Also, regarding your second link, there is an extreme disconnect in America, especially, where people are kind of "over" the whole "race issue" and so it's just business as usual that of course racial minorities are poor, so we can just stop thinking about that social injustice and focus on how poor people are treated.
The reason I call it a disconnect is that the fact is, poor people are still often disproportionally (and in urban areas, usually) of racial or ethnic minority. And I thought it was the dream of the civil rights era that 1) there'd be a good mix there and that if we had to have poor people, a representative portion of them would also be pink or 2) if we could avoid it, we'd try not to have desperately poor people.
And we got done with Civil Rights and we still have a bunch of poor people who also happen to be non-pink. But since we're done with Civil Rights activism or something, it's rude to bring up the "race card" and instead we should focus on economic factors of prejudice.
I think I missed the "being over race" bus. Somehow, no matter how hard I scrub, my olive skin doesn't turn pink, and people still treat me differently from pink people. Or maybe it's my eyes. Should I have a surgeon "correct" my epicanthic fold?
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Date: 2005-09-10 01:42 pm (UTC)The reason I call it a disconnect is that the fact is, poor people are still often disproportionally (and in urban areas, usually) of racial or ethnic minority. And I thought it was the dream of the civil rights era that 1) there'd be a good mix there and that if we had to have poor people, a representative portion of them would also be pink or 2) if we could avoid it, we'd try not to have desperately poor people.
And we got done with Civil Rights and we still have a bunch of poor people who also happen to be non-pink. But since we're done with Civil Rights activism or something, it's rude to bring up the "race card" and instead we should focus on economic factors of prejudice.
I think I missed the "being over race" bus. Somehow, no matter how hard I scrub, my olive skin doesn't turn pink, and people still treat me differently from pink people. Or maybe it's my eyes. Should I have a surgeon "correct" my epicanthic fold?