Poverty in the Mississipi Delta (jesus christ)
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beenz
Rap Guerilla
man that shyt looks worse than gary, IN, and gary, IN is a complete shythole.
there's no way I would bring a kid into this world if I lived in some shyt like that. And that's those people's problem. they just keep bringing kids into poverty.pain just keep ringing to in to poverty.
Was just gonna say this. Those hillbillies get NBC specials to showcase their hardship while the rest of the country gets ignored.
wet landscapes
ghost
I tried to find a program like the Appalachian Service Project for the Mississippi delta and there weren't any
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
Aint no place like MIssissippi real talk. If you aint got no family there, there is no reason for a black man to step foot in that muthafukka. The delta is dead because those people the ones that couldn't afford to head north to Chicago or west to California. Some people didn't even know slavery was over cuz they had no outside communication with others
zayk35
Superstar
The land that time forgot .....my family started out there many many yrs ago my grand father was on the run and ran all the way to Tx and set up shop and never looked back
Dirty Mcdrawz
Your girl loves em....
my mom grew up in a house like that in Tennessee. her father was a sharecropper and my grandma and my mom's older siblings would pick cotton during the summer for extra money.
sportscribe
Superstar
The way I see it, it's all media driven. There's a narrative that they stick to, and that is America is the affluent big brother of the world that takes care of it's less prosperous brothers. All of these NGOs have a mandate to send aid to developing nations. They rely on the media to propagate their message and quite frankly, money is an influencer. You will get more sympathy selling the plight of children in Africa than you would African-Americans living in abject poverty. Aside from this, it would be counterintuitive to lobby for aid to a country like America who obviously has an image to maintain. Celebrities are not unsusceptible to influence of the media either. They see these 'poor foreigners' on their TV screens and are compelled to donate. These days you can get tens of thousands of people to donate to a cause with a simple hashtag. People really don't understand how strong the influence of the media can be.
No.
American cities are poor because there politicians block aid, not because they don't have it. The government could print out as much money as it wanted TODAY and send it to these communities but if the politics are divisive then the money never reaches those areas.
Most places in Africa simply do not have the local economies or banking infrastructure to do the same which is why they take on debt from countries like America and institutions like the IMF.
it's the worst.