MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009, black households lost just over half of their median net worth compared with white families, who lost 16 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.
However, these numbers have not translated into action. A few prominent African Americans, such as Cornel West, Russell Simmons, Kanye West and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), have made appearances at Occupy protests. “Occupy the Hood,” a recent offshoot, has tried to get more people of color involved. But the main movement remains overwhelmingly white: A Fast Company survey last month found that African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.
Comments
Some gleeful spite from Walter Russell Mead on the article's subject.
Occupy The Plantation? Blacks Shun OWS | Via Meadia:
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 3:12pm
http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153170/%22how_could_this_happen_in_...
by cmaukonen on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 6:08pm
I thought Ms. Patton really got rolling with the controversial no-holds-barred straight talk on page 2 of her op-ed, here
and here:
Some of the conundrums raised by Patton reminded me of this story and comments @ The Root last month, written when "OWS" was several weeks old:
So What If Joe Mamo Made $788 Million?
Attempts to curb a Washington, D.C., gas station mogul raise issues of money, power -- and race.
By: Frank McCoy, October 10, 2011
some of which read to me along these lines: "for crying out loud, we just finally got to the stage where a tiny few of our folks finally made it into 'the 1%.'"
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 12:40am
Thanks for the intro to Joe Mamo.
Patton's piece reminded me of something I read several weeks ago too. I meant to post it here. Better late than never. Maybe.
by EmmaZahn on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 2:19pm