Posted on 09/29/2009 3:26:43 AM PDT by Scanian
Donna M. Beegle, PhD, is spending her career explaining to audiences that there is poverty in America, that the solution to poverty is education, and that too often poverty prevents people from getting educated. A few weeks ago I heard Beegle speak at the high school where I work. While the impact of most motivational speakers lasts only a few days, this one was different.
You can get an idea of her qualities as a speaker from excerpts available on YouTube, and from a trailer for "Invisible Nation," a one-hour documentary about Beegle and her family that is in the works for PBS. Beegle comes from four generations of what she calls "generational poverty" and has an undergraduate degree in communication and a doctorate in educational leadership. When she talks about poverty she knows both sides, living it and studying poverty as an academic.
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You do get it, don't you?
Another thoughtless and often repeated mantra of the left. Ask the PhDs in the former USSR who had to resort to turning tricks to eat if the solution to poverty is education.
It’s perfectly clear that black ‘leaders’ like Jackson, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, and big Al Sharpton have done a superlative job of seizing poverty and draping it around the black community’s neck. Oh, and there’s a tag on it that blames whites. Racism? You bet, and it’s paid off for them in the millions.
Vouchers anyone?
People that work hard will almost always do better than people who are just smart. I've seen a lot of very smart, very well educated people make crap of their lives. Conversely, I've seen a lot of people who have a hard time reading a book or doing algebra start their own companies.
I think at one time in our history, a solution to poverty was education. It was also at a time when there were manufacturing jobs and the kind of economy where possibilities for a better life emerged. However, affirmative action ruined all of this because it created a society where everyone goes to college, many of the government dime, and are not necessarily inherently what we used to call “college material.” I recall speaking to a woman from Russia who said to me that because the Soviet government paid for education everyone got a PHd. There were no jobs for them because all jobs were government ones, and only went to registered communists. Education is important to maintain our culture, but with the mainstay of our economy flagging, it is not always an answer to our societal woes.
The media can't take it's eyes off of it's new darling in DC and the Democrat's neo-New Deal "Big, racially conscious federal government does it better" ideas.
You’ve been searching for a Russian bride, eh?
How about dads?
Of course, you are right. I did not really think it out: Dad = money/sperm.
Now can I vote Democrat?
I am from Albany, NY. Same scenario as Russia just on a much smaller scale. Probably more than 20 colleges in the area churning out MBA after MBA, no industry and no jobs or opportunity to be had. Just a whole lotta over-"educated" types littering the halls of academia, the state, the power company and whatever other jobs still remain.
Poor whites need their own “poverty pimp.”
How about that O’Keefe kid? He knows how to play the role and has rubbed elbows with community organizers.
The people that Beegle describes are so beat down that they lack ambition on top of literacy and basic middle-class values of any sort.
They will remain in the underclass if they don’t improve their minds and expand their horizons.
The problem is the present-day education system will only make them more dependant, not less.
I’ve been associated with a couple of churches which sought to evangelize this sort of folks and we had some success in changing lives. More churches should try it but, sadly, not that many want to get down and love the unloveable.
The snooty elites of the DC-Boston corridor probably believe that if you are white and poor you must be some sort of degenerate since everybody knows that whiteys form the “privileged class.”
It would appear that active fathers instill a lot of positive work ethic in their children.
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