Status Updates From Evicted: Poverty and Profit...

“What other self-defense was there for a single mother who could not consistently provide for her children? If a poor father failed his family, he could leave the way Lay did, try again at some point down the road." Poor mothers--most of them, anyway—had to embrace this failure, to live with it”

“Ministers and church ladies, social workers and politicians, teachers and neighbors, police and parole officers throughout the black community would tell you that what you were doing was right, that what these young black boys and girls needed was a stern hand. Do not spare the rod. What began as survival carried forward in the name of culture."