Thursday, February 18, 2010

Kozal and Macintosh

It is weird to think that right in your own country there are people that live in such poverty but Kozol and Macintosh makes sure to point out that the majority of the privilege class does not see this kind of poverty. Is hard to read about the many things in the life's of the people described such as the hunger, crimes, and drug use.



“DOA”If you walk on St.Anns Avenue at night, you will hear dealers call it out. Its like they’re saying Come on over here. Ill show you how to end your life.”


This shocked me how people can even get away with doing this in the first place and never mind that how do they live with themselves its honestly mind blowing.


“At an elementary school that serves the neighborhood across the avenue, only 7 out of 800 children do not qualify for free lunches.”5 of those 7”, says the principal get reduced price lunches, because they are only classified as poor not destitute”


Just taking this all in is scary, that mean every child at this school is not only poor by the standard of poor but they are even worse off. Im just glad even with the large amount of people who need fee lunch that they still give it to all of them.


"Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people - that is my idea of evil."


this is another quote that ties in good with the other pieces discussed because it explains how the privilege race is blind to the fact that if they where to do more that many things occurring in AMerica could be prevented and make everything better but the privileged people are to blind and or not willing to help that it is considered by this writer to be evil.


After reading all of this its hard to think that me myself doesn't really know how bad things are and have the power to help but the majority of the time wouldn't. There are so many shocking things to read for example the amount of people with aids. The only thing worse than that is the amount that are children. Being part of the privileged class is good but learning about the people who are not makes me uneasy. I feel like if we can change the the world can change.

1 comment:

  1. sorry Professor Bogad i just could not get any of this to work on my computer but finally i got it up i apologize

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