Are some problems in this society today more a class issue rather than a race issue?

Question

Or can it be both?
For example: do you think the Katrina disaster and the pathetic relief response was something to do with race? or do you think it was a class issue?


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Or any example really....I think of class as the rich and the poor. Poor regardless of color.

Answer 1

Hi, Linty,
When Katrina flooded New Orleans, the working-class poor, mostly African-Americans, were abandoned to their fate... ‘Relief’ later arrived in the form of military occupation, like Baghdad under water.... Katrina turned the spotlight on US capitalism’s social disaster of class polarisation, poverty and racism....
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What you will not see (in television coverage)..but what we witnessed, were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort : the working class of New Orleans.... The maintenance workers who used a fork lift, to carry the sick and disabled.... The engineers, who rigged, nurtured and kept the generators running...it is a mix of both :class issue/racism...
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Thanks, for the question!;)

My regards!

Answer 2

Good question. I think that it is a little of both. There are people out there who would, for example, hate someone of another race simply because of that race no matter their economic status. I also think that the response (or lack there of) after Katrina was based on mostly race. Shame on the people who did that.

Answer 3

what do you mean by class issue, do you mean the wealthy and poor if that's the case i still think it's both. let's just face it black people will never get the respect they deserve unless they support each other and if we're black and poor that makes it even worse. we need more barrack obama's in this world. in my opinion i think it's both.

Answer 4

I have nothing to add, Linty, that Kimberly hasn't already stated. She wrote a wonderfully eloquent answer, and I couldn't agree more with what she said!! Kudos, Kimberly!!! :) I applaud you!

Answer 5

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