How many homeless, post here?
How many who are working 2 jobs husband and wife, who do not have the luxury to sit at home and bang keys during working day hours?
What will be the increase in Black poverty for the New Year?
and what strategies have we compiled to alleviate it,
to this late date?
Here is an article from the Black Radical Congress website;
And What of the Black Underclass
By Larry Pinkney
With more and more banks failing, joblessness steadily rising, and housing foreclosures continuing to reach an all time high in the United States, the massive black underclass, which is generally ignored, hidden, and unnoticed; reels with indescribable economic and social pain and deprivation.
Having been ruthlessly betrayed by the black elite and much of black intelligentsia in the 21st century, the plight of the black underclass in the U.S. is, in some ways, similar to the horrific existence suffered by the Dalit people (“untouchables”) within India’s notorious and ongoing de facto caste system. Indeed, the black underclass in this nation can be accurately described as the economic and social Dalits of 21st century ‘America.’
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full article:
http://www.blackradicalcongress.org/