Poor Little Rich People

Margery Eagan forgot the Kennedy family which suffered so much tragedy. Once saw the new red car in 2010, of a Harvard architecture student with the license "EX SLAVE." Hello? I knew a man in college who explained the first time he met another, "My parents survived the holocaust." He thought he deserved pity and sympathy, more than the children of those who did not survive? Huh? If they did not survive they had no children. Duh! Then there are the paranoid Black Americans who when reminded that the German government murdered en mass, Jews, delivered the typical reply. "It was worse for Blacks in America." Oh yea. People who really grew up in a poor dysfunctional family are not proud of it. They are ashamed of where they came from. It is nothing to be proud of; except when media spin doctors are making a myth of how a man achieved greatness coming from a poor background. Otherwise it is not a great accomplishment? As when children of wealthy and powerful men and women achieve greatness. In Boston it is especially common to worship children of celebrities. The daughter of Edward Bernays lives in Cambridge on that for many years. And she is only one of many in the Boston area. The children of celebrities whine about how hard it is to grow up in the shadow of a great person. Poor little rich girl? One attractive woman obtained sympathy because she was "cursed with beauty." Minds have a terrible ability to rationalize any misguided beliefs which make the mind holder look good. Children of wealthy and powerful Black Americans and Africans are expert at getting sympathy from Whites. Recipients of Affirmative Action are seldom grateful for the special privileges and benefits they get due to skin color.

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The pols cry: We had it worse than you!
Boston Herald
By Margery Eagan
Sunday, September 9, 2012