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Has Class Trumped Race?
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2-15-2008 2:38 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0d340c78-9a7b-4bb3-8bf3-ca419dab714c/0E2851B7-364F-4103-83F6-7A473243058A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/" href="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.racialicious.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><H2 class="post-title">Has Class Trumped Race? Part 1 - Understanding Privilege</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>There is also an interesting post called <A href="http://scalzi.com/whatever/003704.html">“Being Poor”</A> by John Scalzi (apparently written in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.) At the end of a long list of scenarios, he writes:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><BLOCKQUOTE><P>Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.</p> <P>Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.</p> <P>Being poor is seeing how few options you have.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>1. Has anyone close to you ever overdosed on drugs?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>3. Has anyone in your family’s social circle ever been in prison?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>4. Has your family ever been foreclosed on?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>5. Have your parents ever been bankrupt?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>7. Have you seen a dentist in the past year?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>9. Did your parents use pay-day loans?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>12. Has anyone in your immediate family ever delayed an important medical procedure because they didn’t have the money?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>13. Did you ever move in with relatives because of financial problems?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>15. Was one or both parents often unemployed and looking for work?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2008/02/05/has-class-trumped-race-part-1-understanding-privilege/"><P>16. Was your family ever evicted?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E2851B7-364F-4103-83F6-7A473243058A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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