[lit-ideas] Re: Pinch Michael Moore
- From: "Judith Evans" <judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:00:35 -0000
Yes and there are also white ghettos (Appalachia, trailer parks, etc.)
and Chevy Chase...
and Asian ghettos
(etc.)
do the black and Asian ghettoes have sundown signs, ordinances, restrictive
covenants?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/20/AR2006022001590_pf.html
What you're really talking about is the underclass. Your issues relate to
the poor, where numbers are skewed if you play the race game.
the only sense I can make of your last clauses is this: more black people
than white people are poor.
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From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Pinch Michael Moore
Simon: Sure there's going to be a black president and yes there's black
lawyers and judges and legislators, but there are still black (and
hispanic) ghettos.
Yes and there are also white ghettos (Appalachia, trailer parks, etc.) and
Asian ghettos (look behind the facade of NYC's Chinatown or the one in
Queens) and for all I know, a Tralfamadorian ghetto in San Francisco's
Castro neighborhood.
Seem to recall the percentage of blacks relative to the US population who
have achieved middle class status is roughly the same as that of whites.
What you're really talking about is the underclass. Your issues relate to
the poor, where numbers are skewed if you play the race game. So what you
talk about when you talk about racism may really be poverty.
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