Hot Stuff: The Poverty Tour

[Smiley and West]

		Hot Stuff: The Poverty Tour Smiley & West announce “THE POVERTY TOUR: A Call to Conscience”, a seven-day, 16-city bus sojourn in search of the truth about America’s poor and working people.

[James G]

I think we all wish conscience would take over the perverse greed that has perpetuated the corporate psyche of American capitalism and abroad.

 

Goodluck my brothers.

[MSKM Presents]

To be honest, I dont like the name of this "tour" It commercializes the harsh reality of the majority of Americans. Im all down for spreading vital information and solutions for our brothers and sisters that are without. The fact of the matter is that they need Jobs, they need a steady income, they need food, they need medical attention. Those that are without these necessities know that the minority of conscience and affluent people are aware of their conditions. They want them to do something about their conditions. Instead of sponsoring a child overseas, we need to incorporate that way of thinking within our own communities.

[p.a. glenn]

EXCELLENT POINT! 

MSKM Presents said:

To be honest, I dont like the name of this "tour" It commercializes the harsh reality of the majority of Americans. Im all down for spreading vital information and solutions for our brothers and sisters that are without. The fact of the matter is that they need Jobs, they need a steady income, they need food, they need medical attention. Those that are without these necessities know that the minority of conscience and affluent people are aware of their conditions. They want them to do something about their conditions. Instead of sponsoring a child overseas, we need to incorporate that way of thinking within our own communities.

[Marion Young]

I think the tour could be a positive thing. The name "Poverty" Tour is troubling, as MSKM stated. A more positive, encouraging word should replace it. The tour should include as a priority to register voters and explain the importance of voting and voting for the person who best supports their needs. This tour will hopefully be about educating the people and directing them to resources to help them. If this tour is about visibility and enterprise for the directors, the mission will hurt the people more than anything else. As I said, this could be a positive thing and I remain hopeful.

 

[armaniny]

NO REAL FACE OF THE SOUTH!!! COME ON TRAVIS

[valerie burris]

Are you coming to DETROIT apartied michigan.

[Sabrina Nelson]

 Are U coming to the hub of the tea party, SC ? The cradle of conservative polonitical ideology.

 The working and poor are running around like hamsters trying get that next crumb of bread because

that'S all they know. We don't need anyone to put a magnifying glass on us, we authentic solidarity and a

means to hone in on the strengths of the people. American style capitalism has been spoon fed to each and everyone of us. The dog eat dog mentality rules. WE NEED AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE STATUS QUO AND WE ALL MUST BE WILLING TO MAKE THE SACRIFICE.

[Miles Scott Vonlogan]

 Yes it should be called what it is.  Because  we make excuse for our politicians. Where Wall Street with other elected  politicians ran The Three Card Monty scam to the tune of 16 Trillion dollars by the Feds. There is no desire to promote the general welfare of the citizenry. That would require some common decency and principles. We have are reach that paradigm where those who have less shall have nothing. Where the  CPI(Consumer Price Index)is being replace by the politicians' CPI(Corruption Perception Index).

Where poor have become the invisible There is declining habit in our politicians  persona for telling the truth about the poor and the hungry in America.There are certain abiding principles that we as Progressive and Democrats will never sacrifice. For those Democrats we elected who sit quietly and do nothing, we find them wanting. They are what we call “Donald Rumsfeld” of the argument . Where space and time is made up of a looped ribbon. Where their so-called principles are nonsense that been spoon fed truth. Is there in balm for the down trotted and the poor? Have redemption become sotto voce of what in it for me?

[Black Thoughts]

I support this movement. Thank God for Smiley & West. See y'all in Chicago.

[Miles Scott Vonlogan]

If you do not see me in Chicago don't be alarmed. There are  as many like me as sand on the beach. Who look back over two scores and 5 years and ask ourselves what happen? The dream was not only deferred. It has turn into a nightmare for those who have  lost hope. Hope have disappeared not only in Bourgeois Chi -Town ,but also in Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam". I have see them in Atlanta laying on street near Martin Luther King Jr. Monument, trying to draw on the strength of a fallen leader on the war on poverty. So into the Battle we go again with a smile on our face and compassion and strength in our hearts. In this  parsec in space  we are all just carbon base life forms.

Black Thoughts said:

I support this movement. Thank God for Smiley & West. See y'all in Chicago.

[Zane(thanksforlettingmein)Walsh]

With all respect to you, Marion Young; of course i am paraphrasing your comments, however...

Marion Young said:

...The name "Poverty" Tour is troubling, as MSKM stated. A more positive, encouraging word should replace it. The tour should include as a priority to register voters...

we must not be afraid of a Poor Peoples Campaign or a Poverty Tour.  and, we must re-enlist many non-voters to the task of reclaiming our democracy before the changes in tax laws (protect the rich and opress all others) evolve into changes in voting laws (jerrymandering, return of poll tax, literacy test, etc.).  great point here about rocking-the-vote, perhaps another Freedom Summer type of movement?

too many of us walk around desensitized to the plight of folks in situations like these - many of us are predicated on tweaking our level of comfort while we should be concerned with speaking out about others' dis-comfort.  what we need now is not love, as in: "i got love for you folks so come and see us on tour", but rather passion - the sort of passion that ignites us to action.  us in the middle (read: underclass) need some catalyst.  Tavis, Cornell, someone else - step into the void and lead, do not simply report/refute/complain/pontificate but work to organize a sustainable movement that we can affiliate with, latch-on to and work for.  is there no more hope for a unifying voice for, of and by the people here in America any more?  I'm happy to see that some remain hopeful, i, on the other hand, am impatient...

respectfully-agitatedly yours,

z

[LibyaWest]

I don't really see any reason for disguising the purpose of the tour by calling it something

else.  It is what it is.