In the period after the Civil Rights movement black political power was won and exercised, for the first time since Reconstruction, in the mainly large, northern industrial, urban centers, backed up by municipal and other unions. 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 better used. 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: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:35:06 +0000
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