Don’t call us “urbanites,” you reactionary. We’re “people in cities.” The Animals’ Agenda reports on the following resolution, among many passed at a 47-group “Summit for the Animals” held in Saint Louis in April: “We agree that the terms ‘zoo animals,’ ‘farm animals,’ and ‘laboratory animals’ will be replaced with the terms ‘animals in zoos,’ ‘animals on farms,’ and ‘animals in laboratories.’”
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“Equally positioned whites and blacks have highly unequal amounts of wealth,” report sociologists Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro in their new book Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. “Even when whites and blacks were matched on all the identifiably important factors [such as age, education, parents’ occupation, labor market experience], we could still not account for about three-quarters of the racial wealth difference. If white and black households shared all the wealth-associated characteristics we examined, blacks would still confront a $43,000 net worth handicap!”
What God hath wrought. Salt of the Earth (September/October) quotes Emily Demuth Ishida on a visit to an unnamed south side homeless shelter: “Hundreds of people were served by this ministry in Christ’s name, an efficient and impressive operation. When the guide took the visiting group through the clothing bank, she proudly announced, ‘We save the best clothes for those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.’”
Long lines. Residents per public-library computers available in Chicago suburbs, 13,286; in Chicago, 20,469 (Chicago Reporter, July).
