Pale Rider said:
Boriqua said:
Pale Rider said:
Another thing that proves this is the dumbest "America is racist" fake news story. Most black kids grow up without a father. Who the hell is going to introduce a kid to camping: HIS FATHER, like mine did; duhhhh!
I didnt have an old man. I was living in a high crime housing project in NYC and there was a local community center that raised money for partial funding for kids in the area to go to summer camp.
My mom scraped together some dough for the drastically reduced fee and off I went to sleep away camp for 9 weeks!!!
It was freakin AWESOME! I was out of the projects for the whole summer and felt free. There were other near do wells like me there and gobs of White kids which I rarely ever met in the projects. First week was kind of weird because I kept thinking .. when does the fist fighting start.
I fished with a string on a branch and it was the only time in my life I ever managed to pull a fish out of the water. Camping, fishing hiking outdoor craft and even participated in puppet theater and all these white people I never would have met was an eye opening experience for me and is one of the defining moments in my life.
There are ways to make things better. Calling everything racist helps NO ONE!
I never know if you're agreeing with someone or trying to start something. I'm just pointing out that TODAY, not 50 years ago like in your situation, the vast majority of kids in the inner city have no father figure to pass on stuff like camping to them. It's a numbers thing. Sure there might be a few that get lucky, but not in any real numbers. To say it's racist, is ignoring reality and just making sh!t up to fit the "America is racist" bullshit.
Not trying to start anything at all. I would make it more obvious. Thing is ... I dont buy the tired old excuses. No dad, no this, no that ..... My mom raised 3 boys and I spent the first almost 17 years in inner city housing projects. you know, where all the guys in prison in the inner cities live when they are not in prison.
I was nearly a junior in Highschool by the time I got out.
I was fortunate that my mom took advantage of the opportunity even though she worked STUPID hours in a physically demanding job to send me to that camp or ... I may never have developed a love for the outdoors and honestly ... it was a new experience to be around so many white kids since mostly I saw them on TV and no where else.
The trick was .. the effort was grass roots. The community center offered kindergarten, nursery school and after school programs. It was run by a Black panthers affiliate. Education and success was their mission and they beat it into us everyday. In addition when they canceled all art, gym and music classes at the public school some white hippie college chicks would come into a neighborhood where they were in danger and provided those classes for us when local government said the couldn't afford it. We thought they were crazy.
I believe in altruism, I believe in volunteerism ... give the money to the government to run programs and they steal or misspend the money. It goes into some mysterious vat never to be seen again. Suddenly they are using the money to save endangered turtles.
Im tired of all the excuses including the No father to take you camping.
I do believe in a village to raise a child and it needs to come from the inside. If anything is racist its the thought that poor communities or communities of color cant pull themselves up on their own and solve problems.
Racism is antifa fighting for Black people. Its dems pandering and giving baubles to black people .... that is the real racism!
"Here .. take this free phone and vote for me" that is racism
But big G wants you beholden so they keep giving stuff and offering worthless solutions.
It doesn't work for everyone but .. I am living proof that you can escape with a little help and a bunch of discipline and ass kicking when needed.
I had a great job that paid well that i fought hard for and was much more than I could have ever hoped for. I paid my way through college. My brother is a licensed electrician with his own company, my cousins who grew up in the same place were career Navy. I raised 2 stellar girls both of which are fiercely independent. One works for a military contractor in intelligence the other manages a restaurant.
If me being proud of my success and not making excuses for failure is "starting stuff" Then I guess I am.
Would it be nice to have a picture perfect family with a dad and a dishwasher and stay at home mom .. yea I guess .... but not having those things is no excuse for failure. I watched my dad cut my moms face open with a knife. Guess having one around wouldn't have helped me out much if that was the option.
To succeed you need teeth and a willingness to fight. Not sorry old excuses or handouts. Maybe a hand up but never handouts.
There is a great line in the movie "the Thirteenth warrior" It is similar to a bunch of other literary references but I liked it in the movie.
In it there is a point where one of the large vikings throws Bandaras a broad sword before a battle.
He winces and says .."but this sword is to heavy" to which the viking replies ..."then grow stronger"
I dont want to hear .. and my girls knew not to even think it .. but I dont want to hear ..
but its harder because I am a woman, I am a spic, I am a black, I got no father I got no uncle ....
"then grow stronger"
