<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>philtickelson wrote:</div>
https://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/why-rich-kids-become-rich-adults-and-poor-kids-become-poor-adults/
That article was a waste of 30seconds.
Agreed it’s the commies though, red flag with red nation…. coincidence I think not 
What about it was a waste? Just trying to continue to articulate that it’s not as easy as ‘people just need to work hard, they have every opportunity we do.’
A lot of people just seem to dismiss that growing up in poverty makes it exponentially harder to make something of yourself. That’s the point I’m trying to get across and I think the article sums that up well.
‘To fix a problem that starts so early in life, it is necessary to start in early childhood. Chetty and Hendren, after finding that the chance of upward mobility is increased if young children are exposed to resources usually reserved for the rich (such as better schooling and safer neighborhoods), recommend housing voucher programs to enable lower-income families to move to better neighborhoods with quality pre-school programs. Otherwise, leaving such traps of inequality unanswered means another generation of children blocked from success.’
How many kids growing up on the reservation have access to better schooling?
for many higher profile job opportunities, currently, minorities will have the edge if all else is equal. Not always, but often enough. HARD WORK can overcome being a victim. Being a victim can be a choice.
But all else is not equal, and that’s the point. The barriers to get an opportunity for that ‘higher profile job’ for a lot of minorities are significantly higher than for someone like me. You’re just offhand dismissing the actual problem. I mean, it’s kind of like saying, “All else being equal, a Mexican ice hockey team has every opportunity to be as good as a Canadian one, they just don’t put forth the effort to be as good,”. Which if course ignores the fact that canadians can play hockey outdoors for 6 months a year, making the access to ice and rinks much easier than in Mexico City.
Am I saying that they should just be given success or anything like that? No, I just want people to apprecitate and recognize the situation they are in. The notion that they have every opportunity that I had is false.
a native american,(hate that term as I was born here too….)will get 1st dibs on any gov’t funding, scholarships, grants, gov’t jobs, etc….over any white guy. My degrees wer earned both by my performance and by cash I paid. No Indian is deprived of that same opportunity. Period. Perhaps the level of effort to leave there way of life may be harder, but it is a hurdle, not an impassable barrier.
My disagreement is with the end part of this. It’s not a ‘perhaps’, it’s an absolute certainty that the level of effort is significantly higher. Calling it just a ‘hurdle’ vastly underestimates the challenge. Impassable barrier? No, but when their barrier is a 30 ft wall and my barrier is a small set of stairs, that’s not ‘equal’.
It’s also not as easy as just asking for money from the government. Talking about college specifically, that requires them to have gone through high school with passing marks, probably taken the ACT/SAT, understood how/where to apply for those grants/scholarships, etc. Who are they getting that information from, their parents who never went to high school? Their friends who dropped out? Their underpaid, under-qualified teachers?
That’s the only point I’m trying to get across.
