Sorry Tam, that fucking sucks with a capital S. Growing up a broke hippy's kid in Oregon and now a fairly well off soon to be wife of a successful man in a very upscale area, I know all too well about the difference in treatment among the classes.
I live in Manhattan Beach which is now a wealthier enclave than Beverly Hills....5 miles to the east is Inglewood, which most of it is a ghetto. While, here, police AND fire respond to calls of a cat in the tree in about 45 seconds, in Inglewood its damn near impossible to get a policeman EVER, nevermind an ambulance if you need one.
Here my son goes to school in a gorgeous building with a whole wall in his classroom that is a sliding glass door that opens up to a gorgeous courtyard where they often sit in the sun and hold class, his school also has shelves and shelves of extra books, this year the parents have already raised over $200,000 dollars for "incidentals" like parties, new flowers, and other nonsense, they have too many teachers and each teacher has their own assistant and their pick of resources.
In Inglewood? One book for every three children, if that, holes in the roof, shortage of teachers and even the ones that are there are not qualified...most have never even been to college. Violence, drugs, unhealthy environments and to top it all off.... virtually no protection from authorities of any kind.
IT MAKES ME SO SICK!
And it's like it is in Inglewood across the vast majority of LA. I should know, when I first got here I lived in a god awful neighborhood in Long Beach, and another in East LA and then Los Angeles city proper.
And that's just schooling...the disparities are shameful in so many ways.
I cannot wait to move away from these spoiled, clueless assholes. As much as I would love to be able to enjoy the benefits of living here, I cannot help but feel guilt and total contempt for these people. Their selfishness and greed. The way they raise their children to be snotty and ungrateful.
I know that's getting off the subject a tad...just wanted you know that I feel your pain and contempt for the bullshit that people with less money have to go through. I know that it is more complicated than that...Socio-economics, Political exclusion, City/State/Federal economic infrastructures that purposefully keep them down, racism...I could go on forever. But, that doesn't take away from the unfairness of it all. And what about the babies? Just because they were born into a certain "class" they deserve to have such an incredibly different existence than their more financially fortunate peers?
See, now I'm pissed...best go cool off.
