[Peace-discuss] Race & class

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Actually, I've just seen the new movie "The Town" (written by my nephew), and 
it's given me some ideas on the redistribution of wealth.

Want to help? Go see the movie and start gathering the necessary materials ... 
I'll tell you where to meet me.  --CGE


On 10/1/10 5:39 PM, John W. wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>
>      Is " having some people of color who are rich ... supposed to count as
>     good news for all the people of color who are poor?
>
>     "The argument for Obama is he’s there, so I can be there too, but all the
>     white male presidents we’ve had haven’t done much good for poor Whites,
>     and in a country where there’s now declining social mobility (less than in
>     Western Europe), it’s hard to take even the traditional solace in the fact
>     that the empty claim that anyone can grow up to become President [Reagan
>     proved that] now includes Black people.
>
>     "None of this will make any difference unless we start thinking about the
>     politically relevant question, eliminating the gap between the rich and
>     the poor."
>
>
>
> Thank God YOU are on the case, Carl !  Thinking about it, I mean.  :-)
>
>     --<http://jacobinmag.com/archive/issue1/wbm.html>
>
>
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