Saw this vent in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
The “American Dream” is a myth. You will almost certainly be born, grow up, and die, in the same economic grouping in which you were born.
What a booger eatin’ moh-ron! This guy is obviously a loser. I was born into a lower middle class family, prolly in the bottom 20%. Today, my family would be on food stamps. Somehow, both my sister and I managed to move to the top 20% where we are now.
I worked with a black dude here in Atlanta when we were both IBM instructors. He was the son of a Mississippi sharecropper. He joined the Air Force, learned electronics (like I did in the Navy), and leveraged that into a job at IBM. He also learned how to speak and write standard American English. He could speak Ebonics with the brothers but he realized that learning to read and write standard American English would help him succeed. He became an instructor teaching mainframes, and then moved into management. He hated Jesse Jackson and Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton and saw them for what they are, RWPPs who were in it to enrich themselves and not to better the lives of poor blacks. I’m sure he must have voted for Obungler the first time. Not sure what he would make of him now.
Another story about him that I have written before. IBM used to have a program where IBMers would speak at schools to tell children they could succeed. He would go to inner city schools. Not only did he speak well, but he dressed well, and like me, he drove BMWs. Naturally, this well spoken, well dressed black man who worked for a corporate giant was branded an Oreo and an Uncle Tom. He once told me how frustrating this was. Here he was, in his words, “offering a hand to pull these poor children mired in poverty up and all they wanted to do was to pull me down”.
I saw other stories like this in my time at IBM. Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have written many columns about how people don’t stay in the same ranking over the years. Many college students start out in the lowest 20% but over their lifetimes, move up the scale. Many others get out of poverty by getting an education, developing a work ethic and not having children they cannot afford and waiting until after they marry to have children. That alone, moves them from the bottom 20%. My family remained there because my father was an alcoholic and got fired from many jobs on account of his drinking problem.
The American Dream still exists. Unfortunately, with our failing gummint schools, it’s a little harder to succeed, but with hard work and an education it’s still possible.