STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

people are talking about it.  this is a pretty good article--i didn't cut and paste because it's long, but you do have to register in order to read the full text.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02discrim.html

my one problem with it is that it emphasizes politics, which i think is too simplistic.  the plight of poor people in our country goes way deeper than politics--it's generations-old institutionalized poverty and as bad as everything is now, maybe it will force people to see what they have turned away from for so very long.