In These Times

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• • 26 Nov 07
  • 4:24 pm

  Bill cosby is an entertainer. Who cares about his opinion? You don't ask entertainers their views on complex ideas about politics and oppression. Get real. Do we ask plumbers to explain abortion rights? This is sick. Of course, Cosby is correct; black people are doing some terrible things to each other; but that is a symptom of something more wicked, something called national oppression. Black people have no control over their daily lives, in all manners of speaking, so what does he expect? Why won't he challenge the status quo? He has money; he's insulated. He won't. He knows what he …

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• • 26 Nov 07
  • 4:31 pm

  People on this list serve keep talking about whining; what a crock! No one is whining. Facts are facts. The reason black folks are behind is because of slavery. This is a fact. The average white family has a net worth of over $100,000. For blacks, it is less than $20,000. If this were equal, I guarantee you; we would have no need for white folks and their world. We would, as Langston Hughes suggested, make a world. We did but it is a world poisoned by economic inequality. We could uplift our kids and many other children if only the …

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