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[fabrisse]

Part of an AP Report from today's Salon Headlines:
"They have made a living telling black people they are victims," the HUD secretary said in an interview with The Associated Press. "As long as they keep them in victim mode, they have liberals who will take care of them."

Because liberals are the ones that keep the zoo where all the black people dwell? Am I the only one who reads it that way?

I just finished watching The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Seymour Hersch was on promoting his new book. He said that things have been going on at Guantanamo Bay Prison since 2002 that make the pictures from Abu Ghraib seem tame.

There are no words.

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[tpau]

no, they are not keepers of hte szoo. but, itis the liberals who do things like advocate a welfarres tate,which takes care of victims

[siderea]

The observation that sometimes the "helping professions" deliberately sabotage the people they are meant to help, so that they don't work themselves out of a job, is a reasonable one. It's a particularly common rant, I gather, among politically conscious handicapped people.

This actually came up in class today. My new professor (for Communication) is also the ethics prof.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I can see that. But that's not what I took away from that quote. Maybe I took it too far out of context.

Part of my problem is that this guy isn't the one in charge of HEW. Who's he to be talking about welfare or the victim mentality?

His job is to make certain that cities budget for services like public transportation so that people can get to the jobs they have. This is also the department that's supposed to make certain that local zoning laws don't violate federal laws -- like EPA regulations or anti-racism legislation. It's his job to apportion federal money to low income housing, too.

It's hard to work oneself out of a job, but I think that the best people will do it.