@rangerrebew@mystery-ak @Cyber LibertyWhy these cities never change:
When I was a small child, we had a veggie garden - I thought everyone in the world had a veggie garden. On Monday, a black woman came to our house and helped my mother wash clothes in the backyard in two big black kettles. I thought everyone in the world washed clothes on Monday with a black lady to help.
The above demonstrates what all small children think - the way their family is, how they live, is the way it is all over the world. Why? Because they are in it and think that is the way it is.
Lucky for me, my family were Christians, went to church three times a week which showed me all people in the world went to church, all families loved each other and all had a good car, grew their food, went to the movies on Saturday evening. I started to read at age three and sat on my father's lap reading books to him. I thought all children did that.
Now, move to the inner city, be a small child there. What happens there is all they know as they begin to grow and it doesn't get any better so that is the way it is, to them, all over the world.
Let me give you an example:
I had to test numerous small children, about five yrs. old, had to give each one an individual I
Q test. Some were from average households, some from poor areas that were not safe. In the vocabulary section of the IQ Test, there was a picture of a knife. The child had to tell me what that was. Children from average households, said something like this, "A knife to cut things." Too many children from the poor area said, "A knife to cut people with." I never forgot that as it showed me small children identify/describe something based on their interaction with it.
Children growing up in the inner city where there is stealing, fighting, killing, think the world is like that. They adapt to that in order to stat alive. For them, a knife is to cut people with.
To me, a knife is to cut the cake, cut the meatloaf.
