Helping the Poor

I have been seeing articles and news about the poor this Christmas season. Whether they should be helped or not is a personal choice, most of it based on personal beliefs. However what I find interesting is that many of these people will help serve food on Thanksgiving or give Christmas presents to the poor while during the rest of the year they live a lifestyle that does not lift a finger to help the poor. They talk about it a lot but the action is so little. It really is a dichotomy how people will say or do something just to make them feel better while not doing anything else. These poor people still live on the streets and do not have a reliable meal the other 363 days of the year. Where are these alleged helpers during this time?

Lip service seems to be a common theme in America. They talk reams and reams of words and sometimes get very emotional but yet their actions speak louder than their words. What have they done to get these poor people off the streets? It's like the person who gives a dollar to the homeless man while going on and living his life totally opposite the rest of the time. Do they realize that giving a dollar will not help get the man off the streets?

This is really no different than the person who goes to church on Sunday and acts good during service and a few hours afterward just to wash away the guilt for all the things they do during the week. They lie, cheat, steal, and ruin people out of pettiness and then Sundays they go to church. Somehow they believe this makes them a good person? Somehow they believe they are not going to hell. It is true the Jesus forgives one for their sins but someone who acts unChristianlike during the rest of the week and goes to church on Sunday and then start their cycle of pettiness again on Monday is not going to Heaven. There is no sincerity. Jesus can tell the difference between a phony Christian and real Christian. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few real Christians but these people are far and few in between.

Racism

When most people think of racism, they think of news headlines about white people saying derogatory names to black people but most of these people don't realize what its like to grow up in a black neighborhood. Our family was not wealthy, my parents worked hard to make ends meet. Growing up in black neighborhoods and going to black dominated schools, I was often made fun of by the black students. They called me derogatory names and made funny sounds trying to imitate our language, and they do many more things than that which I won't mention here. This happened on a regular if not weekly basis. Black people want to be treated with respect but they do not treat others with respect. I've even worked with most of them working for the Houston Urban League when I was in high school mowing lawns and trimming bushes. Most of them were lazy and constantly made excuses why they shouldn't work, all the while being paid on the clock. I grew up in a family with a strong work ethic and did more work than most of them combined. Their main trait is that they complain and refuse to do work. If black people want to be treated with respect, they need to be respectful to others.

While there are number of fine black gentlemen whom I had the pleasure of working in my professional field, there are also a number of fine white gentlemen in the world too. I don't see the black people complimenting them when they talk about racism. I will talk about the fine black gentlemen whom I have worked with. Their personality are often a joy to work with and they are usually socially savvy. They are often funny and witty. They overcame the ghetto mentality and developed a good work ethic as well as developing into fine human beings learning to take responsibility for themselves.

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