Poverty and Education

On Yahoo! Questions I cam across a question that asked if poverty depended on education or educatioin depended on poverty. This question was in regards to poverty in America. I found the views expressed in answering this question be rather interesting.

A lot of people seemed to think that it was an act of laziness. They felt that with a little bit of will power these people could go get educated, get a job, and join the rest of society. This got me thinking about all the thing we've discussed in class towards racism and prejudice. The truth is, we do the same thing with poor people that we do with black, asians, and hispanics. We seem to get an attitude of contempt.

Instead of feeling compassion for them we fill ourselves with contempt. We feel better about not helping them if we tell ourselves that they put themselves on the street. It all does come full circle.