Race and Class -

I read this today ~ whilst Conley was addressing the US ~ I thought it was a poignant (spelling marc?) statement. Linda

Race is so associated with class in the United States that it may not be direct discrimination, but it ... doesn't mean it's any less powerful just because it's indirect."

- Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at New York University. The Boston Globe reported this week that data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows "white households had incomes last year that were two-thirds higher than those of blacks and 40 percent higher than those of Hispanics."