I watched with interest a CNN report posted on Roland Martin’s Blog titled “Wall Street Showdown” that featured a struggling black woman named Lisa Robinson as she went about her daily routine with her family while worrying about how to save her home from foreclosure. Robinson said to CNN Reporter Mary Snow, “Goldman Sachs, Wall Street bankers, for me it’s all the same,” referring to what she called their “predatory” lending practices.
That’s the way I feel about the Casino industry. It’s no accident that people critical of Wall Street use terms such as “casino economics” to describe how the rich are ensuring that they will get even richer by preying on poor folks. The casino industry isn’t doing anything different, except that they can legally rob us blind. Most folks just haven’t awakened to that fact yet. I hope they will soon, before it’s too late for us to change the tide that’s accelerating a whole lot of people’s decline into greater and greater debt.
Sandra Adell, Author: Confessions of A Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir
A Black Woman's Reflections on Casino Gambling 