5 Reasons to Stop Talking Sh*t About People From the South and Midwest

[Liberalynn]

274. Ignorance or Intelligence can have little to with an IQ test

You can have one the highest IQ levels and still be challenged in certain areas, or gifted in certain skill sets but woefully lacking in others. For instance on many measures of such things as far as language arts and reading comprehension, my abilities were off the top of the charts. On the other hand my mathematical skills were so low they were practically off even the bottom of those same type of charts. I don't know what that makes me smart or dumb but I don't care at any rate.

I don't know what is the politically correct phrase you call people who are born with such severe intellectual limitations that they are hampered in their ability to learn most life skills, but at any rate those individuals aren't whom I consider ignorant and aren't the ones I mock.

I am talking about people like two members of my family. One held a fairly responsible job at a factory. He worked regular hours, not a lot of overtime, but he did his time. Then he got laid off when the company downsized. Since then he has buzzed like a bee does from flower to flower, only in his case from job to job. He always finds some excuse to quit, before he builds up vacation time or becomes eligible for promotions or raises. Yet you know who he blames that he's "poor"? If you think it's the CEO's who nearly ran his former company into the ground, or his own inability to stay in any job since, you're wrong.

He blames some "mythological" "black welfare queen" with twenty kids who sits on her ass eating bon bons and watching daytime T.V. while he's working so hard to support her ass." He's always posting memes like that on Facebook or talking at family get togethers about the same garbage. That's what I mean by "ignorance" deserving of mockery.

Another cousin has a degree in education. She could have taught even after she got married. She chose to be a stay at home mom, nothing wrong with that. She could afford too because her husband had a really high paying job. When he died fairly young of diabetic complications he left her and her kids a sizeable nest egg. Her Dad also left her a generous sum as did her father in law.

She spent every dime buying DVDs, CDs, collectibles, concerts, New cars, going on trips etc. Her kids are adults now. She works at a few part time jobs far below her abilities, that pay little, volunteers (which is a good thing), and is in credit card debt up to her eye balls. Whenever my sister or her brother, whom both work almost 60 hour weeks buy a new vehicle because they have driven theirs into the ground, she makes comments like "wow it must be nice to be rich." And again why does she think she's in debt? Is it her own lack of ambition or that she is an incurable shopaholic? Nope, in her mind it's that same mythological black woman on welfare with all those Damn little black kids, who will grow up just like their baby mama, so my cousins "hard working grandkids " will have to support someday.

Now I ask you if those are the types of opinions that I should "RESPECT" as a progressive and not mock and shame them for having? I can respect and even love other parts of their personality's but still IMHO consider their willful racism and ignorance, and hypocrisy inexcusable.