“It’s kind of dehumanizing,” Mr. Brewster-Streeks said of the experience. “They see you as a certain kind of person. We’ve never been that certain kind of person.”
via More Middle-Class New Yorkers Fall Behind on Rent and Face Eviction – NYTimes.com.
So what does “that certain kind of person” look like?
I had a talk the other day about the fortunes of the GOP in the wake of Arlen Specter’s defection.
The writing was on the wall as soon as middle-class men and women looked in the mirror and realized they were swiftly becoming “that certain kind of person.”
Oh, god.
Living in Brooklyn through the recession has been a disgusting lesson in the economic disparities of NYC. It was always clear, really. But these pieces in New York magazine and the New York Times about the rough times hitting the famous and fortunate have been driving me crazy.
It also has a weird resonance with the stories of South Americans and Asians who come to America and are shocked that they are classified as non-white. I haven't fully thought this line through, but my gut has the same unpleasant reaction in both cases.
Its clear now that the face uf poverty has change along with the face of the president