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[quote=Anonymous]S[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A great many white families came to America as immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s, dirt poor, with little more than the clothes on their backs.  They were sent to work in coal mines, sweat shops,factories in brutal and unsafe environments.  Many were maimed and killed in accidents and exposure to horrible conditions.

Many of those white families were condemned to poor ghettoes, forbidden to live in other neighborhoods, forbidden to attend certain churches or do business with certain businesses.

[b]Instead of blaming and sitting idly in victimhood, they pushed ahead and worked to make better lives for themselves.  They took advantage of everything available to them.[/b][b]Look at President Obama - he was able to attend excellent universities, able to become an attorney, a professor, a Senator and now President.  He availed himself of what was available and found his way all the way to the top of America.[/b]
And yet here in DC we still have so many who won't even avail themselves of all that is here, especially here in DC with so much that it has to offer - unlike most other cities in the nation - or the world.  When families do not even take advantage of the DC Public Library, when moms don't even read a single book to their toddlers, when kids growing up in DC have not even been to the fantastic Smithsonian museums, when they don't even take advantage of what's already out there, one wonders what more can even be done if what's already there is not being taken advantage of.[/quote]

Please give percentages of those white families who managed to "push ahead" as opposed to those who for whom poverty became generational. And for those who for whom poverty became generational, please give instances of them being denied rights, vilified in media, made to go to separate restrooms, eat in separate restaurants, etc.

President Obama's father was born and raised in Africa, he does not come from a legacy of slavery. That does not negate his experiences as a Black person in America, but he has not experienced generational poverty and was not the product of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents for whom society taught them at every level that they were unworthy. Every race/culture has shining stars; in 2-3 generations Blacks may have many more as well.[/quote]

Read again - as said above, many white immigrants were denied rights - and this was  still going on in the 1950s for them as well., they are  only a few generations in.   Many of them CAME FROM multigenerational poverty and a culture of being taught they were unworthy, going back for 1000 years; many came here as indentured servants, et cetera - with not a penny to their name and having nothing but a pledge to serve a huge chunk of their lives as unpaid workers in order to escape the poverty in their homelands.  They took adversity and worked to overcome it.  There's an old saying, God helps those who help themselves.[/quote]

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