Opinions: April 1, 2025

To our “poor kids”.

You are here. You were born. Others would have been wound up as sperm on a bedsheet. Take advantage of it. Breather. Go to parties. Look at trees. See the sun. Stick your toes into ocean or lakes. Raise a sick dog. Volunteer to help old people. Quit bitching and focus on a way to make a buck that’s legal. Stay away from drugs. Inner City schools should cross pollinize, bring in teachers with experience in building business, working in trades, being a professor. This could mean fewer jobs for Black teachers or not. That’s an issue. But give students new ideas from Samoans or Irish or Jewish or Italian. It’s often a Union issue or in my view narrow thinking and harmful to kids activists who think blacks should be taught mainly by blacks. Asians will push education for example in engineering, business.

When you are young, especially if not around successful career people, you know little. If you have an idea of what you might like to do, find someone who has done it. A hairdresser, a lawyer, a doctor. Ask for advice. Go online to find him if you don’t know any. Take a bus or check with a Boys and Girls Club or Pathways For Kids.