I wouldn't be able to answer your question, because I have a blackberry curve!! This was a breath of fresh air blog entry, in these intense times coupled by intense blog convos. ;-) (posted to SXSW 2009: I love my Iphone. )
I wanted to have a home birth, and it was going to cost my family $3,500. My insurance didn't cover that...instead I had a hospital birth b/c my little one was breech ended up having a c-section. Home births are (posted to Quick Hit: The Cost of Being Born at Home)
The "rest of us", I'm sorry but no, many people look at race, class, gender, community, poverty and institutional and structural forms of violence and also pay attention to who are the people in jail: disproportionately Latino and Black males. (posted to Understanding the Dialogue around Lovelle Mixon. )
We can still pay attention to those we say have issues, regardless of your racial background and creds. I have to add that by looking at classism it's difficult to ignore the racial component of economics,I'm sure you know that, (posted to Understanding the Dialogue around Lovelle Mixon. )
Really incredibly insightful comment Puckalish. I was initially offended by the poster, but I think that Samhita used it as a conversation starter. It's not her poster, and if you're going to just look at the picture and comment, you're (posted to Understanding the Dialogue around Lovelle Mixon. )
"If we simply see each violent act (by people representing the system or by people who've fallen through it) as an isolated incident, we may feel better about ourselves (and blame will be much easier to place), but we will (posted to Understanding the Dialogue around Lovelle Mixon. )
Thanks so much to those of you that have come to my defense in this post. i have actually spent my whole day on this thread and wondering if this is the best use of my/our collective energy in solving (posted to Understanding the Dialogue around Lovelle Mixon. )
