The Conservative Zone

Lifted from the Letters to the Editor from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution

Monied America lacks moral goodness

Congratulations, monied America: You wanted your gated communities to keep out the poor, to protect yourselves from crime, to separate yourselves from undesirables. You took the high roads and built your gated communities on them so you would stay dry and clean while the stormwaters of filth and despair flooded their neighborhoods.

You did it. You kept out the poor, you concentrated the crime in the poor neighborhoods, effectively ensuring those neighborhoods would remain poor and broken. You separated yourselves from the undesirables.

And then you left them, to die in attics and on rooftops and in the streets and in the disgusting halls of commerce and sports. The richest nation in the world is the most destitute when it comes to true moral goodness. God could not bless this America at all.

SAM MARIE ENGLE
Engle, of Atlanta, is director of the Kenneth Cole Fellowship in Community Building and Social Change and senior program associate in the Office of University-Community Partnerships at Emory University.

Such a wonderful display of class warfare. "The rich keep the poor down." Actually, the poor keep the poor down. From the Black social meme that says, "Learning is a White thing" to the active destruction of the Black nuclear family by Liberals, the only thing in the way of the Black man from success is himself.

And the rich left the poor on the rooftops? It was the armed gangs that did that, firing at the rescuers as they tried to rescue people. I just don't understand that. This is the first time I have heard of this happening.

The rich should let criminals into their gated communities so that they can spare the poor of crime? Hogwash. Like that will ever happen. Criminals will always prey on the weak, even if they have better pickings uptown.

Do you want to know how to cure poverty? You can't. That's the answer, you can't. There will always be a group of people to the left of the bell curve and they keep themselves there. They don't get an education, they have four children out of wedlock from four different fathers, you can't stop this no matter how hard you try. These people have to do it themselves, you can't do it for them.

And the rich do more than you'll ever know. Not only do they provide jobs, by and large the rich donate millions of dollars to various programs to help the poor. The just do it anonymously, because they don't need the ego boost of doing it in front of cameras doing it. Unlike Liberals. They have to constantly prove how much they are doing, and they put more effort into the showing and not enough into the doing.

The rich are, by and large, where they are because they worked their way there. They deserve to live in gated communities because they earned their wealth. They worked 80 hour work weeks, they studied and went to school. They took risks and hard work paid off for them. EIGHTY PERCENT of American millionaires are first generation. That means that they started with nothing and built it all themselves.

So your arguments, Ms. Engle, are bullshit.