Kozol's Amazing Grace
Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace: The Trials and Tribulations of
Everyday Life
Jonathan Kozol creates a hauntingly vivid portrait of the
South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven in his 1995 bestseller
Amazing Grace, The Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life. The
shocking truth of Americans living in abject, third-world
conditions in the same time zone as myself was incomprehensible.
Kozol’s descriptions of crippling poverty, lethal pollution, and
almost non-existent health care, bring to mind places …
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…his
district is a prison.
It is an election year, and one candidate has even chosen
the slogan, “Leave no child behind”. However, when politicians
and many citizens as well, speak of children as our most valuable
natural resource, they generally mean their own child, or their
niece or nephew. Family values rhetoric can be taken to mean our
own immediate families and not our human family. Many a child is
left behind.
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