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by Bruce A. Dixon
A few of them, like Magic Johnson, are black. Is this cause for celebration, or for condemnation?
Former NBA superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a case in point. With business interests all over the
country, Magic dropped a quarter million dollar campaign donation on Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel, and flew to Chicago to get his picture taken with the mayor on the eve of the elction. Magic's
payback was an $80 million dollar contract managing privatized custodial services in Chicago's Public
Schools, under which he pays those custodial employees, many of them African American far, far less
than they once made as direct employees of the public school system.
This doesn't make Johnson unique. It makes him one of the gang, a very privileged gang indeed. A
recent study by the Sunlight Foundation revealed that corporations get about $760 back from
federal, state and local governments for every buck they donate to politicians of the two
capitalist parties.
Read more:http://www.blackagendareport.com/admire-or-condemn-black-one-percenters
A few of them, like Magic Johnson, are black. Is this cause for celebration, or for condemnation?
Former NBA superstar Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a case in point. With business interests all over the
country, Magic dropped a quarter million dollar campaign donation on Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel, and flew to Chicago to get his picture taken with the mayor on the eve of the elction. Magic's
payback was an $80 million dollar contract managing privatized custodial services in Chicago's Public
Schools, under which he pays those custodial employees, many of them African American far, far less
than they once made as direct employees of the public school system.
This doesn't make Johnson unique. It makes him one of the gang, a very privileged gang indeed. A
recent study by the Sunlight Foundation revealed that corporations get about $760 back from
federal, state and local governments for every buck they donate to politicians of the two
capitalist parties.
Read more:http://www.blackagendareport.com/admire-or-condemn-black-one-percenters