Tragedy in Black and White
And who can honestly deny that race is a major reason America treats its poor more harshly than any other advanced country? To put it crudely: a middle-class European, thinking about the poor, says to himself, "There but for the grace of God go I." A middle-class American is all too likely to think, perhaps without admitting it to himself, "Why should I be taxed to support those people?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091905K.shtml
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Starmail - 19. Sep, 22:34
