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Edited on Sat Mar-15-08 01:59 PM by rosebud57
economy and how it relates to the educational, health and welfare opportunities of African Americans.
If you can because you don't live in one of the states that is overwhelmingly white, or unless you can't because you live too far from an urban city, drive through the black neighborhoods. Get out and ask someone to show you the inside of their tenement apartments. Check out the vacant buildings and the glass and refuse strewn vacant lots. Make note of the polluting industries located nearby. Look down at the sidewalk. That is where the peeling lead based paint becomes pulverized underfoot and inhaled by black children as particulate matter. Make note of memorials to murder victims. Look for graffiti with R.I.P. or for Teddy Bears and Mylar balloons tied to utility poles where young black men were gunned down. Check out all the working age people during workday hours. They don't have jobs. They aren't part of the unemployment statistics because they have given up.
America is definitely in the midst of an economic crisis. The point I want to make is the economic crisis that effects black America is much worse, actually slipping backwards (recent data) and is morally unacceptable.
What I described above IS what I see every day in the urban midwestern city I live in. It's not something I "got" from watching The Wire on HBO.
America needs Barack Obama. 12% of our population does need hope.
And economic and social justice.
To not talk about the problems that are unique to African Americans and to pretend their is an equivalency between the plight of white democrats & black democrats is disingenuous.
To use African Americans for their relable Democratic votes for decades and then infer that voting for Obama rather than a white politician with a D after their name is racist, or naive, is insulting.
Hell yes, Wright is pissed off. How could he not be? Chicago ain't Idaho. And he didn't figure out what 21st century America is still like for African Americans by watching HBO.
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