Tuesday, March 26, 2002

Racializing poverty is fatuous

Poverty is poverty. To be sure, it is no more FUN to be a

    poor white than to be a poor black. A fatuous newspaper headline last

    week told the reader the BLACKS are falling behind WHITES in the quality

    of their health care. The relevant question is  this : Do low income

    whites have better health care than low income blacks ?

          Does a middle class black person with Blue Cross get less quality

    health care than a working class white without health insurance ?

                 It is fatuous indeed to racialize poverty.  We need a

    national health care plan that covers everybody. Your health care should

    not depend on the vagaries of the job market.

               As any Darwinist will tell you, INSIDE we are all alike.

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