Oh, The Shame Of It All

Many of America's minority populations are living in squalor, with little opportunity to be connected to the busy world around them.  They live far below the poverty line, subsisting on what little the federal gov't gives them in welfare, food stamps, and medicaid.  We should all extend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters in need, because no child should be without food, clothing, medicine, and schoolbooks.  Get a second or third job, break out your checkbook, and show some compassion!   Just look at the plight of these poor people:

Black and Hispanic youth are more likely to have TV sets in their bedrooms - 84 per cent of blacks, 77 per cent of Hispanics, compared to 64 per cent of whites and Asians

What?  Oh wait, THAT doesn't fit the spoon-fed social narrative being shoved down our gullets day and night by progressive media and teachers!  There must be a mistake somewhere...let's look further...

Black children under 6 are twice as likely to have a TV in their bedroom as whites, and more than twice as likely to go to sleep with the TV on.

See!  The evil dominant white culture is CORRUPTING minority youth by forcing them to have a television in their bedrooms!  That's...that's just evil, folks.

Traditional television watching is by far the most popular activity among kids, with black and hispanic youngsters watching more than three hours and day - but this figure doubles to almost six hours when TiVo, DVDs and mobile and online viewing are taken into account.

TiVo?  DVD?  Mobile viewing devices?  Wow, I wish I could afford all of those fun toys.  Oh, did I say that?  My bad.  Back to the downtrodden, poverty-stricken children in food deserts with holes in their shoes and no coal for the furnace...

2009 Poverty Thresholds, Selected Family Types
Single Individual	Under 65 years	$ 11,161
	65 years & older	$ 10,289
Single Parent	One child	$ 14,787
	Two children	$ 17,285
Two Adults	No children	$ 14,366
	One child	$ 17,268
	Two children	$ 21,756
	Three children	$ 25,603

Children Under 18 Living in Poverty, 2008
Category	Number (in thousands)	Percent
All children under 18	15, 451	20.7
White only, non-Hispanic	4, 850	11.9
Black	4,480	35.4
Hispanic	5,610	33.1
Asian	531	13.3

Well, I'm no hoity-toity Harvahd sociology professor with umpteen toilet-paper degrees and a chip on my shoulder, but even I'm clever enough to see the dissonance between these two studies.  How can a family with one parent and two kids making $17 thou a year afford a TV in every child's bedroom, let alone  TiVos or smartphones?  Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but I've suspected that for quite some time.

The progressives have been keeping their boot on the collective head of dark-skinned Americans since they built the first projects and neatly stacked human souls like so much cordwood.  I'll know we've achieved racial equality in this country not when a black man (with no ties whatsoever to the black story in America) becomes President, but when ALL people are standing strongly on their own two feet with no gov't patronization.  Dignity, respect, opportunity, and self-reliance are the gifts our founding fathers bequeathed to every American.

Wishing my neighbors the best that America has to offer will probably get me labeled as a racist by the shrieking, spittle-flecked left.  It will be a waste of time on their part; I know longer care what anyone espousing progressive memes thinks.  I've come to the point where I swat them away like the irritating flies they aspire to be.  Shoo fly!  Shoo!