Americans in areas such as here in Venice Beach, California, are talking about "Equity" for Citizens, such as housing for locals, etc, if you have been here for generations then you have "Equity" according to the Councilman in Venice Beach and you should have special benefits as a local that newly arrived residents do not receive.
But we cannot let society stagnate, we need to keep educating our people, and building up our communities, so we are building something to have equity in, and not just equity in a ghetto or equity in the work of someone else. We cannot have lazy and ignorant people who feel like they have special privileges just because they are a citizen.
And I hate the drug dealers, and people who are so fucked up that they sell death and suffering to people. The drug dealers are not building any valuable equity in our communities.
In order to have a community in which we can have equity, then we need to build a valuable and educated community. Everyday is a day to be building value in our communities, including helping the homeless, and educating the children, and helping the Senior Citizens, etc.
But, just because you have equity does not mean you are too good to pick fruit, and to work for Sunkist, etc, if the people are uneducated and unskilled then they need to take any honest job, even picking fruit, and those jobs are part of our equity, just as the jobs at Disneyland are part of our equity. And our movie studios and studio jobs are part of our equity, etc. Our opportunities are part of our equity.
When I lived in Malibu I had 2 children in my house, one girl was 8 years old and one was 15, and those girls knew that if they wanted to live in Malibu that they were going to have to work and study hard because they knew Malibu is expensive. The girls were not sitting around smoking pot thinking they were entitled to benefits from equity from being a citizen, the girls were studying hard, and they were doing things to help them to prepare for college, etc. They saw a rewarding life of hard work and reward ahead of them, not just equity from being a citizen. And they were using their blessings to improve their education, etc, for instance they did not have to do labor so they had time to read and study instead and also to volunteer for charities, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.
