To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/03/23 16:35
Subject: [K-list] where its at depends on where you start [kids and guns]
From: Matertiamat

I can't single out a post to reply to, and this isn't kundalini
related so I'll only rant once. And I realize I'm not talking to
most of the people on this list, but enough.

The next time you feel the need to get all hot on the subject of
other peoples real lives, and how much responsibility they should be
showing, try to remember that you may not know as much as you think
you do. A few questions you might pause and ask yourself -

Have you actually lived in a housing project?
As a child?

Before you say (yet again) "There's no parenting going on" - Are you
a parent? Have you ever had to choose between being home to guide
your kids, and putting food on the table?

Are you educated? Do you have a clue what it's like to NOT be
educated? Do you know what it's like to not be able to help your
kids with their homework? Do you think that would mean you didn't
love them?

Have you actually felt what it's like to not only need to rise above
your circumstances, but to have no idea how to do that, and no one
who can tell you?

Do you understand despair?

Did you overcome deeply established poverty? Are you so sure that
you could have? Do you have any reason to actually believe that?

Do you have any idea the kind of anger an intelligent child feels
knowing that no matter how hard they study and work, how smart they
are, how many addictions and other traps they say no to – at BEST
they will rise to where that middle-class kid STARTED?

And I mean first hand knowledge – don't answer me with your theories
or what you read in the newspaper and think you understand.

Here's a few more –
Do you vote? Did you support your school levy?
Have you ever tutored?
Supported a shelter for battered women?

DISCLAIMER!

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