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"A word to the wise ain't necessary --
it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
-Bill Cosby
posted by Kate Marie | 4:59 AM | Permalink
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I've seen that clown with the bad teeth and the misspelled first name as a talking head on a bunch of shows. What a whack job.
And as for the increase in poverty in this country. . if our borderes had been sealed, I'm sure that the numbers would be vastly different. But fools like "Doctor West" don't want to discuss the rise in black home ownership, wealth creation and the partial fulfillment of Martin Luther King's dream. He just needs to keep hammering on the negative. Heaven may be perfect, but this world never will be, kind sir.
While entrenched, multigenerational poverty may be worse in many Southern cities than it is in the North, I have to take serious exception to Professor Povertina's statement that "New Orleans was Third World long before the hurricane." Last year, when I visited the Philippines--the real Third World--I saw naked children in alleyways "bathing" in buckets of water, entire families in rags living under highway ramps, and children on trash-rafts floating down polluted rivers. Surely West has seen similar poverty while visiting Africa, so it's irresponsible, even offensive for him to equate pre-Katrina New Orleans with some of the most squalid places on the planet. It's also harmful to the cause of poverty reduction, because if Europeans and Americans come to believe that the slums of the Western world are as bad as it gets, how will they ever understand or respond to the much worse and hopelessly medieval conditions elsewhere in the world?
Amen to that, Brother Jeff.
That's why -- and I hate to say it -- I sometimes think that the reduction of poverty and suffering do *not* actually come first on the good professor's list of priorities.
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