Recognizing Class Struggle

I’m a little behind in the news, because the papers don’t come out here on the day they are delivered. But I recently read that the media was trying to give Paris Hilton $1,000,000 for her first interview after she is released from jail. What?!?! Why is the media so infatuated with White females? Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears etc. Why offer Paris Hilton a million dollars? I’m in jail, I’m the offspring of a wealthy celebrity and I am upset, too. Why doesn’t the media care about me?

It seems like in order to get a break in America, one has to be a White female or male and already rich. I think that maybe the consensus is that people are finally buying into the idea that there is a tacit class system here in America, and the people of all ethnicities occupy the poorer classes and sadly in a country this wealthy, the poorer class really struggling. Is this fair or just? Remember, this is America, the land of opportunity. But maybe not. It seems like the poor are relegated to occupy that position and the opportunities to change that position are disappearing. Is this a healthy America?