When I was a teacher and one of my students who prolly wasn't as fortunate as other kids, got a new pair of sneakers 👟. Coming to school the first day they got to wear them was usually like the best day of their lives .. A very very different approach to the kids who gets new sneakers all the time .. And then you realize like, this stereotype, that black people are consumed by vanity and materialism, wile very true, it's a very unnatural characteristic of black people ... it is in fact a characteristic of the result of poverty ... When a student would come into class with new sneakers that were hot.. it is though that is the only moment that child was deserving of respect ... Oddly enough standing there as a man, I can remember feeling the same thing in my memories in elementary school myself ..Being right in the middle of it all ... Then for that child coming with the nice sneakers that usually don't have nice sneakers .. He/she is confronted with jealously, other kids experiencing poverty wants to take these sneakers some times .. The kids with money, they wana check to see if it's real and not Payless .. Being a teacher spending thousands of hours with kids of different ages has given me not only an appreciation for kids a million times over .. But it has shown me a great depth of humility, love and much much pain.. So much of them suffer far more than we think and classism, poverty and all these adult issues and greeds has created some children with broken spirits.. So you can imagine them becoming an adult what kind of person they developed into .. Its creating a chain reaction through the generations .. Poverty is the issues and above poverty the real issue shows itself ... And we should all know what that is by now..
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