Government & Family Issue

Ms. Foley said...
What solutions do you think the government should consider for this community? Whose responsibility is it to change the lives of the individuals living in the Ida B. Wells housing project?

The responsibility to change the lives of the individuals that live in Ida B. Wells housing projects and the surrounding areas should come from the government but also the individuals that live in the community. I believe that some of the responsibility should come from the government because they should be trying to make it a better and safer place to live. They should enforce more police in the neighborhood and clean up the schools. They can also create a boys and girls club that kids can go to, to get away from the streets and have programs that kids can do to work. Not all the responsibility lies with the government. Some of the responsibility lies with the family, they can make sure that there kids go to school and have the right education to be successful in life, and also not let there children go out and stay out to late at an early age so they wouldn’t learn what’s happening in the streets. All these are miner steps that can help the community become safer; enjoy full, and overall much better. Families moving into the housing projects will see that it’s a really great community to raise there children and start a living. With my following answer do you guys agree with it? Why or why not?

Government 2007

In the book Our America LeAlan and Lloyd face problems every days of their lives. Living conditions, killings, drugs, sex, are all problems in LeAlan and Lloyd’s community. Problems that our government should be trying to fix instead of telling people that everything is all right when its clearly not. In past times situations like these weren’t handled and now that the government realizes these issues why aren’t they doing anything about it. They so call claim to be much more focused on making America a better place. But I only see that happing in the rich areas. For example in Boston lately the crime has been over the roofs and after about 150 killings in the city the government has decided to increase patrol in the bad neighborhoods but why is that in rich neighborhoods the kids learn about not commuting crimes, not having sex, and teaching them how to be successful in life. When in the bad community like LeAlans and Lloyd’s the need to be learning about these kinds of things isn’t being enforced. Has the government giving up on the bad communities and the families that are living within them?