So what happens when Billboards are put up urging people to take personal responsibility.... ‘Tired of Poverty?’ Billboards with tips to ‘cure’ poverty spark backlash in Wisconsin https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article245105430.html A billboard campaign in Wisconsin aimed at people living in poverty has been removed after outcry from the community. Four billboards across Milwaukee asked the same question in large, bold letters: “Tired of Poverty?” WITI reported. Beneath the question, the billboards offered tips: “Finish school. Take any job. Get married. Save & Invest. Give back to your neighborhood.” At least one of the billboards featured the image of a Black woman next to the text. The backlash was immediate, with many people in the community saying the message omitted the systemic roots of poverty, TMJ4 reported. “Poverty isn’t a Black issue. It’s a people issue,” Markesha Hollins, who saw one of the billboards, told the outlet. “These are big issues. These are systemic issues,” Amber Flanagan Kinlow told WITI. “I felt like it was an attack and not the way to solve the problem.” Community psychologist Hilton Morris told TMJ4 that poverty shouldn’t be discussed without addressing economic disparity. “When you don’t have bootstraps or boots to begin with, it comes off very tone-deaf,” Morris told the outlet. The billboards were removed 24 hours after they went up, per WITI. A representative for Clear Channel Outdoor, the company that owns the billboards, said the ad hadn’t received proper approvals before it went up, adding that it lacked attribution and was removed, TMJ4 reported. “We strive to respect a wide variety of viewpoints on diversity and racial sensitivity in our local communities and work to honor those sentiments in our advertising approval practices,” the company said in a statement to the outlet. “We value our neighbors for bringing this to our attention.” The message was paid for by the Center For Urban Renewal and Education, based in Washington D.C., WISN reported. The conservative group, known as CURE, describes itself as “a non-profit think tank” with the mission of fighting poverty “through the messages of faith, freedom, and personal responsibility.” William Allen, the group’s COO, said CURE put up the same billboards in Minneapolis and Philadelphia, adding that the message on the billboard is one parents typically give, albeit privately, WITI reported. Founder Star Parker told WISN that the five suggestions listed on the billboards helped pull her out of poverty. “I lived criminal activity, drug activity, sexual activity,” Parker told the outlet. “I barely graduated high school literate. I was in and out of the abortion clinic, after clinic. I lived on welfare.” “Poverty is disproportionately hurting poor Black people. So I think it is the opposite of racist to say we should focus on the weakest link,” she told the outlet. “Maybe we should talk directly to the disadvantaged.” Parker added that she’s hired a lawyer in an attempt have the billboards put back up, WISN reported. For now, the billboards have been replaced with “inspirational messages about courage,” according to WITI. (According to the left everyone is a victim. Personal responsibility is meaningless.)
Exactly !!! Stay in school Dont commit crimes Dont have babies before being married Get a job. Pretty friggin simple!!!! Thats a great bilboard. The liberals hate the truth. The victimhood narrative keeps going . Lets derail that train.
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[QUOTE="Here4money, post: 5184034, member: 496573" No poor irresponsible white degenerates I guess[/QUOTE] Oh there are. Thank you for making the point that it is not caused just by systemic racism so-called. I don't have a problem putting that sign back up with a white folk there but then you clowns complain that your victims should not have to appear in the same picture with their colonial oppressors.