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This story is the talk of the Asian-Black community right now.

Tiffany Rubin has been battling over custody with her ex-husband Jeffrey Sako for a few years now.  They shared joint custody although Sako was facing up to six months in jail for non-payment of child support.  He decided to get out of it by returning to his home country of Korea and taking his child with him.

Rubin hacked into her ex’s email account and found out where he had gone.  With an anonymous tip to her MySpace page and the help of her new sister-in-law hooking her up with the American Association for Lost Children, Rubin found her son living in Gamsil, a town near Seoul.  She immediately went to Korea to retrieve her son.  She went to the school he was attending and told the teacher she needed to speak with him.  Once in the hallway, Rubin put a wig on her son and along with the representative for Lost Children they went to the American Embassy. 

Salko is still in South Korea.

This story man not have all of the intrigue as “Not Without My Daughter” but I would love to see a Lifetime or WEmovie of the week on it.  They did one for the Buttafuco’s they can do one for this.

Sources for this story are Yahoo News and New York Daily News. 

For the Fox News video click here

Although John Edwards has pulled his bid for president, his candidacy has helped to put the spotlight on poverty in the United States.  Right now everyone is buzzing about race but we can’t really have a true dialogue about race without also looking at social/economic status because the two are inextricably linked. 

To see how linked they are please check you local PBS listing to catch the four-part series called “Unnatural Causes… Is Inequality Making  Us Sick?“.  The first show is called “In Sickness and in Wealth” and looks at health disparity among people of different economic classes in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Four people represent different segments of society and three of them work in the same hospital in different positions.  The first person is a white male who is the CEO of the hospital; he has a high life expectancy and although a stressful job it makes less of an impact on his health than for the other three.  The second is a black female engaged to an Asian male who is on an economic rung lower than the first guy.  She is a supervisor at the hospital.  The next is a black male who works in custodial and last is a white female who is at the bottom of the economic ladder.  The white female doesn’t work at all and along with caring for her children she has to take care of her husband who is disabled along.  The show points out that, contrary to the stereotypical black face of poverty, more whites than blacks in the U.S. are poor.

Next week’s episode is equally intriguing.  That show will discuss why black babies have the highest infant mortality weight regardless of the mother’s economic status.

So, while we are arguing over who has the better health care plan and looking at matters of race perhaps we need to look at it through an economic prism and figure it out.  It costs us all, whether we know it or not.