I’d love the sauteed shrimp, but God won’t let me. The fundamentalists who go on about Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a man as with a woman: that is an abomination”) don’t seem to have read Leviticus 11:9, which says, “Of creatures that live in water…all that have neither fins nor scales, whether in salt or fresh water…you shall regard as vermin….You shall not eat their flesh.”
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“Whites hide their privilege from themselves and, accordingly, feel no guilt for the hidden costs they impose on African Americans,” writes sociologist Michael Hout, reviewing Thomas Shapiro’s new book, The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality, in the Washington Post’s national weekly (March 1-7). “People who inherited tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars nonetheless told Shapiro that they were self-made and self-reliant. They proudly told him how the assets they inherited grew under their stewardship.”
Why the CHA had to tear all those buildings down. From a March 1 press release from the Woodstock Institute: “Some 63 percent of all federal housing subsidies go to families in the top fifth of the income distribution mainly via homeowner deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes, while only 18 percent goes to families in the bottom fifth of incomes.”
