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Originally posted by MellowYellow
That's what we were basically discussing in my soc class. Well as much aid that they proclaim is out there.. it just isn't getting to the right people... that's politics too. Unimportant... I don't... think it is?
On the other hand there are some gruesome stories. Did anyone hear about the nursing home? Man that's just horrible.
I didn't mean all politics are unimportant. But that, generally, a lot of people are talking about "Oh, look at how Bush mishandled this situation, blah blah blah" just as a political stance simply because they dislike Bush's politics. But really, who cares? What did and did not happen is not as important as figuring out what is happening and what will happen. It's just very political to say "Why didn't anyone think of the poor black people? Why didn't we do ___ for the poor black people? Oh it must be because they're poor and black, and our government is rich and white."
Basically, I do believe that, perhaps, there may have been some "broader social issues" (to use your words, if you don't mind) at work before, but there's no actual way to prove it, or even suggest that it's more than likely. The only thing we can say is that we believe that it's possible for the government to have done less than it was capable of doing simply because the people in the affected region were poor and black - we cannot, however, say that it's a certainty and there's really no potential for analysis there anyway; we can only say that it's possible. It's also possible that the government was simply negligent and the fact that they were poor and black had nothing to do with it.
More to the point, I do not think it's the same issue as discussing how the families, especially those that were already poor, are going to recover. I'm not even discussing it politically, though, certainly, politics can come into play here. Where the aid goes to is definitely a political issue (one I consider very important).
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09-09-2005 05:32 AM
