Avvy Go of Colour of Poverty discusses race and poverty and their connection to student achievement. For TVOParents.com: http://tvoparents.tvo.org/
Source: www.youtube.com
This is from Canada – but applies to U.S. equally.
Poverty
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty
The explosion in the number of needy children in classrooms has profound implications for the nation.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Y’all. Raising the minimum wage is a start to help with this.
White-black wealth gap widens to near record levels
Wealth gap between whites and blacks and whites and Hispanics widens to near record levels.
Source: money.cnn.com
Cop buys mom car seat instead of ticket – CNN Video
A Michigan police officer buys a needy mom a booster seat instead of issuing her a ticket. WXMI has more.
Source: www.cnn.com
Interesting.
This is not how people in the community of Ferguson are treated.
I’m calling out White privilege.
If this mom was not white is would go like this:
- Child Protective Services would take her child away.
- Mom would be ticketed for the infraction.
- Mom would not have money to pay ticket.
- Warrant for arrest of mom is issued.
- Mom is stopped for looking suspicious.
- Cop runs mom’s id and finds there is a warrant out for her un-paid fines.
- Mom is incarcerated until she can be bailed out.
- If she is ever released from jail she is billed for her food, housing and administrative costs.
Did you hear the words ‘tough on crime’ in this story? No.
Did you hear the words child endangerment? No.
I’m calling out double standards, hypocrisy and racism in the U.S. police force.
Don’t Forget About The Hood – Jasiri X
Directed by Emmai Alaquiva, “Don’t Forget About The Hood” illustrates how the issues of the poor and urban communities have been all but forgotten in this current election season, and wonders what happened to all of the energy and organizing that took place in the wake of the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin.
“Don’t Forget About the Hood” was produced in collaboration withhttp://hoodievote.org with Da Ricanstrukta providing the powerful soundtrack
LYRICS
See cause we broke they forget about the hood
So when you vote don’t forget about the hood
I ain’t telling folks don’t get up out the hood
just when you living good don’t forget about the hood
Let’s say we did it for the hood
Put on your fitted and you hood
I’m talking to the those you know that’s living in the hood
that ain’t getting what they should
we won’t forget the hood
We the lost and forgotten called rotten so we tossed to the bottom
Let em tell it we the source of the problem
They call us gangbangers and illegals
Cane slangers of da evil
Like we the main danger to the people
So our issues don’t get the same anger or treated equal
if you not one of them change raisers they don’t see you
So the hood every week is ignored
Before these politicians speak to the poor they reach for the door
now voter ID is the norm
Police brutality’s not reformed poverty’s even more
Tens of thousands of human beings they still deport
And they made it a felony if you come back and get caught
We need to stop cheering for sides like its a sport
Vote for your self and your own hood time is short
Cause doing nothing ain’t a option
Do something get it poppin
Real action over talking
The whole world is watching
So when you vote don’t forget about the hood
Get out and vote but don’t forget about the hood
I ain’t telling folks don’t get up out the hood
just when you living good don’t forget about the hood
Let’s say we did it for the hood
Put on your fitted and you hood
I’m talking to the those you know that’s living in the hood
that ain’t getting what they should
we won’t forget the hood
Do we remember Trayvon or is the pain gone
Do we remain strong or did we move way on
Remember when we all had pictures in our hoods
Did we forget about the hood
Zimmerman’s still free I don’t know about you but it kills me
This murderer could be found not guilty
Remember how we organized fortified for the ride
Polarized but mobilized I thought it was so divine
What happened to that energy we need it now more than ever
Many people kept working I will not ignore their effort
Give voice to the voiceless that’s why I record this message If you really for the hood for who or for what you reppin
That the million dollar question
Millionaires is who we follow but they hollow in they lessons
What’s the point of a weapon pointed in the wrong the direction
If your hood is what you reppin how strong is your connection
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
“While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor. It is a plague of everyday violence.”
Community Village‘s insight:
See on www.barnesandnoble.com
If You Think Only Poor People Need Welfare, Wait Till You See What Really Rich Folks Do With It
Culture of Dependency: Coding Poverty
“In America when we speak of poverty we hear terms such as poor and lower class. These words by themselves mean relatively little but once they are coded they take on the connotations such as unwanted, unusable, unable, less than, bad, and/or unworthy. These coded terms then become concepts unto themselves that when used inspire ideas and notions. For instance often when hear about people being poor and lower class we think of them through the connotations attached and we develop ideas such as the thought that those people to whom these terms may refer are in such a place because they are stupid, undeserving, uncivilized, and/or lazy.”