#62 Knowing what’s best for poor people
February 10, 2008 by clander
White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day.
They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job instead of studying art at a University.
It is a poorly guarded secret that, deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would be EXACTLY like them. In fact, the only reason that poor people make the choices they do is because they have not been given the means to make the right choices and care about the right things.
A great way to make white people feel good is to tell them about situations where poor people changed how they were doing things because they were given the ‘whiter’ option. “Back in my old town, people used to shop at Wal*Mart and then this non-profit organization came in and set up a special farmers co-op so that we could buy more local produce, and within two weeks the Wal*Mart shut down and we elected our first Democratic representative in 40 years.” White people will first ask which non-profit and are they hiring? After that, they will be filled with euphoria and will invite you to more parties to tell this story to their friends, so that they can feel great.
But it is ESSENTIAL that you reassert that poor people do not make decisions based on free will. That news could crush white people and their hope for the future.
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But we actually DO know better than poor people!
US example: in 2004 they voted for Bush, but now enough of them have come round to the ‘white’ (within the meaning of this blog) point of view for Obama to be elected and Bush to have an approval rating of 28% or lower.
Australian example: in 1996 the working class voters of the House of Representatives seat of Oxley voted Pauline Hanson in as an Independent, after she’d been dropped by the Liberal Party (actually the main conservative party) as a candidate for making racist comments. Much consternation among white people! But in 1998 she was voted out by the same electorate - implying that they’d come round to the white people point of view.
Both times, white people were right all along - if only the poor had listened to us they could have saved themselves a lot of grief and disillusionment.
THAT’S OUTRIGHT BULLSHIT. People don’t WANT to be poor. You get born into a shitty family and you go to a shitty school and don’t have the chances to strive because you have to put food on the table and then you can’t go to college because you need that money so badly so you keep doing a workaday job and you’ll never be able to pay off your debt so you’re stuck in a neverending rut of poverty and strife and you know your children won’t have a better future but you feed them bullshit about “You can do anything you set your mind to. That’s America.” And they believe it and work really hard at school but you just can’t afford university so you have to get a job and go to community college which is moderately better than a high school diploma. And they get fucked over by their rich boss which just continues the cycle.
But nevermind, no. People wouldn’t do ANY better if we were to give them a way to pay for college, open up the market to competition and not have Walmart run the show, make sure people can stay healthy, make it so the military isn’t your only option for college money. No. Everyone who’s poor is a lazy ass and likes being poor.
completely true!
I know that’s right! White people always acting like they know what somebody else is going through when they’ve never been in their shoes. Grow up asking mommy and daddy for everything and tell somebody else what they should or could be doing. hmm. White people!
(LOL! I couldn’t resist. I’m black but I grew up asking mommy and daddy for everything.) I do NOT however, know what’s best for poor people. I realize that some of them work so hard, they can’t get anywhere but where they already are (some of them).
Stuff White People Like: Blogging.
You’re a hypocrite, and you disgust me.
Somebody doesn’t understand satire.
Nice
You should also do an entry called: Berkeley, California.
Between the Marine Protests, the tree sits, and the anti consumerism…It is something that would make a good entry.
Nobody wants to be poor, no one in their right mind will lay out in the cold and die. People that have been to jail have a hard time getting jobs. So there is no such thing as a lazy poor person with a lack of ambition for life or well being. I believe that is just your way of making yourself feel better.
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