...and your knowledge of economics is valuable (I know I've learned a few things here & there), but...


>I don't owe you shit...if I
>owe anyone, I owe the
>people who died to get
>me the rights I have
>now. The Same rights you
>enjoy, what I do with
>those rights is my Business.
>I earned everything I have
>and you had NOTHING to
>do with it. In Honor
>of those before me, I
>should do something for the
>less fortunate as well. But
>it's something I should do......it's
>not a debt.
>
>Unless you helped me Build what
>I have, unless your support
>made it possible.......I don't owe
>you got a damn thing.
>This is what irks me,
>successful Blacks who rise out
>of the Ghetto or ones
>that were Born middle class
>like myself......build their lives with
>the help of their families
>(and a few others) and
>with their own hardwork and
>sweat. Then folks in the
>"community" who didn't contribute a
>damn thing, want to take
>credit for and start talking
>about what they're owed.

you turned me off a little here. I think there's a medium between feeling like you owe the community (or the community wanting to suck u dry) and the thinking you expressed here.

You're right in that we have to educate people to perpetuate these kinds of gains for themselves. We don't know enough about economics. But at the same time, in order to uplift when and where we can, sacrifices need to be made.

And for each one of us who makes it, there are 3 more that die on the streets. Three more who died without making it. Without knowing what I know or having the opportunities I had. I think that needs to change, and that will only change when we feel some sense of obligation.

Yes, the community needs to learn to do for self. No, we should not feel that everyone who "makes it" owes us a piece of the pie, per se. But you sometimes have to look at history. Who/What taught us to look for a savior? Why do we think we're owed? Why are we in the economic/educational bind we're in?

None of that started overnight.



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