Americans, which is the worst part of your country which causes you embarrassment?
Is it Texas?
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CopperCicada · M
Parts of the country experiencing abject poverty. The life expectancy of men on the Pine Ridge reservation is about that of men in the third world in Haiti. Sections of the South deep in generational poverty. Parts of the Appalachians with not only endemic poverty but opioid addiction. Inner cities that are war zones. It's an embarrassment as we've been full of shit about doing anything about them. Resources to do so are squandered, wasted. Misappropriated. Then cut for being ineffective, when the work has often never started.
4meAndyou · F
@CopperCicada I just made a large donation, (for me), to St. Joseph's School near Pine Ridge. My cousin adopted a little boy from there because both of his parents had died, and his grandmother could no longer take care of him. He returned to the rez when he was grown, (which is full of gangs), got involved with a gang and is now in jail.
It breaks your heart. But the truth is there are some places that can't break free of the toxic cycle in which they find themselves, due to location, jobs, misappropriation of funds, or laws still on the books.
It breaks your heart. But the truth is there are some places that can't break free of the toxic cycle in which they find themselves, due to location, jobs, misappropriation of funds, or laws still on the books.