Why doesn’t the Gov. do something about the “hood”?
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Question by arianna’s mama: Why doesn’t the Gov. do something about the “hood”?
I really hate how people go on about how these people can overcome it and escape the “hood” but that’s easier said then done. I live near Chicago and have seen every hood in my city. There are NO opportunities whatsoever, all of the people in the hood were born and raised there, no one has decided to just move there. The schools there are horrible and they would rather spend money on some metal detectors then some new books. The only stores they have there are corner stores that don’t even sell basic needs, liquor stores, and fast food restaurants. How can someone make a living like that and get out? They have no banks, no grocery stores, nothing to help these people. Yeah you can argue that the Gov. gives them housing, but have you even seen what is left of the projects? Those places are not even good enough for rats to live in and they are already tearing them down and building up “mixed income housing” where 99% of the housing are expensive condos and townhomes that these people cannot afford! It is such a sad thing to me and I hate how people talk down on these people like its all their fault. You need to take a ride on the west side of Chicago and tell me they have opportunities. Why is the Gov not doing more?
a new job while he cant even get an interview. he works hard as hell and its just depressing. we don’t even live in a bad area, but that was just an example of what its like
Because I know for a fact that people do not want to be in the projects. I have spoken to many people who live in bad BAD areas of Chicago, trying to work, go to school, AND raise their children, its not the welfare they care about (which is never enough anyways) they want to get the HELL OUT. The Chicago projects are for real, I am not even kidding when I say people walk around freely with guns on the top floor of the Ickie’s waiting to gun people down. It’s not even the white people that have the problems, because they do get more help. I have come to realize that the system seems “set up” for Black people to fail. They live in a total different world then we do, they see everything different, they are treated totally different, they grew up totally different. It is 100x easier for a white person to walk out and get a job then it is a black person. Perfect example: my fiance and I (he is black, i am white) have the same degrees, same work experiance, yet it takes me 1 week to find…
The only thing I have said that they can do is not have a victim mentality because that will just keep them down, and keep them thinking negative. I have had long conversations with people who live in areas like this, and they are very smart intelligent people, in fact I have had conversations with homeless people who are smarter then half the people who answer my questions on this site, lol. And sorry, but growing up in a trailer park is FAR more different then growing up in the hoods in Chicago.
I don’t even live in the hood, compared to them I grew up “privileged” and my fam was never rich, but I just know how it is because I see it first hand and don’t view it the way most people do, until you talk to these people, and see what the hell they see, then you can’t say its easy to get out. Thanks to the last answer! Props to you
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Look no further than the new Liberal hero Sonia Sotomayor. She rose up out of poverty and is now going to be the next Supreme Court justice. Dont give me that, easier said than done garbage.
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