We
gather for lectures about black history and assure ourselves that we
have made great progress from the Jim Crow days of black/white
fountains and segregated busses. Nothing could be further from the
truth.
Black folks knew Bush and his
cronies were up to no good from the git-go. Eventually the rest of the
country caught up to us as the lies started to unravel.
f
the 1968 minimum wage of $1.60 an hour had kept up with the cost of
living, the growth of the economy, with the rise of personal incomes,
and with the overall increase in the productivity of the nation, today
it would be $21.16 per hour.
A
significant portion of the so-called 'alternative' media also played an
insidious role in bringing the U.S. Constitution-destroying, drone
missile loving, war mongering, Barack Obama to political power in this
nation.
