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>Two College Degrees Later, I Was Still Picking Kale For Rich People
>While buying groceries for rich people, I realized upward mobility in America is largely a myth.
>Sometimes my mom expresses regret that my grandmother never purchased any of the homes she lived in, even though she had the money to do so. The owners of the Alder Street house offered to sell her the house for $500, but she declined. Because the job she created for herself was illegal, I think she felt she was unable to purchase the home, fearing inquisitions by tax auditors and police.
> I’m concerned that my family’s long-term generational mobility will be compromised, not only by bad choices and capitalism and the prison industrial complex but by my own ambitions, too. I’m scared the project of trying to illustrate how their choices have impacted my own will render them as unconvincingly as the characters in the bootleg films one of my uncles once sold.
How does it feel to know that socio-economic mobility in America is dead pol?
>>68290043
Who gives a fuck?
>>68290043
what are those 2 collage degrees?
>>68290337
That's the sticking point. She majored in underwater basket weaving and feminist dance therapy. That's the problem.
>upward mobility is a myth because i'm not good at managing my finances
something seems fucky about this argument...
Reminder that a black, Hispanic nor Asian person would never be told that they were rejected because of not fitting the culture.
Reminder that in STEM there's enough soft bigotry for these people to get entry level jobs without the necessary five years experience.
Reminder that I'd capitalism is broken, Marxism broke it.
>>68290337
I doubt it's two accompanying STEM degrees.
>>68290263
>Who gives a fuck?
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you fucking cis-gender heterosexual probably-white male? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in womyn's studies, and I’ve been involved in numerous slut walks, having taken over 300 black dicks.
I am trained in drum circle management and I’m the top drummer in the entire anti-fa movement. You are nothing to me but just another racist. I will wipe you the fuck out with my knowledge of Dr. Who, Sherlock and John Green the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth snd you'll like it too, mark my fucking words.
You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of SJWs across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can screech at you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s without using my inhaler.
Not only am I extensively trained in keyboard combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of Reddit's Fempire and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue.
But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury and period blood all over you and you will drown in it.
You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
>>68290043
>upward mobility is a myth because my grandmother was straight felon and she be ballin, nigga
>fuk da po-lice
>gibs me dat 2016
>When I was a kid, I regularly parked myself in front of my great-grandmother’s wood-paneled swivel television that was slowly going bad.
That sounds delightful. My parents didn't have a TV and I've been working at least part time since I was 8, but I don't know what it's like to be poor or have to work hard, because I'm white.
>>68290043
I can't believe that, even after getting a bachelor's in biochemistry and a medical degree, she still couldn't find well-paying work
>>68291397
>I don't know what it's like to be poor or have to work hard, because I'm white.
DAS RIGHT WHITE BOI. KEEPIN DA BLACK MAN DOWN N SHEEIT.
>>68291397
YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE
>people who had to make a living on the fringes couldn't participate in legitimate society because of laws and regulations
>let's grow the government, that will solve this problem of overregulation
>>68291909
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
>>68291494
not uncommon at all. in some places it's so bad that you need connections to find menial work.
>dad and granddad were both criminals, why couldn't they get ahead?
Sorry to post so many times, but I have an objection of some kind to every paragraph.
>When he married my mom and had my younger brother and me, he cut his dreadlocks, his drug habit, and his dreams of a writing career to begin working for the pretzel chain Auntie Anne’s.
Yeah sucks that he didn't get to be famous and had to work a regular job like everyone else. RACISM!
>to supplement his income, my dad sold Amway products, or at least tried to — I don’t know if Amway has ever been a successful venture for anyone.
Amway is a scam, therefore RACISM!
>>68291981
>>people who had to make a living on the fringes couldn't participate in legitimate society because of laws and regulations
Lel, nice try you libertarian autist. This story shows us why we need socialism, not less government. The reason for this girls troubles is because institutional racism is keeping her down in the form of inter-generational economic barriers. Capitalism is slavery.
>>68290043
>muh prison industrial complex!
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>>68290043
My parents divorced when I was 2. My dad is fairly wealthy but due to my mom's mental issues he had no part of my upbringing and had laughably low and mostly non existent child support. My mom worked multiple jobs to support us and avoid welfare, but we were poor as fuck and barely avoided government cheese. Her problems led to me starting to work at 14 part time to buy school clothes. I had no support to go to college, so went out and worked a shit ton to support myself at 18.
