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When the Pew Center recently polled African Americans it found that a solid majority of us now believe that historic gaps between black and white incomes, wages, along with disparites in health, wealth, morbidity, mortality and more are closing. Both the Pew Center and Ford agree this is good news, except for one thing. It's not true. Black unemployment is the highest it's been in 70 years and rising, and all the gaps between blacks and whites are further widening, not the other way around. The only thing that's changed is we now have a black face in the White House...
For an occasion so momentous, not much has changed.
HBCU scandals don’t die, they multiply like vultures stalking a starving child. Black misleaders prey on Black students and faculty for their own advancement.
Letters from Our Readers by Jahan Choudhry, Comments Editor
Only transformational programs, like single payer health care, can erode the coherence of the White Supremacist Bloc, and at the same time galvanize the numeric majority of the nation.
Parthas: 13th amendment still permits slavery; Friedman: solitary confinement routinely used against US political prisoners; white nationalist movements continue to evolve; US govt guilt of colonia
