To live among a people divided is a sickness that one can not explain. To live and raise kids in this kind of environment will leave any person who is not strong willed to suffer endlessly at the sight of no hope for a healthy and productive future. It is extremely painful to bare a feeling that the people around you could care less about you, themselves or the community in which they live. Having grown up in a diverse community the author here has had a chance to witness true family structures. When the brother of a Spanish family was down on his luck and out of work his sister allowed him to live in the basement of her home until things picked back up for him. When the brother of a white family was a crack fiend his sister also provided a place for her brother to live until he got off drugs. In these same ethnic groups I’ve also seen where a person didn’t have money for daycare services and the families worked together to care for the child so that parent could go to work. This has become a sight of hope but also a cause of depression at the same time because the ethnic group to which the author here belongs to does not share the same family values. As this author grew older and started to understand what was taking place in the homes around him, it was easy to notice that “The State” played a major role in the destruction of his people. What is strange is that no one else seems to recognize this as the author here has. With section 8 housing, family court, schooling and even legal aid lawyers it has become very clear that the separation of the black family is a main priority in “The State’s” agenda.

Section 8 housing
The idea of affordable homes is an American dream that every American would love to have, but at what cost? The State has become the replacement husband, father or boyfriend in the black household today. The laws for section 8 housing do not allow for a man or any other person to live inside of the home unless they are on the lease for a period of time. Therefore when you have a family member who is experiencing hard times and you live in section 8 housing you cannot lend a helping hand because you place yourself at risk of losing your home as well. If a family member of yours didn’t let you stay with them when you were out of work or for any other reason that you may need, how would you feel about that family member, would they still be considered family? Section 8 housing separates the black family in this manner all too often. I also believe that section 8 housing plays a major role in the separation of black men and women. If you look at the older generations you’d see that the mothers and fathers stuck together for better or worst because they were dependent on each others support. The woman would raise the kids and the man would pay the bills, now black women don’t need such support because of their replacement man “The State”. The State pays around ¾ of the rent for them causing the black woman to gain the idea that she doesn’t need a man to “help” pay the bills all the while forgetting that she is dependent on “The State” to do so. And by allowing “The State” to pay her bills she grants “The State” the ability to look into her personal affairs such as how many people live with her, how much money she and those who live with her make along with every time she/they get a pay raise, how many hours she/they work a week and any other changes in her/their work schedule. The effect of such constant reviews from “The State” puts the woman in a position to not want to grow in life because the more you make the more they take causing the woman to lose her drive and ambition in an effort to save a few dollars on her rent. If the woman had a child with a man, they could never consider the idea of living together because he would have to join the lease and if the man made enough money for them both to pay the rent then the woman would lose her section 8 housing lease. A woman on section 8 housing wouldn’t let such a thing happen because she will always be struggling with the thought that if things don’t workout where will she live? This thought subconsciously destroys the relationship from the start because she will never fully commit to the relationship due to her commitment with “The State”. The author here also has to wonder how many women on section 8 continue to have child after child in order to keep “The State” committed to them for another 21yrs? Something else that’s interesting to the author is the fact that this same woman wouldn’t grant the man she loves or any member of her family and/or friends the same privilege to look into her affairs like “The State” does. So with section 8 housing the black woman gain a false sense of independence which is detrimental to the growth of herself and her family. I can’t say all women are like this, no not at all but even those who aren’t still have a false illusion of independence which clouds their judgment on their brothers in the streets. With the lack of affordable living conditions where does this leave the Black man? He can’t live with his woman or most of his family because they’re on section 8 housing, so he has a choice to make and that choice is live or die - that’s really the only way to view it. When he makes the choice to live and the only way to pays the bills is selling drugs, the woman on section 8 says he’s made a bad choice in life. If/when he ends up in jail, she never once to stops and views herself in his shoes not even for a moment, never even asks herself what would she do if she was left with the choice of “live or die”. The State doesn’t handout section 8 in the abundance but it should because the numbers show that urban areas across The States have been in a state of economic depression – meaning more than 25% of urban area people have been without work (had The State of the Union reached 25% of it’s people out of work then the country would be in the second great depression). Couple that with the cost of living growing more and more out of reach for the common person due to gentrification and the fact that Crack Cocaine is easier to get in the urban areas of America than a job and it’s easy to see that mental depression is just as high as the economic depression, It doesn’t take a genius to know that when jobs are down crime is up so it should be no surprise that the streets are filled with fiends and drug dealers. If you had no place to live, no job that will hire you, and if the one that did was like the city job(http://vimradio.com/forum/topics/city-job) would you do to survive? It’s hard for me to believe that a person who receives “State help” can say another has made a bad choices in their life when they’re surviving the best way they know how on their own without help from “The State”. I ask that the person on State assistance free themselves from “The State” before they say another person has made a bad choice in life and then show them how to survive the right way without help from “The State”. A person who tries to survive with just a high school education may find themselves doing crime if they don’t have family and friends to help with the cost of living, this means Mr. Charlie will try and incarcerate them sooner or later meanwhile a person on section 8 can just work weekends and Uncle Sam will pay 3/4th of the rent for them…….