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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (249581)9/5/2005 2:19:19 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1571926
 
>This time Mr. Bush and fed support were MIA in the black neighborhoods of NO for 5 days after the disaster. You do the math.

Well, I think they really just don't understand why the people in those neighborhoods didn't evacuate immediately, or as Bill Maher put it, "throw a case of Poland Spring into their Range Rovers and head out to their summer homes."

It's hard to comprehend when one has spent most of his/her life with enough money to leave town when he/she wants to, but a lot of poor people can't even conceive of ever going anywhere. I read a study early in college where they'd taken people from different economic classes and had them draw maps, starting with their neighborhoods and continuing outwards, as much geography as they were readily familiar with. Invariably, wealthier people had larger geographic horizons, and their sketches demonstrated such.

-Z
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