So Much for the Promised Land
By Chris Hedges
Elite African-American figures, Baker argues, long ago placed personal gain and career advancement over the interests of the black majority. They espouse positions that are palatable to a white audience, positions which ignore the radicalism and structural critiques of inequality by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. And in a time when, as the poet Yusef Komunyakaa has said, "the cell block has replaced the auction block," they do not express the rage, frustration and despair of the black underclass.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23180.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther+King
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges
Elite African-American figures, Baker argues, long ago placed personal gain and career advancement over the interests of the black majority. They espouse positions that are palatable to a white audience, positions which ignore the radicalism and structural critiques of inequality by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. And in a time when, as the poet Yusef Komunyakaa has said, "the cell block has replaced the auction block," they do not express the rage, frustration and despair of the black underclass.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23180.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther+King
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chris+Hedges
rudkla - 3. Aug, 22:44
