Word: underclasses
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...talk about “The Wire” first. What was it like working in a setting like Baltimore?Jim True-Frost: We got a lot of support in Baltimore. The locals were very happy to see us. They treated us like local heroes. The underclass of a city like Baltimore is not something that you normally see portrayed on television. And especially a lot of police in the city felt like our show, as a “cop show,” got it right. I didn’t live in Baltimore constantly when we were...
...Boys Don't Cry and it is, in part, inspired by the fact that her own brother, fired by patriotic fervor in the aftermath of 9/11, enlisted and served in Iraq. As you'll remember from the earlier picture, Peirce has a special, tough-minded empathy for the American underclass, those among us who live in poverty and powerlessness and are essentially fodder for those higher and mightier American Dreamers who have the power to determine their destinies...
Outside the Shi'ite underclass, however, there is little sympathy for Sadr and his cohorts. Most Iraqis wonder why it has taken so long for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to take on the Mahdi Army. Inevitably, many are asking whether Maliki will go whole hog, pursuing the Mahdi Army until it is completely destroyed. Failure to do so could cost Maliki his political life, and leave Iraq to reckon with a wounded, more dangerous animal. On Wednesday, he gave the militias in Basra 72 hours to surrender their weapons...
...What the drugs themselves have not destroyed, the warfare against them has. And what once began, perhaps, as a battle against dangerous substances long ago transformed itself into a venal war on our underclass. Since declaring war on drugs nearly 40 years ago, we've been demonizing our most desperate citizens, isolating and incarcerating them and otherwise denying them a role in the American collective. All to no purpose. The prison population doubles and doubles again; the drugs remain...
...recently as a few decades ago, it was possible for a median-income American family to live comfortably and securely—but no longer. Today the middle class is rapidly becoming the underclass; working Americans’ incomes are stagnating just as food and fuel prices are soaring. Already millions of people are working two or three jobs, yet are still being forced to choose between feeding their families or heating their homes. (And heaven help you if you need prescription medicine or emergency care.) Is it any wonder that we have a foreclosure crisis? Is it any wonder...