stuck in what poverty breeds. I don’t need statistics or social scientists to tell me about it. It may offend your sensibilities and you may not like the word “breed” either. But I think being a member of group that’s been ravaged by a crack epidemic, mass incarceration, mass under education and a 70% out of wedlock birth rate gives me an incite that you don’t have. Poverty doesn’t make people bad or defective, but cycles get created from generational poverty that are harder to break, than emulate. Whether or not people stuck in the cycle are good or bad is not the point. For good or for ill, most people have a difficult time breaking away from their upbringing and environment. Culture and opportunities matter. Again, it’s not either/or, it’s both/and. I never said poor people can’t be good people or that poverty makes people bad. I often makes people sad and depressed. Sad and depressed people aren’t prone to self destructive behavior, even when they are good. I don’t see what’s awful about acknowledging it, if you want to help the poor in a wholistic way.