People waiting for food outside church in downtown Atlanta. Black unemployment, including those on unemployment rolls and those who have given up on finding a job, is estimated at 33% nationwide.
After watching thousands of people running for Section 8 housing vouchers which could take four years to receive, reading reports of immigrant jobs being given to parolees and prisoners, seeing students harmed by cheating on tests, and continuing to witness CEOs living large while layoffs loam, it appears that the administration and Congress hate blacks, the poor, and the middle class.
A hatred for humanity is called misanthropy, and this may be 21st century examples - high unemployment, school scandals, and national debt diversions. At least that's how it appears to me - that our leaders are letting us down. We cannot find jobs while millions of us are facing foreclosure, no health care, and apathy. The powers that be, including members of Congress, members of the Chamber of Commerce, church leaders, and bankers, MUST hate, dislike, or distrust us.
Many high school and college graduates can't find a job, for Christ's sake, and their student loans must be paid. Are our leaders ignoring the plight of poor, educated kids, too? What of their American dreams?
Wasn't this MLK's last campaign, that everyone looking should be able to find a decent job to house and feed family? "The diehards realize they are standing at the dying point, that the system is at its dying point, and this is the last way to try to hold on to the old order," MLK said in 1963.
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FYI: The U.S. Census estimates that in 2009, 18.7% of the Dallas County, Texas population lived below the poverty line. To watch a video of people racing for low income housing, go to:
http://www.grm780.com/the_granemporium/2011/07/section-8-vouchers-15000-people-running-to-get-a-cheap-housing-in-dallas-tx.html#_
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Anonymous wrote: "What about the rich being thieves?"
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