Reply #125: I don't expect your politics will let you understand this, but your thesis [View All]

[bean fidhleir]

that the poor are poor because they don't have the gumption to get a good education is nonsense. The proof? The Black college graduates working as railway porters around the turn of the century. Their education didn't matter. Skin color, money, and connections were what mattered, just as they do today. "If you're White, you're all right. If you're Brown, stick around. But if you're Black? Get back, get back, get back."

To get rid of poverty? Change the system so that we have as level a playing field as humans can devise. Make sure that everyone, from conception onward, has healthy parents, good pre- and perinatal care for their mum, a clean safe place to live, good nutritious food, all the quality education they can eat.... In other words let's make sure *everyone* gets the same advantages that only the wealthy get today. Then let's see how it works out.