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Poor in America

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What does it mean to be poor? In America it is the worst thing a person can do, besides being black and poor. Growing up in poverty means a life of struggle, prejudice, and missed opportunities.
A life of struggle Intel substandard school systems, crime riddle neighborhood and a lack of positive role models. The low performing school system is one of the major problems that follow the youth their whole lives. Everybody remembers their 1st day of school how excited one was to learn. Over time some of that naturally fades; but the importance of the education does not. For the unfortunate ones unlucky enough to attend a subpar school system. That lesson is either lost or never learned. Let’s fast forward 2 the end of the school day and our youth journey home is filled with images that should come with a MA rating. With crime all around your young and impressionable mind it would be damn near impossible not to be influenced negatively by this environment. After our youth makes it home from his routine walk through a crime infested neighborhood he sets his bag down with no-one home 2 great him; Except for a full trash can and his best friend Dave who says’s “Let’s go misbehave!” Along their way to go play they run into Dave’s older brother Tre. Tre a teenager, whose morals have been warped by a poor life. He believes doing wrong is right and doing right just ain’t cool enough. He in turn passes on his street sense to his little brother who teaches our youth quote unquote “How to survive”.
The prejudice experienced by poor youth is unique compared to other examples of prejudice in America. Disadvantage youth face a stigma of worthlessness and ignorance as they strive to become a contrubing member of society. Let’s take a look at our youth life after graduation. A lot has changed Dave’s older brother is on probation and our youth is entering the real world. Now he is looking for his first adult job and finds out that he is underquilified to work at the local fast food chain. There’re no Grocery stores or other viable business, because he lives in a “Containment Zone”. Which means big chain stores and small business avoid doing business in his community for fear of losing profit. His community with 100k residents only has employment opportunities 7k. The rest are forced to commute or look for other ways to supplement income legal or illegal.
Finally, the missed opportunities imporveesh Americans face is sad and tragic. Most youth growing up in poor neighborhoods never get to experience things outside of their community like higher education and travel. Higher education beyond high school is very hard to obtain for a lot of poor youth due to 2 main reasons horribly schools and lack of funds. Now I should say there are people who make it out and never return but for the ones left behind, they soon find out that their “Mickey Mouse” education will not cut it in college. Some college’s have lower standers to entertrence exams so they can accommodate these students. Which cause a back lash from alumni who feel that these students are taking away a great education from their kids. With proper pressure and threats from boosters some alumni have mange to take away a great education from someone else’s kid. The importance of traveling is under estimated to the quality of one’s life. To be frank, most impoverished youth have never been outside of their city or town. Hell the only way some even see their state is by going to state jail or the armed forces. Without the opportunity to see a different way of doing things or successful people who live well balanced lives our youth will never believe it exist or is obtainable. I would liken this phemonien to “cabin fever” if you will. They have been inside their district for so long to see the world any other way simple would be unreal to them. I stress the importance to put an end to all prejudice, economic and race based; before we destroy the next generation of middle class.

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