A Native American man was shot, allegedly by a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat, on Thursday at an Española rally where county officials had originally planned to
Española is about 25 miles away from Los Alamos. The difference of the two cities reminds me of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Not only is East Palo Alto very poor - decades ago it had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. I have no idea how the city is doing now but I assume it’s pretty much the same. The local tech bros (including I don’t know how many billionaires) surely don’t give a fuck even if they say they believe in the bullshit of effective altruism.
An inevitable risk of juxtaposing the country’s richest community with one of its poorest is the inference that the latter is somehow responsible for the former. We made no such claim, but could hardly avoid the fact that others at least thought Los Alamos and/or the government should be doing more.
Española is about 25 miles away from Los Alamos. The difference of the two cities reminds me of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Not only is East Palo Alto very poor - decades ago it had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. I have no idea how the city is doing now but I assume it’s pretty much the same. The local tech bros (including I don’t know how many billionaires) surely don’t give a fuck even if they say they believe in the bullshit of effective altruism.