SOLVED

I was asked to solve a riddle today;

What do poor people have. That rich people need? And if you were  to eat it, you would die because of it?

In the beginning of this statement I did not clearly understand the question. Before delivering a ignorant statement to be accepted as a honest opinion. So instead I immediately subdued my own way of personal thinking. To focus more on the contributing factors that draws out our cultural tensions.

I remember while in college I would volunteer in doing Pro BONO work. And volunteering in communities that were in desperate need for economic development. To sharpen my people skills and knowledge. Is when I discovered how we as one people are “structured based on "value and worth” in areas that reflect a fine line between poverty and wealth. But not every voice  is broadcasted to the masses.  Of the real recipients conditioned in our own societies of thinking.

Today in I continue to see the same faces from those past stories. And what we should not be in confusion about is the reasoning to why we can still hear;

“I don’t have nothing”. Or I need more of everything.

Can we relate to the teachings of “value & worth”, and do we get how we were divided because of “generational knowledge”.  It was in a sociology class  I watched a film that revealed no matter how far we think we have come in our cultural individuality. A Country built on inequality & equality, freedom & favoritism creates a bridge built on the lack of Generational Education. A tool created, to be used for ages.

So when I observe or I am a part of conversations where people relax their jaws and pride themselves on their fine possessions, I remember the information  implemented in the registers of our thinking. Regarding values and worth, and until we can encourage ourselves and lift up a people without derogatory intensions. The cycle remains for generations, broken.