Janiyah Thomas
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Exactly.
But I think their version of doing stuff is making people dependent on the government and less independent.
And I think is where on our side of the aisle, the right side of the aisle, we focus more on like independence and like doing things for yourself.
Like I know what people hate when you say pick yourself up by your bootstraps.
But our country founded on capitalism, like get out there, get in the field.
play your part.
You can't sit there and have this victim mindset and you need a handout and people to help you.
That's not beneficial to any culture, black, white, Hispanic, anyone.
Exactly.
No excuse at all.
Because according to them, it was harder back then.
So.
Yes.
So there is no excuse.
And I think that messaging is like starting to like not resonate with people as much because
There's not many people alive that even experienced it.
Like even my grandmother's at like the tail end of it, you know?
Right.
So it's like, stop.
Why are we still talking about this?