frankj1 wrote:oh, forgot to add that percentage may not be important, but minorities making up a large percent of poor just happen to be the majority without social equity from generation to generation in recent decades...but entire groups of white Americans still never break out of the rut for the same reasons...lack of understanding of the rules.
Much of that is truthy. I started out in a poor, white trash beginning. Lived in a trailer, worked on a farm, chewing tobacco at age 14, lousy and unmotivated in school. I did have a great mullet, a faux leather bomber jacket, and a vocabulary of 100 words, with the talent to place the word "Fock" 14 out of 18 words in a paragraph.
Thankfully, I got dumped in a brutal fashion by a girl. At that moment, I became tired or smelling like cowschit, living with my parents, and drooling tobacco juice.
I didn't have a rule book or connections. I just knew the path I was on was going nowwhere. Decided I didn't want that life anymore. If you want out bad enough, you can pull yourself out of your circumstances.