re: Half-Moon plans to solve social inequality in New Orleans

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And with all that shite, with the Great Depression, with the war, with working conditions that caused him hearing damage and loss of a finger... with all that, he still said picking cotton was the job he hated most

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That description fits my father pretty closely - except he went to WW1 and had to quit school in 3rd grade when his mother died. He was the oldest child and had to take care of the smaller children and also do the assigned chores. He planted the cotton on our small farm, but I swear I never saw him pick a single boll. Yeah - he and I were both raised dirt-poor. My older brother was the first in our line to graduate high school and go to college. I and my younger sister followed suit. My brother was born two days before the stock market crash in '29 - a child of the depression. I was born two weeks after Chamberlain declared "peace in our time" - a child of WWII. My sister was born two weeks after the founding of the UN - a child of the Cold War.

None of us ever asked for a thing and worked hard for every thing we ever had. I get so disgusted with this 'entitlement' generation. I wish they could live a week in the world we grew up in.

Your grandfather and my father were of a generation that the current snowflakes could not even imagine - yet they feel free to denigrate them because, you know, slavery and such.