In the period after the Civil Rights movement a degree of black political power was won and exercised, a first since Reconstruction. This time, instead of in the local and state governments of the defeated South, it was mainly in the large, northern industrial, urban centers, backed up by municipal and other unions, that black folks held a modicum of autonomy and social power. With the disenfranchisement of a majority of Michigan’s black citizens, the ‘Right to Work’ enactments and the end of manufacturing and with it, any hope at bettering your position through working, we can add what amounts to forced removal of unwanted population from those cities, so that the land might be more profitably exploited. The end of the Second Reconstruction is happening now, in our cities, before our eyes; this time in the era of neo-liberalism, and of the first black President. from Rustbelt Radical
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 05:55:53 +0000
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