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E-mail a friendIs the Recession a Racial Equalizer?
Job seekers at an employment fair in Southern Florida.
There have been Op-Eds in The New York Times saying that "blacks are the ones who are taking the brunt of the recession, with disproportionately high levels of foreclosures and unemployment."
But a recent article in the paper asserts that the recession is helping bridge the racial divide in a suburb of Atlanta. The article quotes an African American woman, Keasha Taylor, who is seeking help at the Division of Family and Children Services:
"Right now, a lot of white people are in this situation," Ms. Taylor said. "We're already used to poverty; they're really not."
Does this shared economic suffering change any underlying racial dynamics?
If more whites are using social services, will people be forced to reconsider their stereotypes about who uses these services?
And what does this all mean once we pull out of this recession?
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