NEWS: Paris Riots Spread To Twenty Suburbs, page 3

My great grandparents came to America at the turn of the century. They were German and Eastern European. They faced discrimination and prejudice, especially during world war 1. They lived in a filthy Chicago slum with no heating, had barely any food, and this was all before welfare. Yet the people in their neighborhood, despite predjudicem despite poverty, despite the sorry conditions they lived in, did not roam around taking their fruistrations out on others and their property. They busted their asses and crawled out of the gutter by hard work and determination that they did not want to remain in the Ghetto. They did not have generations of slum dwellers.

Opportunity is not something that should be given, it is something that is made by the person willing to actually do something instead of waiting for it on a silver plate. It is not the governments responsibility to give or make opportunity, it is the individual's. The only thing I can really blame the French government for is their idiotic socialism that tends to drive away economic growth and prosperity, and the way it encourages mediocrity.

But I dont sympathize with these pathetic losers. If they are third generation slum dwellers, its their fault. No one is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to stay. If they truly want a better life, they must make it for themselves. If they are too lazy to put in hard work, then they deserve their miserable fate.

I have been to Paris. Its a dirty, smelly city. The cops do have a rep of being assholes. So? Ive seen bad places in the US, and many of those places were made bad because people decided to sit around and blame everyone for their problems. Its no different, pure and simple.

I have also lived in poverty. Ive lived on the streets, in my car, was denied any sort of government aid, and had to fend for myself. It seemed hopeless, as I had barely any friends and family to help me out. And I wasnt alone: there were many who were in the same boat as me. Yet those of us who sincerely wanted a better way of life made it for ourselves. It wasnt easy, it was exhausting and back breaking, but thats the price you pay if you want to be happy.

These morons are only hurting themselves and feeding into Xenophobic stereotypes. They are digging their own graves, and are going to fuel hatred and dislike of Muslims and Middle Easterners. They are deepening any racial chasm that exists.

AQnd they have NOBODY to blame but themselves. You reap what you sow.