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    Black People : The Return of Jim Crow

    Also right after Reagan took office
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    Black People : The Return of Jim Crow

    I address the recent SCOTUS issue in another thread and I have an article on my site lessiebranch dot com. I'm not surprised by the ruling and am not happy either? Why am I not surprised? Largely because society, including many blacks, think race doesn't determine life chances and outcomes so we...
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    Black People : The Return of Jim Crow

    I'd suggest that as Bonilla Silva states color-blind racism ignores race or erases it. So if we're post racial as Justice Roberts alluded to there's no reason to keep the focus on race. The argument goes we're beyond race so why keep referring to it. Tim Wise also has a great book that deals...
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    Black People Politics : After 2016, when obama leaves office and the real axe comes after the Black community then what?

    My comment was only addressing the economic component based on CPS, and SIPP data I study as a racial policy scholar. Actually the entire country is worse off, not just black, due, in large part to a dysfunctional legislature who are by all appearances anti everything except themselves. In...
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    Black People Politics : After 2016, when obama leaves office and the real axe comes after the Black community then what?

    I'm aware, but if I were a betting woman (and I'm not), I'd lay a dollar to a dime that if we had a white president, Congress would be more willing to get behind him/her and the economy would have taken no time to get fixed. I think, don't recall 100%, (I've got CRS) in a response you made in...
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    Black People : The Return of Jim Crow

    Jim Crow never left, it just changed outfits and became a bit more difficult to recognize. It's called color blind racism. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses it. lbranch
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    Black People Politics : After 2016, when obama leaves office and the real axe comes after the Black community then what?

    While I agree with you in principle, looking at the CPS data, blacks actually fared better, economically under Bush than they are faring under Obama. lbranch
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    Black People Politics : Politics From The Black Perspective

    No choice? Never believe for a moment people have no choice. For the most part, what we consciously choose or not choose to do is in our power. I get that there are lots of interests and stakeholders. Just seems shameful that the interests of the people whose ancestors were the main economic...
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    Black People : Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act: ‘Our country has changed’

    I had a wonderful time this evening, engaging with my Destee family. Thanks for helping my brain to create new wrinkles. My alarm will be going off in a few short hours, so off to catch some zzzz. May God keep each of you and your families safe. Bell well. lbranch
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    Black People : Supreme Court strikes down key part of Voting Rights Act: ‘Our country has changed’

    It doesn't, I was replying to jamesfrmphilly concerning elements of the CRA versus the Black Power Movement. In that post, I was replying the the gentleman to state that CRA was a multifacited movement. And your comment in terms of the vote is something that King realized after the vote was...
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    Black People Politics : Politics From The Black Perspective

    No surprises indeed. I'm not so sure that it calls necessarily for a race neutral position. But the only way we fix problems is when we admit them and do so in a truthful manner. On its face, VRA is a race based policy to deal with a race based problem. In terms of the VRA, all Americans...
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