{"id":272,"date":"2005-09-02T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2005-09-02T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T16:50:07","slug":"margins-of-society-at-center-of-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/margins-of-society-at-center-of-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Margins Of Society at Center of Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is where the story gets really political: many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy are people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society.  Poverty exhibits a bizarre sense of equality &#8211; the poor, white and black, are now equally suffering.  Here are just a few views on this aspect of the southern situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mark Naison, a white professor of African-American Studies at Fordham University in the Bronx wrote, &#8220;Is this what the pioneers of the civil rights movement fought to achieve, a society where many black people are as trapped and isolated by their poverty as they were by segregation laws?  If Sept. 11 showed the power of a nation united in response to a devastating attack, Hurricane Katrina reveals the fault lines of a region and a nation, rent by profound social divisions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We tend to think of natural disasters as somehow even-handed, as somehow random,&#8221; said Martin Espada, an English professor at the University of Massachusetts and poet of a decidedly leftist political bent who is Puerto Rican. &#8220;Yet it has always been thus: poor people are in danger. That is what it means to be poor. It&#8217;s dangerous to be poor. It&#8217;s dangerous to be black. It&#8217;s dangerous to be Latino.&#8221;&#8221;Everything is God&#8217;s will,&#8221; said Charles Steele Jr., the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta. &#8220;But there&#8217;s a certain amount of common sense that God gives to individuals to prepare for certain things.&#8221; That means, Mr. Steele said, not waiting until the eve of crisis. &#8220;Most of the people that live in the neighborhoods that were most vulnerable are black and poor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So it comes down to a lack of sensitivity on the part of people in Washington that you need to help poor folks. It&#8217;s as simple as that.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is where the story gets really political: many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy are people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society. Poverty exhibits a bizarre sense of equality &#8211; the poor, white and black, are now equally suffering. Here are just a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[175,351,502],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-disasters","tag-katrina","tag-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}