Today’s edition of the San Francisco Chronicle contains an interesting column by Carl Nolte wherein he describes the manner in which racial apartheid was practiced in this city until relatively recent times.
Like everyone else, I am closely watching every move President-elect Barack Obama makes in preparation for taking office next week. And even though I am generally impressed by the intelligent, organized manner in which he has put together his cabinet and team of advisers, some aspects of his perfrmance are puzzling, if not disappointing.
We should all be deeply concerned about the conspicuous avoidance practiced by mainstream organs of journalism regarding the rising number of homeless U.S. citizens. The print and broadcast media devote, it seems, as little attention to the subject as they possibly can.
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An old man, and two ill-tempered dogs, have been living for the past few month on my block, in a ready-for-the-scrap-heap van. The man moves the van a few feet each day in order to avoid parking tickets. Sometimes he parks it on the south end of the block, and sometimes on the north. This past weekend, the van was parked directly in front of my building.
I have lived through more economic recessions than I care to recall, and I believe I have spent more than my fair share of days coping with the daily ravages of up close and personal poverty. Unpleasant memories of such events motivate my tendency to keep close watch on the money scene. Given what I am currently witnessing where that scene is concerned, I am becoming increasingly convinced that the phenomenon commonly referred to as “the global financial crisis,” is going to reshape the world we have come to regard as “normal” during the last few decades.
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