Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Isn't this a bit off topic? How do I get to the forum where I can respond to this armchair proletariat of the Marxist-Leninist theroy (who probably lives in a big house, drives a nice car, eats a lot of good food, and generally enjoys everything else a capitalistic society has to offer)?? There seems to be a vast number of intelligent people in America who possess great skill and quickness in pointing out the deficiencies in our socio-eco structure/condition...yet, when it comes to exiting comfort zones (and keyboards) to get actively involved in deploying tangible solutions, the numbers drop off considerably. Montie -------------------------------- >>And now the scrim is ripped away - we can see who these people are and how they live. We can see that they were left behind to fend for themselves in the hell hole that New Orleans is now, left behind while the middle and upper class fled in their BMWs, Escalades, and F-150s, left behind by a government that didn't even think to start dropping bottled water and food. If you want to condemn someone in the U.S., Tina, condemn the system that has allowed this poverty to continue unabated since people first started acknowledging it almost 50 years ago. The Mississippi Delta isn't much different from the way it was in 1900 - and yet we condemn these people because they don't pull together like the benighted poor of Central America? Maybe its time that the church groups that so lovingly pour all their resources into countries outside the U.S., and send photographers to document their work, start shifting their focus to the poor in this country. For they are poor, and they are suffering, even if they are not "as poor" as the people in Honduras. B. D.