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Glen Ford on Black Realities and Delusion in the Age of Obama
Bill Quigley
03 Feb 2010
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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...

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