Poverty in urban areas populated by people of colour is always framed as an issue because of the "criminality" and "violence" there, rather than the nightmarish living conditions their inhabitants have been forced to endure. White middle class people can only conceive of poverty as a problem when it is an inconvenience to them.
fun report just came out revealing that the London Review of Books has published EXCLUSIVELY white poetry critics reviewing EXCLUSIVELY white poets of the last 8 years
Let's give it up for Jon Stewart, who made sure the first responders during 9/11 got the compensation we'd promised them!
In my years at the company I work for I have gone from showing up 20 minutes early and sometimes starting before we open to get things out of the way to walking in the customer entrance (against the rules) while in the middle of eating breakfast, signing in to start my shift then just blatantly going upstairs to go to the toilet and get changed on company time. This is personal growth