旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � Greed, Power & Racism! � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � Discrimination - a word used often but rarely understood by most people. � � It may mean something regarding a race or religion or sex; but the truth � � is it means greed and power. Racism and discrimination is perpetuated by � � people desiring greed and power. People who wish to maintain control of � � money and/or others lives and lifestyles. Linked together with crime in � � the streets, giving more power to those already in control. There is � � profit in crime - not necessarily for the criminal but for the police � � agencies, attorneys, court rooms, news media and more. Gangs, according � � some studies, have been supplied weapons by those authorities in charge, � � merely to take the attention away from the civil rights issues and placing � � one's attention on their own back yard and protection of one's self. � � Clearly urban renewal, education, and job corps is not working. In South � � Central Los Angeles alone the unemployment rate (true unemployment rate, � � meaning those without jobs not those merely collecting unemployment) is � � 55% in the Black community alone. Yet near by a new freeway is being � � built, the Century Freeway - but the workers consist of mostly workers from� � other states, not California. Only two workers are from the nearby comm- � � unity. From the windows of the Martin Luther King hospital one can see � � the vision of the 1990's being built - a new city jail. The Black man � � already holds 30% of the space in the jails in the city of Los Angeles. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � Greed, Power, & Racism � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � But when you are a poor man, unemployed, attempting to provide for your � � family and do the right thing what is left for you to do than steal bread � � and milk for your child. I would certainly do the same if need be. � � But what is the true problem here? Is it racism or greed? I think it � � greed - since racism is something that must be taught and learned. When � � one watches two children playing together, one white and one black, you � � can see that racism is something learned later in life from adults. Why? � � Because someone else taught them - and so the snowball effect begins. � � Well, it is time to heat things up and stop that snowball from rolling. � � It starts with you and with me. I'm not going to attempt to cover all the � � reasons why I think racism is stupid and generally something that is � � continued by the uneducated/ignorant individual - I'm only going to say one� � word to you that eliminates all prejudice, racism, and discrimination - � � humans. That's what we all are - we all seek some dream, have some goal � � and quest in life - we all breath, bleed, die and mourn - we are humans. � � Stop the racism and stop giving power to those greedy enough to attempt to � � perpetuate ignorance and misunderstanding. � � As one t-shirt had written on it, worn by a young black man - There is NO � � peace without justice - inversely There is NO Justice without Peace either.� � Neither can be achieved without brotherhood of man. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