I had an epiphany on the stilted growth of the Latino and black community economically from poor neighborhoods. Of course, you can make the political argument, So many are so wound up in left wing notion of justice seeking and living life untaught about, and ignorant to, how business works, that theres no cultivated appetite for financial achievement. Not like you see in suburbia where I grew up. Where even Latinos from those suburban neighborhoods whos parents achieved getting there, grow up with same achievement based agenda. It goes deeper than that. Those who come out from the poverty line and become public figures do nothing to change the systemic mental disease. Rap stars and athletes offer a glimmer of hope of achievement through extreme circumstances of being the very few who perform at high quality in the arts or sports to become billionaires. Thats hardly a societal model. And the notable academics like Toni Morrison, Dr. Cornell West, Barrack Obama, or bloggers like Son of Baldwin, use their academically informed pulpits to continue an overly intellectualized version of grandmas philosophy as their foundation. (Grandma philosophy= love jesus, be a good person, get a job, ) They all only spout moralist ideologically useless philosophical points that do nothing to arm the community the way suburbia is mentally armed. Case in point, they have no real heroes and the ones they think they have are sucking them dry with perty talk, but hydrating them with no real manual for life that other communities employ for their children. There are no rebels in the community that challenge the systemic crap like theres been in the white community like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, or Howard Stern. So theyre f*cked in 2 ways. The first, the icons are part of the problem, and 2nd they have no real intellectual rebels to challenge their status quo. Hence, the vicious cycle continues. But I think slowly but surely, things are changing with the millennial generations, so I have hope. Everything Ive said is a disease of age that will hopefully die with those generations. Crossing fingers.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:03:24 +0000
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