Tavis appeared on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” and delivered an unsettling commentary on poverty in America which has reached its highest level since 1965. Watch.
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Awesome! I applaud your voice of advocacy for all segments of the poor in America. I believe you will make a difference. While I certainly agree with the need for fairness, equality, distribution, etc., my question is: Who will be the brave voice of direction to decrease the likelihood of certain segments of poverty? Specifically, who will begin to speak openly about being sexually responsible? Who will speak openly about the need to be responsible with birth control if one is unmarried, or is financially unable to care for a child (no gov’t assistance), or has no education or income-worthy job skills? Who will openly advocate sexual responsibility, because the lack thereof will very likely lead to poverty? Who will advocate taking control over the one thing you have control over: YOURSELF. We’ve got to tell our young people (and 20somethings & 30somethings) to BE SEXUALLY RESPONSIBLE & GET AN EDUCATION! Prevention. Proactive. Progress. If not, in 10 or 20 years we’ll be facing the same problem – just like we were 10 years ago. Thanks.
god forbid any mention of the poor be made without denigration and blame, of course heaped on those too weak and shamed to stand up to this sort of rot.
If there are so many of us, why are we feeling so isolated depressed, discouraged? I am over 50 and have been looking for work since 2008. If you need a profile of someone in refugee status as a result of the war on the middle class, please contact me.
“If there are so many of us, why are we feeling so isolated depressed, discouraged?”
Because we will not unite and fight.
Occupy Wall Street tried. It tried to unite us, tried to cast the problem of poverty into the sunlight, tried to show us how the 1% is responsible for so many of the problems in America – including growing poverty – and how to fight back. But Occupy Wall Street fizzled. Not enough people truly got the message, and of those who did, not enough joined in. Police brutality and a frequently-hostile media took a toll on the movement’s popularity. Events that should have had tens of thousands in the streets had hundreds, and then dozens.
The next big chance we have to unite and fight back is electing Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President. (www.jillstein.org) And yet there are so many out there who have not heard of her, or are too afraid of Romney winning to vote for her even though they agree with her platform and want a way out of the two-party stalemate we’re stuck in. So they’ll vote for Obama – but Obama and Romney are both owned by the same wealthy elite, the 1%.
There’s never a “last” chance. If Stein loses in November, we’ll still have the capability (if not the will) to unite and fight. But what will it take? When will we finally get so sick of being pushed around, bullied, and robbed that we FINALLY start fighting back?
You have my sentiments but what saddens me the most is black people looking to the government to solve all their problems. What about all the wealthy black people why don’t they take a stand. Why want we uplift our own neighborhood instead of leaving and taken our money to the surburbs. Middle-class Americans running to the surburbs abandonen their neighborhoods living next door to people who don’t like them or they have nothing in common with. Look at the motown legacy all the stars this industry created the music is part American fabric. But it appears blacks who have made it distant themselves from their community or kill themselves with their wealth. If black people are going to elvate themselves they need to stop looking and depending on the government. The welfare system is the problems it give the laziest people income and benefits that the working poor can’t afford. Infact the current system tears down the working class. They sell their benefits to the working poor for drugs and cash, using the working poor tax dollars to disrupt homes. I could go on and on concerning this topic but when will smart men and women stop looking to goverment to solve a problem that they created and benefit from.