“Why is she being evicted?”
That’s a phrase I hear nearly everyday, about somebody. Many of us do. Why is she being evicted? It’s annoying--as if that word were sufficient--that something so devastating should become so common, sound so ordinary. It’s indicting that the pronoun is nearly always “ she”, and that the she being evicted is more often an African American woman, and a single mother, (see Megan Cottrell’s article about Matt Desmond’s research, “Eviction is to black women what incarceration is to black men”). Also, why do the families being displaced have to answer for this? Why shouldn’t that burden at least fall upon the people doing the evicting. “Why are you putting them out?” That’s better.
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