e fault of the person and not poverty itself. The attempt to reduce births out of wedlock and to get people off welfare puts a higher standard of moral on the poor than the people and persons whom enforce and made this system. While the rich stay rich and set back and call the lower classes lazy, the poor work even harder to keep food on their tables. “In the past, when new technologies have replaced workers in a given sector, new sectors have always emerged to absorb the displaced laborers. Today all three of the traditional sectors of the economy agriculture, manufacturing, and service are experiencing technological displacement. The only new sector emerging is the knowledge sector. Made up of a small elite of entrepreneurs, scientists, technicians, computer programmers, educators and consultants.” The black underclass and displaced Negro are the words that come to mind when I read this. This is permanent unemployment for blacks. Even jobs in fast food and other service sector jobs are becoming harder to come by. The Reagan administration in the 1980’s began to make unions a thing of the past. This was another place were black could get a good paying job with benefits. While money for reform programs are being cut the prison budget have grown at unbelievable rates. In Michigan led cuts for services for the poor it has a $200 million dollar building project. In Missouri $94 million spent and just $50 million in Maryland on new prison projects. This is supposed to be the answer for the prison being over crowded. Its like the Doritos commercial you keep eating we will make more. You blacks keep going to jail we will build more. In all three books we can see that there is a serious problem in the way the system is set up, aspecially for working class black people. There was a time when the systems depended of the poor and lower middle class to do all the things that the upper class didn’t want to do. The poor and l...
