cheapbag214s
Joined: 27 Jun 2013
Posts: 16004
Read: 0 topics
Warns: 0/5 Location: England
|
Posted: Mon 20:25, 22 Jul 2013 Post subject: by some economic and health metrics |
|
|
Miscegenation Ball, Cont.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Feb 2 2011, 9:00 AM ET Tweet More Email Print Channing Kennedy complicates the beiging of America conversation:Jamelle's basing this on intermarriage rates, and qualifies it by saying that some nonwhites will never "become" white. An example: by some economic and health metrics, Asians are already doing better than white people -- but averages don't tell the whole story, of course, and poor Asian communities often deal with systemic oppression doubly, both as immigrants and as people of color. Working-class folks in San Francisco's Chinatown are kept vulnerable with the same mechanism as all undocumented immigrant workforces: Threats of deportation keep efforts to organize at bay, and workers have no option besides long hours,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], low pay, dangerous conditions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and no sick leave. And, as a historically nonwhite neighborhood, Chinatown deals with the same aftershocks of racist zoning and lending policies that destroyed so much of black Detroit. Multiple
The post has been approved 0 times
|
|