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Correspondent Chris Jansing reported from a tent city in Sacramento, Calif. that NBC labeled a “shanty town” onscreen. The only thing missing was a Woody Guthrie song.
Historic photographs of Depression-era “Hoovervilles” flashed on the screen as Jansing narrated, “These images so hauntingly reminiscent of the iconic photos of the 1930s and the Great Depression. This is a modern-day shanty town.”After several “haunting” photos, an image of the “modern day shanty town” appeared in black and white before it was colorized – an unsubtle attempt to persuade viewers that this is a second Depression.
...Jansing concluded her report by ominously intoning, “Dinner is simmering in a pot made out of a coffee can. Soup from water, potatoes, onions, canned tomatoes. You’re left to wonder what tomorrow will hold for the people here and how many more will arrive.”
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In a raadio interview, the head of ICare-America.org said that the Sacramento “Tent City” has been there since the 40’s and at least a third of the folks are the “hard-core homeless who, that’s their definition of freedom.” Another third he described as folks recently displaced by foreclosures. [8% of mortgages are “troubled. that stat includes folks who have missed one payment] The last third went un-described.
He went on to discuss the social aspects of the average “tent city” [there are several around CA] as being like any town you know. Governments spring up and there are good people and dangerous people involved.
Apparently, Sacramento’s new mayor has told that tent city to go ahead and self-govern. My only question—can I get that proviso for my own neighborhood? I mean, we don’t live in tents, but why hold that against us?
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