Reply #16: That's a great site! I especially liked "The World's A Dirty Place When You Are Poor" [View All]

well, I didn't like it, but....

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/09/Opinion/The_world_s_a_dirty_p.shtml

One of our persistent national fantasies - right up there with having God's permission to do pretty much anything we want - is that America has no class system. We tell ourselves we're not like stratified, calcified Europe. Here it doesn't matter if you went to school at Andover or Dixie County High; if you drink chateau-bottled Burgundy or Schlitz; if you live behind a gate or behind the landfill. In America, we are all equal.

Well, to steal from Ernest Hemingway, wouldn't it be pretty to think so? But some Americans are clearly more equal than others, especially when it comes to the environment. The poor suffer disproportionately from the destruction of our wetlands, the poisoning of our waters and the degradation of our air and our soil. This is particularly true in the South, as Robert Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, points out: "Historically, the South lagged behind the rest of country economically, and so would welcome any industry, no matter how dirty."

That article deserves it's own thread... I hope you'll do the honors!

:applause: