“I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind,” he said, according to a transcript of the interview that was released on Wednesday.
Heresy! Everyone knows it's because The Man is holding them down!
He added that helping people may not better their lives.
Years (decades?) ago, then radio host Ken Hamblin offered listeners a"Certificate of Absolution of White Guilt", saying 'the best thing white people could do would be to
stop helping so much.' Give a man a fish, and all that.
“You take somebody with the wrong mind-set, you can give them everything in the world — they’ll work their way right back down to the bottom,” he said.
Yep.
