Our society is completely unfair. The racial justice groups may only talk about the racial aspect, but it is unfair for everybody. Unemployment may be in the single digits, the way the government is counting it. But under employment and unlivability of wages is probably around 75%.
What sorts of employment one is realistically eligible for depend upon one's entire biography. No one is going to hire someone for a well paying position, if they cannot identify with their biography.
So it gets into all kinds of things like family stability, child abuse history, medical abuse history, divorces, and then social typing in the school system, and then the standard stuff like education and work history. Very hard for people who have been marginalized to ever have anything like a normative biography.
I can say this, NEVER will anyone in the organization I am building have the experience of 'looking for a job'.
And then if you look at the evidence, like here I can just check in on any one of a dozen religious charities and find lines and lines of people. Some are homeless, some are housed but quite limited in what they can do and so they are on disability. So there are lots of people in such situations, they either pay rent, or they eat. So they go to the charities. And then lots of people just get low wages, so that about all they can afford is to rent use of someone's living room couch. Sometimes even working multiple jobs, and with a college degree. Lots of newspaper articles about these kinds of situations.
Go to these religious and secular NGO's for yourself if you don't believe me. You will really learn some things.
Providing food to more than 1/4 million people every month:
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And then when someone is out of it for enough time, or old enough, or has enough health problems, it becomes very unlikely that they will ever get back into the world of livable wages.
And then there is transportation. Very hard to get around here without a car. So many jobs will be out of reach. And then besides that, anyone without a car is looked down upon, so very unlikely they will get a position which pays a livable wage. Lucky if they can pay rent, let alone afford an automobile. So this locks them in a sub-livable wage tier.
I can also say this, in the organization I am building, this automobile requirement and all the stress and uncertainty it creates, will be completely solved. Your social standing and your sexual desirability will in no way depend on keeping a working automobile. Totally unnecessary as everyone is always involved in life long education and a larger mission, and that alone gives them social legitimacy.
And so when talked about in racial terms, they are probably talking about young people. Well so much of this is tied to economics, and so much of this gets into familial abuses. For many people, the chance that they could ever live anything like what is considered a normal life, is just completely gone. And this compounds as they get older. Members of racial minorities usually hold themselves to higher standards than many White people do, because they feel that they need to disprove racial stereotypes. But no matter, lots of people who will have very little experience ever with livable incomes.
So of course you have young women going into strip clubs and prostitution, because very little else open to them gives them money to live or have a future. And you have young men getting into stuff which is even more clandestine. And then the men get busted, and maybe go straight, but this means living on the extreme low wage and likely homeless margins.
The American Dream was always a myth, but now it is a complete fiction for an ever growing part of the population. And it is not just a racial problem, I would say at this point that it is not even primarily racial. It is a universal problem.
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Just a bad bad economic and legal system.
In the organization I am building, EVERYONE will be completely protected from this. Otherwise there could never be such an organization. It would disintegrate as people compete with each other for social standing. And that is what the people who run our society have always insisted upon, that it be unopposable.
So sometimes it takes outsiders, people who don't take for granted all of the things most of us have just come to accept without question. Sometimes it takes people who have little patience with those who have sentimental attachment to the traditional justifications for authority.
Maximillian Robespierre, best student in his orphanage, given a scholarship to law school, and picked to deliver an address in Latin as a way of welcoming the new King and Queen to Paris.
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LaGaylia Frazier "Night in Tunisia"
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Judy Pace, super cutie from the Blaxploitation movie, When Cotton Comes to Harlem.
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Dizzy Gillespie Quintet-(Jazz 625) 1966
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