runnerboy70 wrote:
Most liberals on here have never spent time in the ghetto....It's a depressing disaster...Groups hanging on street corners openly selling drugs, guys hanging out during the day at liquer stores and corner markets, bars on most windows including inside stores where you pay for things, Trash everywhere, reeks of urine. I'll never forget the time a black friend of mine invited me to his projects apt. for lunch, he told me not to walk underneath the balconies because people would throw stuff down at me.
It's a zombie World
it's a depressing disaster but it's not really third world.
third world means unfinished buildings, electricity that doesn't always work, nowhere to buy stuff, no real businesses, dying of simple illnesses, no medical attention, nothing gets fixed.
None of that stuff happens much in US cities. I mean they mostly have refrigerators, big TVs and even a/c. Drive through Harlem or Compton and everything is pretty tidy and in place, externally.
The urban poor are serious problem but they live far above third world levels of poverty.
To suggest otherwise shows serious ignorance.
Although the 'third world' is a massive place with a lot of diversity.