Boogie 2005

"Poverty's grinding malevolence is fed in part by social choices and public
policy decisions that directly impact how many people are poor and how long
they remain that way. To acknowledge that is to own up to our role in the
misery of the poor--be it the politicians we vote for who cut programs aimed
at helping the economically vulnerable; the narrative of bootstrap individualism
we invoke to deflect the relevence of the considerable benefits we've received
while bitterly complaining of the few breaks the poor might get; the religious
myths we circulate that bring shame on the poor by chiding them for lacking the appropriate hunger to be prosperous; and the resentment of the alleged pathology
of poor blacks--fueled more by stereotypes than empirical support--that gives us license to dismiss or demonize them."
-Michael Eric Dyson
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster


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