Comment on "What Really Keeps Poor People Poor" - jonbischke.com

This blogger says,

"That’s of course very important but the critical factor is that people from lower-income families aren’t able to gain access to the same networks that higher-income families have access to."

and

"Poverty is not deprivation. It is isolation."

He quotes from a several sources and looks at a lot of explanations.
However, let's get back to one thing he states,

"Poverty is not deprivation. It is isolation."

The question is

"Why are poor people isolated in the first place?"

How about let's take a look at the African American group?

Could it be "drama"? Has this author ever been around the POOR INNER CITY? e.g. New Orleans? What about Section 8 and MIXED HOUSING? Isn't that an attempt to remove "ISOLATION"?

But more so, at the mixed public school, particularly middle school and up, during sporting events, the players of the same team of the same high school all SIT and TALK with their respective race, the "white" teammates all sit together and all the "black" teammates sit together. This can be especially noticeable with the females as this group are greatly self-segregating.

So, at the middle and high school level, at integrated public schools, even when forced in the same classes, 8 hours a day and at sporting events, the same teammates all sit apart from each other in the stands from a racial standpoint.

But how about the other races, Hispanics, Asian, and Indians? Do they sit in their own racial groups as much as Africans/Blacks? And yes, please comment.

What does that mean? Well it means, forced busing, integrated high schools, mixed housing, seciton 8, etc. can only go so far.

You would think that after spending all this time together, they, Whites and Blacks, on the same team that even "practice" together, could at least sit together at school functions at sports events.

Perhaps, they both just "put up" with each other as they know each others' differences even more so since they interacted with each other on a daily basis.

AND yes, the differences mentioned above in New Orleans and Louisiana (and other Southern states) can be much different than say, California and New York.

Could it be FAMILY? In the African-American (BLACK) family, there is tremendous "drama". No father, don't know who the father is, mothers, who by the way, try to PROVE, that they are as good as the white women and can get a man like the white woman. Black women who say, "I can just as good as the white women, see, look at how many kids I have!"

And by the way, it would be good to know who came up with the expression,

"Black is beautiful"

and for what reason (or reasons) why?

If I remember correctly, isn't there another saying,

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

If (generally) black women have to say, promote, advertise, teach and preach, that

"Black is beautiful"

are black women trying to tell everyone what to think. Then perhaps, the saying should be,

"Beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is whatever the black woman says it is."

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