There is one scene in particular from the Cosby Show that icked me out backed when it first aired, long before any allegations came out. It was actually between Cosby and Phillips. I didn’t see the need for it to be in the show and I wondered why Cosby would want to make a point of wanting it in there. It was when Dr…

Dear Audience Who Gave Cosby A Standing Ovation AFTER All This News Broke: Wanna stand up and clap for him now, dumbasses?

You know what? I’m done being charitable to people like this, because their charity hurts people. It reinforces awful notions about poor people, people of color etc, and we’re supposed to be ok with it because their heart is in the right place? Bullshit. Their heart is often not even in the right place. I work (well…

For a very long time the default with dealing with homeless people with substance abuse issues was to require that they get clean before they could qualify for housing. But what we’ve learned, is that if you house people with issues many of them get clean on their own. In the case of alcohol, some stop drinking…

Lol. I wouldn’t have a roof over my head if I didn’t know how to deal with people in “the real world.” I’m not some kid working from a “I had to survive on Ramen noodles for a month until my student loan check arrived” sense of poverty. And I’m not talking about asking individuals for charity. I’m talking about…

stop it.

I’m on a funding review board for a large non profit. It is kind of striking how hard it is to get applicants to provide measurable outcomes. The best groups can point to a core service they provide, and how they use that service to match a client up with resources from all over. The worst will come in and talk about…

The poor bounce “back” constantly. And “back” is poor. If individual acts of resilience were enough to put a serious dent in poverty that shit would’ve already happened.

That is why the only assistance a lot of Tribes want from outsiders is to allow us to manage the funds they are giving to BIA, BIE, IHS, and other agencies/organizations that act on Tribal lands. We know what our community needs and we can develop programs that will work in our culture and traditions. And, even though…

Relationship Based Organizing is a specific model that recognizes and harnesses the power, and inherent skills and talents of individuals to create and drive the changes they determine are necessary to improve the lives of their families, friends and neighbors.

‘well if he can, everyone can’

‘well if he can, everyone can’

I feel the same about outreach IHS, universities and nonprofits do in my community about diabetes. Um yeah, we know we are more likely to suffer it (and damned near everything else) because, you know, our friends and families are suffering it. We are poor and Native, but not stupid.

Ha. I literally saw one study which sole purpose was to educate people so that they could communicate on the level with public health academics. It wasn’t so that they could address health disparity, community environment, etc - it was so they could use the same jargon as the researchers that did research studies in…

We started to absorb this woman’s idea that changing people’s behavior was the solution to their problems, which meant absorbing the idea that people’s behavior was the source of their problems.

Agreed, I see that too - and as they get older and start building more wealth, it only intensifies. Young people who live in arty, urban neighborhoods start to have kids and move out to suburbs with “better” schools; they start to complain about “my tax dollars” going for this or for that. I think that a lot of high…

Ummmm what? That’s the opposite of what this article says.

"Resilience" is very much the leftist "bootstraps."

Also, now that I have a rant in me. I witnessed groups deliberately change their study’s objectives in order to be seen as effective to funding agencies (non-profits in these cases). Papers would be published saying how the study was effective (no mention of drawing the target around the shot). People would then use…

Did you miss the fact that the author was a foster kid, not a trust fund baby?