tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5570175695237685972.post9144458604519900845..comments2023-07-20T01:12:23.414-07:00Comments on Working Class Whites and the Law : Paradise, California: A working class community forgottenLisa R. Pruitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5570175695237685972.post-32239638033116199072018-12-27T22:26:46.709-08:002018-12-27T22:26:46.709-08:00As an update to this post, on December 24th Monday...As an update to this post, on December 24th Monday Night Football, the NFL showed photos of high school football players and erroneously commented that they were from Paradise High School. The players were, in fact, from Mckinleyville or "Mack" High. A local DJ pointed this out via twitter here, https://twitter.com/BigReidRadio/status/1077382171378081792. <br />And to this date, Hillary Clinton has not corrected her post despite numerous requests from me and comments from others. <br /><br />But on a positive note, the media accurately reported that the Paradise Adventist Academy's girls volleyball team received donations of around $16,000 and new uniforms during a meet last week. (read it here: https://www.theunion.com/news/sports/outpouring-of-love-forest-lake-christian-community-lends-helping-hand-to-paradise-adventist-academy-in-time-of-need/) So, there might be some hope still. L Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602716361471420393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5570175695237685972.post-1617820378346612522018-11-27T09:52:21.044-08:002018-11-27T09:52:21.044-08:00I am horrified to hear from L. Nicole and from Pro...I am horrified to hear from L. Nicole and from Professor Pruitt of the extent to which people think that the tragedy in Paradise is occurring in Southern California. Being located in Northern California myself, the effects of the fire have been far too immediate (hearing from friends whose families have been effected, being invited to join in fundraising efforts, seeing the smoke) to be confused about where the fire is, and I had not heard about the confusion. I appreciate all of the insights on the way that class (both financial means and the notoriety and fame of wealth) has effected the response to the fires. I wonder if urbanormativity- Paradise is far more rural than Malibu - also effected the response. <br /><br />It seems that, at least in this instance, class was a stronger factor in the response than race. The whiteness of the residents of Paradise does not seem to have garnered them much extra sympathy. Instead, prejudices against class and rurality seem to have made the residents of Paradise forgotten in the midst of their own crisis.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08155687625614241768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5570175695237685972.post-49745147709086378442018-11-26T13:30:12.983-08:002018-11-26T13:30:12.983-08:00Thank you so much for the insight into this crisis...Thank you so much for the insight into this crisis that occurred to the city of Paradise. I believe you are correct in your assessment that many if not a vast majority of Paradise former residents will not be able to rebuild after the destruction that occurred there. I recently read an article discussing some of the people that have been affected and their next steps. Many of those who have been displaced sought out temporary shelter in Chico, Yuba City, and all the way down to Sacramento. Most of these areas have no vacancies remaining in single family homes, hotels, or motels. The situation is worsened because, as you discussed here, many of those residents are low on the socioeconomic scale and were already scraping by in Paradise. The cities of Chico, Yuba City, and Sacramento are all large increases in living costs after already a devastating blow to their livelihoods. The article suggests that many will be forced to leave California all together since they cannot afford these other communities. It is disheartening that the media and executive government have failed to recognize the significant tragedy and the seriousness of the aftereffects of the Camp fire. Many good working class people are disregarded and largely left to their own devices by this administration and government. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11858377683215109239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5570175695237685972.post-24711905701589948822018-11-25T22:21:48.968-08:002018-11-25T22:21:48.968-08:00Thanks so much for this heart-felt and very moving...Thanks so much for this heart-felt and very moving post. As my post a few days ago on this blog and another on the Legal Ruralism blog last week suggest, I have also been grieving Paradise. Yet I have done so with a far less personal connection than you, L Nicole. I have read pretty much everything I could get my hands on about the Camp Fire and its survivors. I have donated to relief efforts. I've contacted all of my friends, including former students, with relatives in Paradise. <br /> Thus, I was stunned this weekend when a relative visiting from Southern California said, "oh, Paradise, that's near us, in Malibu, right"? I literally wanted to scream that a resident of Southern California was so ill-informed about the total destruction of a small city that was home to nearly 30,000 residents. And they weren't just any residents--they included so many in the precariat, so many who barely had a toe-hold on economic stability, on a little slice of the American Dream. And now that has slipped away and, as you suggest, L. Nicole, it won't be easily regained or rebuilt. Lisa R. Pruitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.com