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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...
“I think the movement needs to organize the 93 percent of the work force that is not organized.”
“’Black capitalism’ was a crucial part of President Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’ and the rhetoric and administration of his program is still intact.”
“There can be no ‘black internationalism’ without an attack on imperialism and finance capitalism.”
“For 70 years Israel has been the biggest purveyor of war and chaos in what colonizers termed as the “Middle East.”
