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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...
“The meme of militant Black America has been allowed to cannibalise the broader traditions of resistance within which those militants were situated.”
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”
“Billie Holiday reminds us to look unflinchingly at the face of power, to call things by their true names.”
“There is no evidence yet of massive cuts, gradual reductions, or any downsizing whatsoever.”
“Every two years the Band-Aid gets ripped off your heart.”
