Rambi,
I am extremely insulted by your LOL at "me and my friends".
The projects we hung out at were very typical of your "statistical averages". Most of the people living in this relatively huge project complex were "African-American" and "Hispanic", with a few "white" families and elderly folks "stuck" there as you would say. You are certainly coming across as a little bit pompous here on this particular subject.
"Ghetto mobility" is also directly related to substance abuse and just plain laziness in many cases. If people make the wrong decisions and do not have the guts to work their way up in the labor force, what do you expect, miracles? Unfortunately, some of those people would be "hopeless" under almost any system you could think up, except under a complete "welfare state", and even then would waste what was given to them. So how does this relate to Elian? Do you think he would end up in what's left of the projects in this country?
As far as being embarrassed to be an American these days, that is directly related to the current state of the American people and has nothing to do with our constitution, Bill of Rights, or other traditional American values, just to set the record straight. It is the people I am ashamed of, but since a country is basically it's people, right now, I am ashamed to be an American. Yogi |
