Premise:
- unfairness
- incompetance
- laziness
- dirty
- income
- unkempt
- unhealthy
- sadness
- disgruntled
- despairing
- race
- drugs
- irrational decisions
- hopelessness
- un-even lifestyle
Authors Argument:
- Kozol argues that the desparity in certain parts of New York and New York City are due to a lack of social and economic concern for men, women and children who are at or below poverty. Sturggling to survive in a drug and disease infested world, that they should never have to cope with in the first place.
Evidence:
- When Cliffie, a young man who shows Kozol around, expresses a morbid enthusiasm about an incinerator located within his neighborhood. Cliffie's mother later explains that it is in their neighborhood because when it was proposed to placed in Manhattan, that the parents in those neighborhoods complained that it could cause cancer.
- also, When David, another one of Kozol's interviewees, calls Kozol while he is home in MA just to talk to him about the condition of his ailing mother. His mothers fear of hospitals sadly overrides her fear of death becuase her doctor informed her that a stay in a hospital could easily worsen her already fatal condition.
Questions/Comments:
- I much preferred this article to Delpit, though in my opinion it said the same thing (ideally). It was a much more logical and close at home approach to bring his point home.
3 comments:
I had a friend who went there, Liz Labreque. What are the demographics like? whiteness? color? male? female?
Hmmm... a good point. But I'm going to have to say that whiteness does mean something. Not that it isn't a mis-labeling of many races, but that still doesn't go to prove that it means nothing. But i would say that it is more of a physical description of the skin rather than an actual race, although people seem to see it that way.
P.S. Your post sent me on a rant about race and skin color... check out my post "THE THE MYTH OF THE CENTURY - SKIN COLOR = RACE", lemme know what you think.
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