In a winner-take-all society we live in, Acorn is the main straw man that the Right uses to give themselves a vehicle to keep the poor and disadvantaged at bay. If you’re poor it’s because you didn’t apply yourself or you didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to resist drug addition, etc., etc. This country was founded by Caucasians and Anglo Saxons which has given us a sense of entitlement and ownership. The problem with that sense is that our Forefathers meant this society to be based on a concept not of ethnics. So when you hear “I want my country back”, it is code for, I wish the poor and minorities would go away so we could return to a society with “our values”. This economic system has long forgotten and does not need the poor or especially inner city folks. So when Acorn has a couple of missteps in a few of its 1200 chapters, all hell breaks loose. There is not one institution in this country that does not have a couple of bad apples, but you don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Former Senator Kennedy asked his colleagues in a senate speech, why do you hate the disadvantaged so much? A good question. We have to come to grips with a bigger question, Are we a me society, or a we a we society? If it turns out we are a me society, WE are doomed.
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ACORN Controversy Heats Up
In a winner-take-all society we live in, Acorn is the main straw man that the Right uses to give themselves a vehicle to keep the poor and disadvantaged at bay. If you’re poor it’s because you didn’t apply yourself or you didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to resist drug addition, etc., etc. This country was founded by Caucasians and Anglo Saxons which has given us a sense of entitlement and ownership. The problem with that sense is that our Forefathers meant this society to be based on a concept not of ethnics. So when you hear “I want my country back”, it is code for, I wish the poor and minorities would go away so we could return to a society with “our values”. This economic system has long forgotten and does not need the poor or especially inner city folks. So when Acorn has a couple of missteps in a few of its 1200 chapters, all hell breaks loose. There is not one institution in this country that does not have a couple of bad apples, but you don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Former Senator Kennedy asked his colleagues in a senate speech, why do you hate the disadvantaged so much? A good question. We have to come to grips with a bigger question, Are we a me society, or a we a we society? If it turns out we are a me society, WE are doomed.
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