Savage Inequalities Analysis

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Andre Lemos SOCI 1306 Professor Lalgee Response Paper on Savage Inequalities After a long week of catching up with all three classes that I decided to take this summer, Jonathan Kozol introduced me to this magnificent reading. I must say that even though the realities presented in the text are repulsive, I was glad that my last academic effort for the summer was not going to be spent on a boring and tedious reading. Honestly, I would be lying if I said that I was too touched about the reality experienced by the residents of East Saint Louis. I was born in Brazil, where despite the tremendous economic growth we have been experiencing in the past years, there are stories like that told by at least forty percent of the population (78…show more content…
I strongly believe that the problem experienced by them has a lot to do by the fact that the majority of the community’s ethnical group is African American. I came to learn that in this melting pot called the United States, segregation still exists and is much stronger than back in Brazil, where diversity also exists. Even with very little hope that much will change in this community, I believe that the only way out is education. We have been shown that the state is not concerned about their problem at all, and with that said, maybe it is time for the first African American president start a educational federal fund for the communities that suffer from this…show more content…
That makes a lot of sense after reading Kozol’s text. But what governments need to realize is that without education, communities, even surrounded, by big corporations will not be able to prepare them for the jobs these organizations offer. This is exactly what the people from East Saint Louis is experiencing, they have become the dumpster of these big chemical corporations. The heath reality that they live in is unbelievable, I honestly felt like I was reading a report about a Latin American nation, and I like the way that Kozol points out that sewerage systems are what differentiates the U.S. from the third world. I’d like to point out that the current U.S. newborn mortality of 7 out of 1,000 births would not apply for the community that lives surrounded by continuous exposure to sewerage
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