Oh, and for extra "diversity points" a couple of my blood relatives are black. They grew up in a 2-story home, with our grandmother providing some extra, free daycare (they live the next town over) -- their parents are sober, evangelical Christians, both of whom have full-time jobs. They're definitely solidly middle class. Just as are the black families, the Indian families, the Chinese families, etc. in my co-op in Queens.
So I'm still trying to figure out how race = poverty here. I have had my run-ins with rural poverty (overwhelmingly white), so I'm guessing that race = poverty because the media mavens live in big cities, where most of the poor people are not white. The same problems plague the white rural poor: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, low schooling, violence, teen pregnancy. But you don't see so many stories about that.
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Date: 2005-09-09 05:14 pm (UTC)So I'm still trying to figure out how race = poverty here. I have had my run-ins with rural poverty (overwhelmingly white), so I'm guessing that race = poverty because the media mavens live in big cities, where most of the poor people are not white. The same problems plague the white rural poor: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, low schooling, violence, teen pregnancy. But you don't see so many stories about that.