I believe that intellectually speaking, Mr. Rank is able to explain the concept of his comparison of musical chairs and how poverty comes to be in existence in America. I understand his concept and have a difficult time using this analogy, due to the fact that as a Native American, we have always been treated indifferently in America. When I see the graph FIGURE 3.1, I cannot see us in A, B, C or D it does not reflect accurately about our reservations or the treatment and agreements that we were promised. Poverty and other immigrants who came to this country to live and help their families back home wherever they are from, seem to only be used as a convenience, yes things are changing, but in who's best interest are they changing? I keep thinking about the Mayors Report we did in class and it just seemed so unfair and the opportunity to play musical chairs never came. It seems like the raw data to really find out the true statistics of our homeless families; disregarding race, creed or color.
We are doing a survey on racism for our Race and Ethnicity class and a question we are asking those taking the survey, " What race do you think are getting that most welfare in the United States, whites, blacks, latino, asian or middle Eastern? The answer is white and I was quite surprised at the response that we got, the majority of people so far have said, black.
I wish, Mr. Rank could do an analogy of what it is that we really are going through as people of color and poor, yes he explains alot that is very true. The mechanisms that keep us in poverty. Drugs, crime and prostitution are one way out, but I really don't believe anyone deserves that option if I can help it.
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