I am now 41 and married with 2 kids. Now on our 3rd house we are buying and doing somewhat ok. I had holes in my socks and wore MacGregor for tennis shoes my entire childhood. Dinner was spam or pbj. A splurge was mcdonalds.
Fuck the idea there is no improving your lot in life. Fucking work for it.
>I grew up ashamed of the fact that my dad worked in food service.
People who are ashamed of having lower class jobs are not members of the lower class.
>The process of making pretzels...didn’t feel like a meaningful skill
What the fuck even is this? When I was sweeping floors in high school, sweeping floors was meaningful as fuck. You don't find meaning in life, you create it when you stop looking to media and to other people for approval.
>my dad began to sell drugs
He dindu nuffin doe, right? Dem police raycis?
>Afterward, we blamed the lifestyle — the fast money, the decision not to schlep like the average working man — for his downfall.
The decision to sell drugs does appear to be directly related to his downfall though.
>>68292526
Please don't interrupt.
>>68290043
>join the military
>get free education
>become a doctor
>leave military
>private practice
wow there you go
its not easy but the military allows anyone with a brain and ambition to rise
>Perhaps for the women in my family, the existential light bulb that showed profound truths about their lives didn’t click on like the trunk light of an asbestos-dusty Corsica, revealing an interloper in the dark
This is actually a beautifully written sentence, but it belongs in a novel, not a political article.
>I imagine that their intellectual acceptance of the trajectory of their lives did not come from some outside, showy, mano-a-mano understanding of being utterly stuck. It came for them like it came for me, indoors, gradually, though when it finally arrived it did so with a suddenness that felt shocking.
Living one's life with eyes cast down on the path of least resistance is not exclusive to racial minorities.
>>68293137
Omg, I can't even. Did you just try and fucking silence me you fucking piece of shit neckbeard. How dare you. For millenia, the patriarchy has tried to silence womyn, but not this time and not me. I won't be silenced by you racist, sexist, classist facists. I want to cry so bad. I think I'd better call my rabbi.
>Instead of cleaning some white lady’s house, my grandmother Cissy decided to lord over her own.
I haven't read past this line, but if based Cissy is still alive, she'd probably call the writer a whiny bitch and tell her to get to work. Or are we about to heard how poor Cissy got a raw deal because errbody raycis?
>I see writing as a similarly risky endeavor.
Again, pretty based, but I'm guessing that her cohort of social justice warriors is constantly telling her she'll never make it, and that's gotta wear on a nigga.
>My uncles made use of their options by engaging in street life and an endless cycle of recidivism...my uncles worked with what they were dealt.
Not your dad though, he took up a life of crime because he wasn't hard enough for the pretzel shop, right?
>While shopping at Whole Foods one day, maybe for sliced cheese that a customer requested be cut a level of thickness described as “the size of five cards stacked together”
Yeah, customer service exposes you to some pretty high-level assholes, but it's still not racist that you have to work for a living.
>Shopping is such a personal, intimate experience that takes place in the public sphere. It’s an odd ritual for its mix of the private and social coexisting all at once.
This woman actually is good at sentence construction, but I'm still left wondering how this is relevant in any way to the main argument.
>Any misunderstandings I have toward my dad, brothers, certain uncles, and cousins are my own fault
>An SJW actually used the phrase "my own fault"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU
>and they’re due to the wariness I feel toward the external fighting they’ve done.
Ah fuck, I should've read the whole sentence before getting excited, I should have known she was going to blame whitey
>I’m worried that, no matter how eloquently I describe the men in my family, or how much space I give them on the page, I’ll flatten my loved ones.
I'm starting to realize why she's not making it as a writer. How much of this fucking train wreck is left?
>>68290043
>Anecdotal evidence
Discarded
>>68290043
>I was working for an on-demand grocery shopping and delivery service called Instacart, often referred to as “Uber for groceries.” I was wooed by stories of Instacart’s flexibility, and because I was a freelance writer, I required that kind of freedom. I also liked the idea of working via an app, because in theory, I could do my job without much customer interaction, which is something I’d grown weary of after years in retail. For about 20 hours a week, I worked at Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia shopping for busy people and shut-ins, selecting all of their groceries with the kind of attention and care that hardly anyone uses when shopping for themselves. It was an incredibly intimate job that involved fondling produce to check for bruises and other irregularities, thinking extensively about customers’ meal plans, and intuiting responses for clients who did not want to be contacted about their shopping lists.
