Closing the Wealth Gap - What can we do?

[darling1]

i just feel that you continue to help as many as you can through example, sharing of information and just being willing to step out of your box. you can worry about reaching everybody. it simply wont happen.

Originally posted by Maroon Hawk
Hmm, Chris Rock once said somethin like white people are wealthy, black people are rich. It was really funny when I heard it (actually, the whole stand up act was funny), but it was also true. There are more AA getting rich, but not more getting wealthy. Meaning the money is not staying in the family/community, money goes towards leisure & luxury before the family is on a track to guaranteed fortune...and even if they are/will be wealthy, we won't see it until like their grandkids' kids are adults.

There are more AAs making more money nowadays in science, entertainment, gov't, etc. every day as the doors slowly keep opening. However, we don't have enough people walkin thru these doors. The people who don't walk thru these doors breed people who are given mixed signals on whether or not they can make it (family, friends, neighborhood, entertainment). How do we reach these adults who are disheartened? I don't know myself, but you can't just leave them to infect the rest of the community. For example, whereas you could reach 30 kids, you only reached like 10 because the other 20's parents were hard-headed and/or unproductive to upliftin themselves & their families. So do you let these other 20 families wander blindly down a road of poverty and self-destruction? Don't we need to reach those who won't listen even more aggressively than those who will?


juss a thought...