Opportunity for family

* An excellent speech by US social commentator about poverty in the US, but whose socially-charged arguments could be transplanted to many of our "neoliberalised" economies. The focus is on the decreasing level of opportunities and support extended to the black community within the US. But I believe the overarching concerns go in a search for a social sterling, where our better-off communities reach out to the more needy communities (and not simply in "higher-band rate taxation" which goes into the state's pocket to feed wars overseas anyway), but in cross-pollination of opportunities and actual social work as part of a standard social fabric.
* This cross-pollination requires a more detailed analysis of what exactly makes the "better-off" exactly that, and more "needy" communities needy. It is pretty obvious that human opportunity is based on a net of securities grounded at the family level, which then abstracts out collectively to a community and then dynamically to the nation. However, all these notions are highly politicised and indoctrinated and are hence defined by the ruling parties, making it necessary to return to the foundation of communities, back to the unit of family, the universal unit of society and social development.
* The said net of securities impacting this closely-bound unit is composed of economic security, financial security, educational security, racial/identity security, religious/belief security, work security, medical security, interpersonal security. You could argue these are all rights, and you will also notice that I don't mention the right to ownership, the prima facie of modern capitalism theory. But the securities above constitute the undeniable and ageless ramparts that guard against, respectively, systemic poverty, pecuniary need, intellectual despondency, community- and individual-level harassment, psychological and spiritual pathology, erosion of labour and pride in labour, physical weakness, and the crushing of self-determination.
* What should politics depend on? Ensuring the above securities are a) discussed, b) drafted and sold to the public, c) enshrined as not the policy of the day, but the policy of a society at grips with itself. Entrenched as the ruling elites' status quo is, that they then indoctrinate their middle-class-ified masses with, this fortress must be stormed not for ourselves but for our forefathers and for our children. For our forefathers who fought for the basic rights we as children can now enjoy and are able to uphold, for our children who should not grow up as stunted, cringing citizens in a stunted, cringing society. Get some hints from the current social upheaval in Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia or Mexico, not the US/Russian-doctored central Asian "revolutions". Look into your history and see what we have achieved, what little we have achieved and that is already being reclaimed by our "leaders", as we grope for opportunity in the blinding darkness of early 21st century.