Hedges And Sacco Summary Of Chapter 2

Hedges and Sacco introduce Chapter 2 with Silvia Ramos, she was in a bakery when the gunman came in and shot Hernadez, her husband, a bullet through his heart. He then speaks of the violence in those communities and if that violence continues and are not handled at that time, then more is to come, “violence begets violence” (64). He makes a point that the communities which are suffering from this violence stem from “Slavery. Segregation. Sharecropping. Convict leasing. Jim Crow. Lynching. Urban squalor. Poverty. Racism. Prison.” (64) he claims that it never ends-it is a continuum. Because of segregation and unequal wealth distribution, these targeted communities are suffering a disparity in homelessness.
For example, only five percent of the communities in Camden are white. We see the prejudices prevalent since it is the targeted minority communities who are suffering from cities where the government does not aid these people. They say it is because of the lack of resources since there are 733 homeless and only 233 beds. The police “tolerates” the Transitional Park’s illegality. But in fact, it is important to state that it is not just the lack of resources, but society purposely “forgets” this side of the population, who, by the tragic turn of
They state, “economic segregation is the new, acceptable form of segregation.” (76). Camden is the poster child for the post-industrial America, it is what post-capitalism has done. Father Doyle gives the metaphor that it is like, “what falls off the truck and can’t get back on the truck.” Soon After Camden’s death, it became a wasteland where “its carcass became a dumping ground.” The city’s built forty acres of waterfront and built a sewage treatment plant with millions of wastewater a day. This releases noxious clouds of toxic, making it