In the second paragraph she highlights the flexibility and convenience of her part-time job, something only made possible by capitalism
>I stopped scheduling myself at Instacart after the incident with the laughing customer who mocked me, but I’m still a little afraid that I’ll need to return.
I, too, am afraid of having to wake up and go to work tomorrow.
>It’s difficult to pick up where the women in my family left off, to strike a balance between criticizing the actions of the men in my family and holding on to a deep belief that they truly are not what they do for a living
Yes, they had a sense of perspective, but you were upset about dad working an honest job in food service.
>Our national history is rife with examples of black Americans facing exclusion from labor movements, as well as general workforce discrimination. It’s not hard to see how the effects of these policies have trickled down.
It is not the fault of some 1920s union organizer that your dad decided to sell drugs instead of hanging on to his job at the pretzel shop.
>>68290043
>Two College Degrees Later
woman studies and african rhythms, right?
>I see my writing as both a way into and out of familial traditions. It’s a way to look forward without turning my back. It’s the work I want to own.
This is the fucking conclusion? What the fuck did I just read? Is she upset that she's not a fucking published writer? Are people seriously upset that they have to work and don't just get to be famous? Is this what passes for racism these days?
Fuck it, I'm out.
Wall of text incoming
>My dad was plucked off of the streets of South Philly by a neighborhood gang when he was young, grabbed by the scruff of his neck by the wrong big dogs. At 16, he was charged with murdering a man, and met his own father for the first time in prison. My paternal grandfather “Doc” had reportedly robbed a bank, truly earning his nickname, a reference to the legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday, and was spending a chunk of years in prison.
Her dad was a street nigger."Rehabilitated" and became a family man.After being poor as fuck he started selling drugs, he got capped at the street whilst changing a tire.
>Ever since I can remember, my mom has worked jobs she didn’t quite like. She had dropped out of high school in 11th grade and got her GED when my brother and I were little. At the end of elementary school, my mom worked as a telemarketer, then spent five years as a clerk at various state-owned liquor stores throughout Philadelphia. When I was in high school, she got a job as a front desk associate at a Marriott in downtown Philly. Lateness caused her to lose that job, and another at a Marriott property in Southwest Philly near the airport.
Mother was a whore who got pregnant at 11th grade, and was fired of several jobs by being "late".
So basically, another Pair of niggers get too "lovey" and end up with nigglets whilst young.
Cant have 2 nigglets and jobs at the same time, father sells pretzels shit gets rough and starts selling drugs, then he is capped on the street.
Mother cant do jackshit on her own and goes around jobs.
Also
PLEASE NOTICE THIS FUCKING TEXT.
THERE IS NO EXPLANATION OTHER THAN >2 COLLEGE DEGREES
>NO COLLEGE
>NO DEGREES.
Then complains about being a stuck-up nigger in a Whole-foods market slicing cheese to the rich.
NICE ONE, I AM SURE THOSE LIBERAL-ARTS DEGREES WILL GET YOU A JOB.
>tl;dr Another poor min-wage nigger who complains that THE MAN keeps them down, even though their parents were both street-rats
I fail to find what she says her two degrees are in.
>>68291397
The funny thing is that you've had it worse than the stupid cunt, and you're STILL not at the bottom of the barrel.
Can't tell you how many kids in my ol' trailerpark were intimately familiar with their father's dick. I know 2 for a fact got it when they were 13, and one of them was pimped out.
This bitch wants to talk about oppression. Fucking hell.
>>68291909
YOU ARE A FUCKING WHITE MALE.
On your dreams, Narizón
>>68296492
And not only that, but had the opportunity of a life time to get two(!!) college degrees and still couldn't make her way into a career. Failure is genetic.
>>68297678
No shit. It's almost like throwing more money at the situation won't help.
>>68290043
>used to be underemployed and living in poverty
>make 52k a year and have a nice life
Yeah, nah.
