Lady in red/Segundo barrio, El Paso-2008
Father Rahm Street. The Church is the backdrop. Backdrop for everything. Still, the heart of the Segundo barrio. This is a community that is a community where everything is there. No gates. No price tag. Fifty nine years after the Fair Housing Act of 1949 was enacted -the Urban Renewal Act- this barrio goes on, ethnically Latino, still a community, long after most American city’s inner cores have been cleansed of the “unworthy.”
This barrio gets whittled. This barrio endures. One man’s blight is another’s community. No one asking for a bailout here. No one needs one. This is a community.
Everyone is here except people that are uncomfortable with this reality.
Haven’t seen them lately.
