ù Quoting Ron Taylor from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
RT> as a share cropper to send me to college... he didn't pay a nickel of 
RT> it, but did keep a roof over my head while I went to school.  (BTW, I 
RT> didn't have a scholarship or a grant either).  Also, I've never been 
Ah, so you got your rent for free, ate for free, just deferred everything to 
a 
loan until you could get a degree and a good job. So, basically, your father 
worked *his* ass off, and you chalk it up to your own personal reliance. So, 
let's see, how old are you? Did you feel uncomfortable being in an 
environment 
that seemed to exclude a large portion of the population, namely blacks?
RT> their parents are the ones talking personal responsibility.  They are 
RT> the likes of you who spout personal "freedom" while sucking from the 
RT> public trough and bitching because someone else
Well, I don't want this to turn into an argument on a personal level, 
although 
that's what it seems you want to do. Just so you know I do no sucking from 
any 
public trough and, unlike you, I don't depend on my parents for food or rent 
or
anything else, I work over 50 hours a week to pay my bills. 
RT> Now come on and tell us all again how classist our society is and how 
RT> it isn't fair that some are poor while some are rich presumably 
RT> because you are poor and don't want to put out the effort to get 
Yeah, that's right. Even if you don't think it is unfair, you can at least 
say 
that the way we work things now is not the only way to do it.
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