Tourists Encouraged to Gawk At, Mock Poor in Horrifying "GHETTO" Bus Tour in Bronx
A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO.’"
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi ... tour-bronx

Politicians furious over Bronx bus company's 'Ghetto' tour
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ ... GXNYDrth7L

Some user comments from the article:
"If you've never traveled abroad you will not know that the tour is full because the rest of the world considers us failures even as we claim the term exceptional as our own. Look to the utter dysfunction of DC to know why we're where we are at today."
"I think this country is very to each borough as well as detroit phila chicago la sending 'tributaries' like in 'the hunger games'. prob very close except without high speed rail in the movie which brought the 'tributaries' to compete. They will just call it 'patriot' games like the other movie and dum* amerikans will eat it up mindless!y."
"It is not surprising that the poor are looked down upon as lesser than others. Living in a super materialistic world where money (Mammon) is the chief deity, we can expect this crass behavior from businesses where the ONLY edict is profit. What's next? Pelting the poor with vegetables from a double decker bus as it traverses through the South Bronx and Harlem."
"Just as Aldous Huxley described in "A Brave New World"
"As long as American society is so deeply penetrated by greed and corruption, and the rich are glorified as "makers" and the poor and middle class vilified as lazy, this will be the norm."
And best of all, this gem of a comment about racist Italian Americans (which I find true from my own experiences):
"Battaglia; probably an Italian American. Who's ancestors had to be treated for lice, parasites and malnutrition at Ellis Island, before being accepted into the general population. By the way the New York Plutocratic Defense, aka NYPD is staffed by these racist Italian American "stop and friskers", who refer to minorities as 'mutts'. When the Petro Dollar ceases to be the exclusive currency, acceptedby OPEC in exchange for Petroleum; this whole Country maybe the Globes Ghetto."