Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
Against The Current vol. 146
Miah, Malik
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2792
Date Written: 2010-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13645
Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-class Blacks. Yet we see a drawdown of protest politics by longtime civil rights leaders, even though the “Great Recession” is causing the greatest harm Black communities have seen in decades.
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