Wednesday 24 June 2009
We have a storyline that allows us to justify the inequality that exists in our country. We tell each other stories about the culture of poverty and the lack of personal and collective responsibility in racially marginalized communites. We talk about segregation from opportunity in terms of choice, of people just wanting to live with their own. We become armchair sociologists, uninterested and unconcerned with the facts and even less aware of institutional arrangements and the work they do in creating and perpetuating poverty in America. John A. Powell ☀
