{"id":501,"date":"2020-11-27T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/?p=501"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:26:24","slug":"survived-but-never-reconciled-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/survived-but-never-reconciled-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Survived but Never Reconciled Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Survived but Never Reconciled \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">Part I<\/span><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">How has poverty replicated itself, exactly,<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\"> (so precisely!)<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\"> in every state of the union?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Every city in the US has an eerie similarity when it comes to [seeming] cultural divides which [seem to] over time aggregate to some distinct, predictable, common aspects within the microcosms each city represents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Why does every city have ghetto&#8217;s or inner city areas with strikingly similar demographics? Even family demographics which go back over several generations? How does that happen? \u00a0How did it happen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What is the common denominator which some larger sense of society or government has put into place here (?) &#8211; <i>which somehow caused this outcome<\/i> &#8211; again and again and again?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In every city in America &#8211; over, and over, and over and over, and over again; what did this? [&#8216;<span style=\"font-size: 5.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">welfare&#8217;<\/span>] [<span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">&#8216;welfare&#8217; over generations<\/span>].<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I believe there are common denominators which have become systemic, and there is no simple fix. No one knowingly invited this outcome but everyone is going to need to pay&#8230; dearly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">Generational Welfare, broken policies, selfish corporate leaders, and politicians &#8211; destroyed &#8211; and left crippled &#8211; generations of black* families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';\">*American <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';\">Families of African descent from slavery.<\/span><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">These policies, <span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">[<i>the powers that were<\/i>]<\/span><i> <\/i>provided welfare to generation after generation &#8211; in the same cities, to the same families, to the same groups of peoples &#8211; for generations to the 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 5<sup>th<\/sup> generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Further, Government Welfare, its rules and regulations interweaved intricate policies that rewarded financially &#8211; a broken family structure that perpetuated from itself &#8211; also &#8211; generations of heartache and suffering. What happened is beyond the imagination of human machinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I do not think it is, or was, malicious; it was not some plot with intent beyond petty greed and human ignorance; it was sinful though &#8211; especially not to have the courage to fix it generation after generation. Countless families, countless men, women, and children &#8211; over too many years &#8211; were decimated!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I heard a sentence above all the din during the George Floyd memorials:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We [of African American Decent] Survived Slavery but, but never recovered, never reconciled it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">How true that rang in my heart. Survived &#8211; but never recovered, never healed, never reconciled &#8211; not in a way that gave true hope of a future, as families, and as a People or &#8216;average&#8217; Americans because they remained an entity to themselves as we decimated the(ir) nuclear families [all nuclear families].<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217;&#8230; .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0End Part <span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">I<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next, Read Part II &#8211;<b>Survived but Never Reconciled <\/b>\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230; so much [fair] animostiy through these generations&#8221; &#8230; as they refulsed to assimilate and the cost was very high to them, and our nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Survived but Never Reconciled \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part I How has poverty replicated itself, exactly, (so precisely!) in every state of the union? Every city in the US has an eerie similarity when it comes to [seeming] cultural divides which [seem to] over time aggregate to some distinct, predictable, common aspects within the microcosms each city &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/survived-but-never-reconciled-part-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Survived but Never Reconciled Part I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}