Let Them Do It Themselves
Many people throughout the world live in some of the harshest, most despicable living conditions on the earth. Whole countries may have less than a few thousand people that actually live in real houses and eat real amounts of food. Countries like Somalia depend a large amount on whether or not people find it in their heart to donate food, money and clothes to them. There are places like that within our own country, which are the focus of The Promised Land, by Nicholas Lemann. These places are called ghettos. These two scenarios are completely different, despite the fact that Lemann seems to classify them as being the same. Although he doesn't outright say this, he writes as if we as Americans should feel the same way about ghettos as we would about any other poor living conditions. This is shown when he states, "The black poor that live in ghettos are among the most poor in the world and ghettos are among the worst places in the world to live." (p 353). I have a problem with this. Though some may disagree, I feel as though Lemann actually puts people living in ghettos in the same category as those in poverty stricken countries. People who live in poverty-stricken countries live in that condition because for them ther
Lemann would like to see an America where the rich give to the poor, and the poor make their lives better not through hard work, but through taking charity from the government. Laziness that begins when ghetto born children are in school and are too lazy to do their work, then after school are too lazy to get jobs to support themselves, and then later on in life are too lazy to get jobs to support their families. When someone in a ghetto complains about not having a job or being able to afford the necessities of life, one can only wonder exactly how hard they have tried to get out. That may have been the case 40-50 years ago, but this country has changed, races as a whole are not suppressed due to their race anymore. Have they actually done everything they can possibly do to try to get out, or have they tried all the easy ways and none of those worked so they just quit trying? I for one would say that many people in ghettos are there because they have not really tried their hardest to get out. As reluctant as the majority of white America was to deal with the issues, it had to be done. It does though; it has much to do with our money. Lemann's theories of how we can get people out of the ghettos thoroughly disgust me. To really know if we as a country are making progress in solving the problems that the migration caused though, is a different story.
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