A minority tendency of the black middle class has defected to the Republican Far Right, for purposes of career advancement and economic gain. These "race traitors" have become active opponents of the black community's interests.
...
For over one hundred years, the African-American middle class has
largely supported what I call "liberal integrationism," the organized attempt
to assimilate into the U.S. mainstream to achieve a "color blind"
society.
The contemporary black reparations movement, the demand for compensation to African Americans due to centuries of unpaid labor exploitation under slavery, segregation, and ghettoization, has grown remarkably in recent years. On November 7...
When did the great executive stock option hog wallow
really
start? You can go back to the deregulatory push under Carter in
the late
Seventies, then move into the Reagan Eighties, when corporate
purchases of
shares really took...
In contemplating the failed coup of
April 11-14 in Venezuela, only one fact
presents itself as indisputable: there are so many different versions of "the truth" circulating, that it is doubtful anyone really knows what exactly happened...