Friday, February 26, 2016

"Big White Ghetto" Q&A


What does the average coal miner make (wages per hour)? $25 an hour



Who are some types of people a person might find in the big, “White Ghetto.” Drunks, those who do and deal drugs, people working to get out of there, people that use items such as Pepsi to buy a pack of cigarettes, jobless



Why do you think the author calls it the “Big White Ghetto.” It is a poor and filthy community with the majority of the people being white

 

What does the author suggests “keeps the underclass in place?” Welfare programs and how it prevents people from “trying.”

 

The author suggests that “poverty is the natural condition _of the human animal___.”

 

How does Pepsi play into this? Pepsi is used as a currency in The Big White Ghetto. People buy cigarettes or drugs with cases of Pepsi.

 

List five things/facts you took away from this article.

  1. People use Pepsi as a form a currency
  2. Parents actually pull kids out of school to collect money from Social Security
  3. Women in the drug-economy who give pop or sex for drugs are $12.99. Cheap deal.
  4. Town gossip consists in white ghetto consist of who’s cooking meth or whose meth lab burned down or who’s growing weed.
  5. There are white ghettos after all.

Ted Cruz Scandal

In order to become the President of the United States, you must be a resident for 14 years or a natural born citizen. One of the candidates running for President is under heat for not being a "natural born citizen." According the Constitution, Article II, Section , Clause 5 states that only citizens born in America are qualified to run in America. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, therefore that makes him ineligible according to the Constitution. The little loophole that keeps Cruz in the race is that his mother was an American so it gives him citizenship rights. If you are American in a foreign country and you give at a nearby hospital in a different place, they will still consider that baby an American citizen. His father, however, was a Cuban with no citizenship rights so that's where everyone argues the case if Ted Cruz should still be considered for a Presidential bid. There are no such thing as a "Real American". We all come from a line of ancestors from different parts of the world. Most Americans got European bloodlines but also there are many other continents that people have their origins from. If Ted Cruz is paying his taxes and has done good enough in his political career to run for President, more power to him. He deserves to be running but everyone is a critic.  


Articles: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/cleo-hamel/us-citizenship-problems_b_9070622.html


http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-27/ted-cruz-is-not-a-natural-born-citizen-according-to-the-constitution