Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Thought For Today

Oga Falola,

It isn't if one is lucky to have certain factors in place, like my mother's and the Church's moralistic influences, otherwise, Prof, one would do anything to survive.

Oga, let me tell you as someone who was there, that beating poverty to come up to where one is now is a heculean task that one would not wish to even one's enemies.

-CAO.

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 3:19 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Chidi:

Poverty, with due respect, does not necessarily lead to crime. Indeed, it is one of the strongest motivation to succeed in life. It carries a body of dignity and hope.

See a current movie, White Tiger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNZsomWa7U

 

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 8:00 AM
To: USA African Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Thought For Today

If you are from a very poor home like me and you did not go to prison at the age of 21, you are lucky.

 

You struggle for things your mates take for granted. 

 

Almost everyone takes advantage of you, nobody respects you. You don't have dignity and you hate society for these.

 

I however have to sincerely thank the (Roman Catholic Church) Sunday school teachers, who kept drumming it into our ears then that any slight moral and legal infractions would land us in "hellfire".

 

I also must sincerely thank my late mother for that singsong of hers even in the midst of poverty, that "Chidi, any day you commit any criminal act, you will cease to be my son".

 

Society should for the sake of its safety, work towards reducing extreme poverty.

 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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