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According to MSNBC's Harris-Perry: Hard Worker Is Offensive Term Due to Slavery
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<blockquote data-quote="John6185" data-source="post: 2807027" data-attributes="member: 25679"><p>Hard work shouldn't offend anyone, it's the old Puritan work ethic that built this nation. Look at the people who have a home, car, material possessions and you'll find they have those things earned by hard work. If you find someone living in squalor, chances are that they didn't work hard but there are exceptions. I see people all the time that are in poverty because their parents were low wage earners and their parents were as well. It can be a cycle and the only way to get out of a poor neighborhood sometimes is to walk out and not look back. I know, I was there and I walked as most of you did and we're not exceptions-a lot of people walked.</p><p>When I was a kid my mother used to say, "hard work never killed anybody." Well, I found it won't kill but it sure will give a person a good case of arthritis!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John6185, post: 2807027, member: 25679"] Hard work shouldn't offend anyone, it's the old Puritan work ethic that built this nation. Look at the people who have a home, car, material possessions and you'll find they have those things earned by hard work. If you find someone living in squalor, chances are that they didn't work hard but there are exceptions. I see people all the time that are in poverty because their parents were low wage earners and their parents were as well. It can be a cycle and the only way to get out of a poor neighborhood sometimes is to walk out and not look back. I know, I was there and I walked as most of you did and we're not exceptions-a lot of people walked. When I was a kid my mother used to say, "hard work never killed anybody." Well, I found it won't kill but it sure will give a person a good case of arthritis! [/QUOTE]
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