Chapter 2 was a breakdown and history on what is believed to be legitimate reasons for poverty and social inequality. At the beginning of chapter 2 it states "Poverty was considered part of natural social order and was not necessarily taken as defect of the social structure" (Seccombe p. 29) I disagree with this statement, because I believe poverty exist from capitalism and that the past and current system of the U.S. is set for certain people (whites) to prosper. Some people state that my generation has the torch for a possible chance of a new and equal society, I say its a lie because the elite ones that control the wealth now have sons and daughters, godsons and daughter, grand daughters and sons or someone that is part of the family somehow that will obtain the power, wealth and control from inheritance. The model of work hard to obtain your goal or goals has always been false in my eyes, it has always been and still is about who you know.
Later in the chapter it goes briefly into the history of cash assistance which solely purpose was suppose to help and support the ones in much need. All these government assistance programs purpose was to eliminate financial hardship, but form certain tactics that resulted in discrimination and excluded minorities from receiving assistance compared to the Whites. The statements that was going around was people opting to collect assistance instead of employment, and that people are buying items viewed as not being indispensable for the essential things needed for life. The people that the media and the wealthy ones are talking of is blacks and other minorities. Is this right? I don't think this is right at all what happen to a right to privacy and what man is in the position to judge what is right or wrong. As i recall I don't remember any human or group over another human or group, so is it right to raid a person home to enforced a policy to what the wealthy believe to be a norm. It seems like the constitution is only upheld when it is in favor to penalized the criminal of America-the opposite of whites. I am not stating that no whites go to jail but i am saying that they are the ones that make the laws but break them or create them to prosper from them. Why doesn't these corporation gangs or these individuals in charge of these bank scandals get sentence? I think these crimes at more serious than what the media portray to be so dangerous on everyday news. Its the black crimes or minority crimes versus the white collar crimes.
Chapter 2 talk about four perspectives that is believed to cause poverty. The four are individualism, culture poverty, fatalism and social structuralism. I don't think poverty exist from culture, fatalism and individualism, so that leaves social structuralism that support my beliefs of why poverty exist. Capitalism only benefits the rich and wealthy, the set rate of minimal wage isn't even a rate to survive off of. I totally believe this perspective because if you look around you can see the socially isolated neighborhoods, poorly perform schools, lack of resources and restrictions of opportunities is located in the predominately blacks and Latinos neighborhoods.
Later in the chapter it goes briefly into the history of cash assistance which solely purpose was suppose to help and support the ones in much need. All these government assistance programs purpose was to eliminate financial hardship, but form certain tactics that resulted in discrimination and excluded minorities from receiving assistance compared to the Whites. The statements that was going around was people opting to collect assistance instead of employment, and that people are buying items viewed as not being indispensable for the essential things needed for life. The people that the media and the wealthy ones are talking of is blacks and other minorities. Is this right? I don't think this is right at all what happen to a right to privacy and what man is in the position to judge what is right or wrong. As i recall I don't remember any human or group over another human or group, so is it right to raid a person home to enforced a policy to what the wealthy believe to be a norm. It seems like the constitution is only upheld when it is in favor to penalized the criminal of America-the opposite of whites. I am not stating that no whites go to jail but i am saying that they are the ones that make the laws but break them or create them to prosper from them. Why doesn't these corporation gangs or these individuals in charge of these bank scandals get sentence? I think these crimes at more serious than what the media portray to be so dangerous on everyday news. Its the black crimes or minority crimes versus the white collar crimes.
Chapter 2 talk about four perspectives that is believed to cause poverty. The four are individualism, culture poverty, fatalism and social structuralism. I don't think poverty exist from culture, fatalism and individualism, so that leaves social structuralism that support my beliefs of why poverty exist. Capitalism only benefits the rich and wealthy, the set rate of minimal wage isn't even a rate to survive off of. I totally believe this perspective because if you look around you can see the socially isolated neighborhoods, poorly perform schools, lack of resources and restrictions of opportunities is located in the predominately blacks and Latinos neighborhoods.
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