The paradox that divides black America

[T_i_B]

I just thought that this article from the UK Observer would be best put here. Please feel free to read the whole article and make of this what you will.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1588158,00.html

At every level of US politics race is never far away. King, were he alive, would have rejoiced at the fact that successive Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, have been black. He would also have been impressed that one of the hottest Democratic tips for the White House, and a possible running mate of Hillary Clinton in 2008, is Barack Obama, who is black.

But those stories have twists. Powell and Rice sprang from solid middle-class backgrounds. They have risen by playing down race. They have also emerged in the Republican Party, not the traditional home of black support. Moreover, Obama's blackness does not come from America. It is a legacy of a Kenyan father. He was born in Hawaii and his mother is a white woman from Kansas. In the world of race in America in 2005 nothing is ever as simple as black or white.

Yet the racial line often seems starkly clear. Nowhere more so than in New Haven, Connecticut: home both to Yale University and one of America's poorest black communities. The border is well known and obvious. It is where Elm Street, lined with Oxbridge-style student cloisters, suddenly changes to Dixwell Avenue, main thoroughfare of the black ghetto.

On one side is the world of the elite, where Ivy League students bustle from lecture halls to cafes. On the other side is north-west New Haven, where Dixwell's shops struggle to make ends meet, houses are in decay and drugs and crime are rife. One world is mostly white, the other almost all black.

[rosesaylavee]

1. At least Clinton acknowledged that there

were still problems. As with so many other things, * hasn't a clue. For someone who can't understand basic concepts such as lying to the American people is a bad thing and why hiring his good buddies for top positions is dangerous when they don't know squat, something so complex as America's race issue is far beyond his ken.

Very good article. Kick and recommended.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. The Good Old Boy Network is willing to use minorities, as long as they..

pass the sycophancy test.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Great article

well written on a complex subject that keeps getting more, rather than less complex.

[T_i_B]

4. Complex indeed

That's why I had difficulty choosing which 4 paragraphs of the article to post. It's certainly an article which needs reading in full.

[pretzel4gore]

5. class war yeah, race war, not quite

the black american population is pushing 30 million, they are a 'canada' in terms of size....one of the 'lies' (not particulaely big, that passes test in usa) is that class isn't an issue, yet class is the main issue, and the fact that a lie (that class aint no issue) passes the test means that - CLASS IS THE MAIN ISSUE! Race, though, is the more visible, and therefore the issue that gets the most gaze (cud chewers using their eyeballs) and of course the pigmedia panders to the herd's prediliction to pee in their dinner soup, so the cud chewers do so (piss in their own soup) while the nazipoos/busheviks chuckle (see foxnews)
Hopefully, which springs eternally, the recent hullaballooo over bill 'educatorman' bennett's idea that if all the black people were aborted, there'd be no crime might shame shame shame righteous blacks to rejoin the revolution...