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Economic and Social Inequality SUMMER 2023
ing. But the thing that bothered me the most was when I would question
them about that, they would respond to me, "Don't you have a color
TV?"
And as a recent college graduate on a very limited budget, I didn't have
a color TV. My husband and I had one those little ones that you put on
a cart, and you pull it into the kitchen when you were in the kitchen and
then you went into the bedroom with it when it was nighttime. But they
believed what they saw on TV. They thought that everybody was rich.
In dealing with the people that I've dealt with, they are only economically
poor. They are not all poor people. They are just in situations, in many
instances through no fault of their own, because of their circumstance.
Whenever Kate and Abdul approached me about doing this, I have to
truthfully admit to you that I didn't have a full understanding of exactly
what we were going to be discussing today. I knew about the inequality,
and I thought about inequality: How in the world can you ever resolve
inequality? It's a given. By accident of birth, we come into this world on
different levels. By accident of family, we come into this -I tell people
all the time, you know, "The apple didn't fall far from the tree," and it
doesn't in most instances.
I noticed in the program it talks about the basis of economic life is hu-
man labor. Lot of people don't have the opportunity for employment.
Look around you at the jobs that have been taken away. But technolo-
gy-in fact, I get angry at myself every time I step into WalMart and
self-check-because you know I'm taking away a job. I can remember
when you used to go to the service station and people pumped your gas
for you. I remember when you went into a restaurant you didn't have to
get your own drink. You know, now when I go to the bank, I get so angry
when they say, "Miss O'Neal, you can do that online."
I don't want to do it online. I want a human being. And so unfortunate-
ly-maybe I am getting a little bit into labor but unfortunately, with
the way things are now, the jobs that most people not your highly ed-
ucated, not your highly trained but most average people there are no63
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