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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...
“Nobody ever defeated these people,” but “we’re going to come together and win this war -- it’s goin’ down,” declared Benton Harbor Black activist Rev.
“If the DNC can sue Wikileaks for economic espionage, then why can’t they sue The New York Timesor The Interceptfor reporting on” purloined emails, said Chip Gibbons
There are times when a self serving incompetent buffoon with a short attention span may do the whole world a favor, and deserve our thanks. This might be one of them.
The following article was authored by Glen Ford when he was editor of The Black Commentator.
Tanzania recently made some seed saving a crime. Liberia lifted its requirements for trading companies to file environmental impact statements.
