Since the war in Iraq began almost five years ago, Chicago has been the site of some of the most robust and raucous antiwar agitation in the country. But a persistent racial chasm undermines these efforts. Black participation in marches is depressingly low and the antiwar movement’s leadership is predominantly white. A handful of progressive black politicians, clergy or community leaders… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesAll I can say is —
It is a genuine indicator of employment famine when people are protesting to get jobs at Wal-Mart. This is the American Dream?
The nation owes Ross Perot a sincere apology.
Posted by whattheheck on Jan 31, 2008 at 9:07 PM Your reach of your argument is impressive, Mr. Thindwa. Yet I find myself wondering why you might doubt that the African-Americans of Chicago most direly affected by the mobilization of mainstream establishment’s resistance to living-wage ordinations might not already know too well what you report. If, as you put it, it is universally and understandably accepted that “political participation rises with income,” it seems likewise evident that such participation declines as desperation heightens. Keep it up, though, please. It’s more likely you might make the oppressors feel guilt than that you’ll inform the defeated of something that they don’t already know. Expose those ministers, insist that the Black Caucus cease exercising uninspiring restraint, follow, as Deep Throat so eloquently advised, the money. When I watched Jimi Hendrix play the national anthem with his teeth, it occured to me that my black brothers and sisters, as we called each other in those naive days, understood a hurt that was ineffable, needed others to voice because of a numbing hopelessness that made them mute. He was a veteran, in more ways than one.
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