COMMUNITY The political and economic hypocrisy evidenced in these facts demonstrate a warranted suspicion of uneven systemic outcomes. Access to an educational process and system that supports a tide that raises all boats is little more than economic fantasy. It is difficult to call it a systemic failure when one can make the argument that the social and economic outcomes are by design. While nothing excuses each of us from the results of our decisions and personal responsibility, it is difficult to ignore the stubborn and persistent manifestation of inequality. Any change in our long-term economic forecast requires a complete reset of a process that benefits some at the expense of many. While there are no easy answers, our road to recovery includes an honest assessment of the challenges we face. The legacy of economic inequality and political hypocrisy is not an accident, it is the result of deliberate forces that serve a function. Our path to empowerment is a realization that there are those who benefit from the exploitation of others. As a result, there are some difficult questions we have to confront. How long will we allow ourselves to pitted against one another for crumbs that fall from a table where we not welcome to dine? Is real collective progress possible in a system that requires exploitation? Is it possible that the people who require our uninformed complicity will supply the resources for our empowerment and their decline? These questions require serious collective soul searching because chances are, we and our children will spend the rest of the lives in system not designed to protect us. And as a result, we find ourselves in an eternal struggle between the haves and the have nots. The hypocrisy is that we are both and neither. Eric Johnson Strategies to Succeed Check me out on social media Twitter: Strategies2Succeed @BeyondSelfHelp1 Facebook: Eric Johnson/strategies2succeed Instagram: dr.eric_johnson (strategies2succeed) July 2019 The URBAN EXPERIENCE 23 RICKI KING Ricki@RootsToBranchesGenealogy.com www.RootsToBranchesGenealogy.com
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