The American dream must be available to everyone

[struggle4progress]

<Michelle Singletary>

... As an African-American mother of three children, I've been sporadically crying ever since Election Night. When I tell my children they can work hard and aspire to any job in this country, that statement is finally, finally true ...

Income for all U.S. households has stagnated. But the numbers are worse for Hispanics and African-Americans. "They are likely to suffer first and to suffer more in an economy that does not produce widely shared prosperity," wrote Amanda Logan and Tim Westrich in an updated version of "The State of Minorities: How Are Minorities Faring in the Economy?" that was published by the Center for American Progress ...

... it's going to take more than tax breaks to lift many minorities to solid middle-class status. They need better schools, job opportunities and training. They need access to affordable health care so an illness doesn't bankrupt them. We need to find a way to provide reasonably priced homes and mortgages they can afford based on their net incomes ...

"Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers," Obama said on election night ...

http://www.idahostatesman.com/business/story/564261.html

[meow2u3]

1. Minorities aren't the only ones shut out of the American Dream

Many poor white kids, who we like to deride as rednecks, hicks, and backwater, inbred idiots, became that way because they too have doors close on them, only instead of blaming the bosses for shipping their jobs overseas and tinkle-on economics for shutting them out of a chance to better themselves, they've taken their frustrations out on minorities, a consequence of the fat cats taking too much for themselves and leaving the rest of us to fight for the crumbs. Contrary to popular belief, more poor families in this country are white (in absolute numbers), even though a higher percentage of minorities are poor.

Poor whites, especially those with more brains than money, deserve a class-based affirmative action to prevent them from becoming the newest recruits for white supremacist gangs, hate groups, and domestic terrorist organizations. Sociopathic leaders of these organization play on white privilege and indocrinate them into thinking they're better than poor minorities and these kids fall for the propaganda because they simply don't know any better. Class-based affirmative action has a chance to prevent domestic terrorism because poor whites will have the opportunity to get out of poverty without resorting to violence, hatred, and bigotry. Even though poor minorities will still benefit from AA, the new brand of AA will see not race or gender, but will instead let all poor people in the front of the line of opportunity.