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The 85 wealthiest people on earth (less people than present at the Children Can Thrive Summit and likely less people then will attend your child's weekend high school football game or attended your wedding or your Sunday church service) have as much wealth as 3.5 billion poorest people i.e. 1/2 the world's population - Oxfam.  This is something to think about.  How do we combat any social injustice when this is the case?  

 

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Do we need to "Combat", or perhaps Challenge, or Organize, to constructively address "Social Injustice"? Is there an actual "threat" ,when our "Individualistic Culture" serves to reinforce behaviors which oppress, or demean, or stigmatize us? Do some "wealthy" people use their money in "philanthropic" endeavors, such as the $3 million donation to a pediatric clinic that has been addressing ACEs in the Bay Area of California? (Or the Foundation in Alberta, Canada which financed the Alberta Family Wellness Institute so they could inform Canadians about effects of toxic stress on kids' brains!) Does this Individualistic Culture oppress even the wealthy, by motivating them to "achieve"...? Does that not create three groups: Haves, Have Nots, and the Have Some Want Mores?

Harry Allen Overstreet cautioned us, in his book "The Mature Mind" to look beyond the Individualistic, at an assortment of institutions, such as Newspapers which rely on Sensationalism to mold our thoughts, reactions, and responses. Do we succumb to "Pluralistic Ignorance", and not recognize someone else's pain as being just like our "pain"-even though their "toxic stress" may be poverty, or something different than our "toxic stress"? Would we be wise to not "simplify our analysis" and look at how much funding the wealthy provide to Oxfam America, and how Innovators like Jeremy Rifkin (The North Will Rise Again-noting how the largest block of capital is invested Union Pension Funds!-and how California Teachers withdrew their portfolio from businesses in South Africa, before Apartheid ceased), Floyd D'Agostino of Alternative Economics showed how Community Development Credit Unions could address "Redlining", poverty, unemployment, and sub-standard buildings, etc., in Anacostia/Washington, D.C. and other factors on the Navajo Reservation, and Gwendolyn Hallsmith, and a host of others....

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