A conservative commentator, Ben Shapiro, gave a speech at Berkeley back in 2017. In it, he addressed many subjects including educational inequity, white privilege, and poverty. I’ll be going to a community discussion about his perspective. Therefore I wanted to spend a little time preparing my thoughts.

To summarize his words, he said:

Okay. Here are the three rules that you need to fulfill as a person before you can start complaining about your life failures being the result of somebody else’s actions…You need to finish high school. Number two: you need to get married before you have babies. Number three: You need to get a job.

That’s it. You