At one of my local supermarkets, there was a school bus parked with a sign on the side: “FILL THIS BUS with school supplies for needy kids!” Around the same time, some city council members were standing around the doors leading into Walmart, asking people to buy some school supplies and donate them to kids who can’t afford them.
From what I see on the news, the beneficiaries of all this are largely black. But when I was a kid, you never saw all this begging for school supplies. The black kids came to school supplied just like the white ones. I know it may seem uncharitable of me....but I notice this stuff starts earlier every summer, and I’m not getting why black parents suddenly can’t afford notebooks and pencils.
I bet each and every one of them had a cell phone. Priorities?