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Dont call me Shirley

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5. It is re-enslavement of blacks, the prison population, the poverty in black neighborhoods,

Reply to KingCharlemagne (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 12, 2014, 10:31 AM

Dec 2014

the low wage jobs, the flooding of guns and gangs into the poor brown neighborhoods.

You're neighborhood sounds wonderful, but it is not the reality for most. The reality for most is low pay, no benefits and lots of blame on them for not being able to "move on up".

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Noam Chomsky: Reagan was an ‘extreme racist’ who re-enslaved African-Americans [View all] kpete Dec 2014 OP

Chomsky is on point. As usual. RedCappedBandit Dec 2014 #1

I like and respect Chomsky a lot. But on this, I have to say he is 'crazy' as far KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #2

read the new jim crow by Michele Alexander--chomsky has a point dembotoz Dec 2014 #4

I won't belabor the point, I suppose. I plan to read Alexander's book soon. Thanks KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #6

It is re-enslavement of blacks, the prison population, the poverty in black neighborhoods, Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #5

I'm not going to belabor the point. My neighborhood is not wonderful, but it does KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #7

The media is using many references to civil war, antebellum, etc. The music industry promotes Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #9

The war on drugs is more class warfare than race warfare. FLPanhandle Dec 2014 #3

Let's have a "war on drugs" and have the CIA pump drugs into black neighborhoods. Scuba Dec 2014 #8