CV and mad panic behaviour

[PaulP]

Perhaps if the observer has selective vision.

There are just as many poor Caucasians in Brooklyn as there are poor African Americans in Harlem, and it's only a 10 min drive apart!

Even worse down south in North or South Carolina, motor homes and high density apartment blocks are 50/50 and still effectively divided based on skin colour to this day, If going to Atlanta on business you can take a look down from an office block elevated walkway or executive balcony to the ground level, you will see alternating groups of Caucasians and African Americans huddled around cooling towers keeping warn in winter. But the media only ever report the downtrodden on one side of this debate, while making inbreed jokes about the other! We don't have to discuss the Appalachians, El Paso or other similar areas either, quickly you see this problem is not as anisotropic as the media make out!

I realise the USA has embedded institutionalised racism, and it varies widely from state to state, but it has a uniform prejudice towards the poor.

In the USA most people that I've encountered believe being poor is your own fault, it's because of something you've done wrong, or God punishing you for being a bad person, an idiot or just plain lazy! That embedded opinion doesn't matter if you are black, white, yellow, brown, pink, orange or green!

You can cut the statistics any way you like - in terms of numbers, whites make up the greatest majority of the US population. Hispanics and blacks have much smaller numbers, yet these two groups make up the biggest numbers of poor people. And I'm sure that if you include prison populations, undocumented workers etc., the numbers would be higher.