Posted by bitty41:
Two things,
Playa I'm sorry but anyone raised in the United States that is of college age and cannot read or write I have absolutely no sympathy for. I don't care who your talking about they should be ashamed of themselves. People need to stop having the attitude that it is someone else's fault that at the age of 18 they cannot read or write. You have to be living under a damn rock not to know that reading and writing is intregal to human existence in this country.
Playa, bitty - life starts when you are born. If your parents where substance abuse free, if they where hard working and responsible, then your whole like has a chance. You can blame it on color if you'd want. But if you come from a broken community, a broken family and no influences, then chances are you will not make it and will ultimately end up poor in all kinds of ways. And that's not really anyone's fault, not unless you want to go all the way back to where your ancestrial line was interupted. Simply, today we are products of society.
Simply said, non of us can blame directly something that was done to our family long ago, way before you where born. The problem with this is 'you will tend to hold yourself' victom to wrongs long ago. So you are either a product of something that was damaged long ago and somehow passed down to the community, your family to you or' you have a chance, because you where given the proper care and nurturing from your parents that would instill a confidence inside of you, so you'd be able to have a better sense when attending school and growing through that process, eventually having an opportunity to maybe attend college and who knows after that.
Niether however does not apply to everyone. There are well to do kids, who also fall through the cracks and end up on the bad end. Difference in punishments? It varies. The other scenario is, just because you may have come from a bad background, you may already have within you enough influence to get you to believe that you can have better in your life. How one's product may have been developed is one thing. The outcome is what matters in the end and when it comes to professional sports, most scouts, executives wouldn't want to take a chance of someone who might be known to have a questionable background. In the majority of cases, they usually draft, sign people who are also up to the mental task of sports participation.
Example (and yes, it's a harsh example, but) some of the greatest athlete's have spent much of their lives in prison. Unfortunately, didn't have enough of what it took to act accordingly in society, to explore one's own talents and entertain. Sports was created out of what was once known as survival for the fitest. I mean from thousands of years ago - life or death. Today it is a business, but in many ways (mainly what we are talking about here) it is sort of once again a survival of the fitest. All in all, it is up to luck, up to the mind of an individual to notice that something is not right. Taking notice of one's surroundings and realizing to ask 'how do I fit into this'? What is this? That luck could be a simple somebody walking by and telling you soemthing that you didn't even know about yourself, that could cause you to take notice.
So if it appears that someone is at fault, just because they didn't take care of business a long time ago, then take into consideration that maybe that person never knew that things could 'occure' to them. What do we do as babies? We take notice of everything around us. We become curious. If you never had that, if your parent never took the time to show you that (and most likely they never had it done for them either) then you'd never know that one could actually think for themselves and ask questions. Poor communities, under those conditions are a 'catch-22'. It's a viscious circle and it's virtually impossible to cure a community of that kind of circle, let alone an individual surviving it. You don't find too many individuals who come out of those environments and at some point in their lives, they eventually end up having problems. Even years after. With respect, I use a form of 'rape trauma' as an example. The effects sometime later.
I think isiah's like that. It's about survival and hopefully enough to develop just enough compassion to live a longer, healthier life, that would fit into and soak up and reflect onto society in what would be considered a normal condition, according to a common sensed natural agreement amongst each other. In other words 'how we normally get along'. Do you guys know this is why comic books were created? Marvel, D.C. both trying to create images of demon like, dark like good-doers, to help inner youth deal with the pressures of growing up in large communites. Playa, maybe you should create stories for comics of disfunctional characters, who somehow become do-gooders, who fight those inner demons in certain 'catch-22' communities. And hire illustrators to create the figures. That one just came off the top of my head!
You'd influence an entire community. A new generation of kids to focus instead of learning victimization all over again. I grew up with Spiderman myself and I love the Harry Potter stories, because I can relate to several characters in the story and it sort of replaces, and lets me experience some of the childhood I missed. Anyway....
Other than that this is not a solution to anyones problems. This is an awareness to how problems became. College and the NBA isn't going to save anyone. Hell' theire trying to save themselves right now. It all starts in infancy. Once you understand that, then you can search for the root of all of your problems. The loss of nurtured love can be very damaging. Don't be a victim. You can't save everybody. You can only try to influence them to think on the right track. Think about all of that. I guarantee you, they'rd be no more talk of college students not being able to read or write.
I'll never trust this' team again.
