Re: Class, race, basketball and oil

2000-02-21 Thread Jim Devine
At 09:52 AM 2/21/00 -0500, you wrote: The press has noted that Haiderism has a deeply xenophobic character. It feeds on racial hatred and resentment toward immigrants, in this particular instance some tens of thousands of people fleeing the civil wars in former Yugoslavia. from today's L.A. TIMES,

RE: Class, race, basketball and oil

2000-02-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
. . . is that 98 percent of the world's population has an income of less than $25,000 per year, a figure in the United States that is close to the poverty line. . . . FYI $25K for an individual is quite a bit higher than the U.S. poverty line. For a family of four, for instance, it is $16,450.

Re: RE: Class, race, basketball and oil

2000-02-21 Thread Doug Henwood
Max B. Sawicky wrote, responding to Lou Proyect: >. . . is that 98 percent of the world's >population has an income of less than $25,000 per year, a figure in the >United States that is close to the poverty line. . . . > >FYI >$25K for an individual is quite a bit higher than >the U.S. poverty li