Paul Le Blanc and I have an essay up at truthout.
Here is the link:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18757-black-america-and-a-new-freedom-budget
I still find the data on the socioeconomic condition
of our black sisters and brothers astonishing.
I welcome comments.
I posted a reference to the book Paul and I wrote
on a facebook page dedicated to people who grew
up in my hometown in the 1950s and 60s. I said that
I remembered a great deal of racism in the town. This elicited
some remarkable comments, either denying racism or
saying that they (the commenters) and their families faced
similar hardships.This is, to say the least, not true.
But no facts that I provided dented their beliefs.
The subtext was, of course,that blacks should have
bucked up and made something of themselves, as they had.
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