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From the Perspective of the Betrayed: An Organizing Strategy

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Clinton then urged these people with “a little left over at the end of the month” to see themselves as “equal” with others like herself and Obama (millionaires)! “We are all Americans” and “we” need to “work hard to elect Barack Obama.” That “work hard, again. But this time, work hard for Obama, for the…

June 19, 2008 1 min read Free to read

Clinton then urged these people with “a little left over at the end of the month” to see themselves as “equal” with others like herself and Obama (millionaires)! “We are all Americans” and “we” need to “work hard to elect Barack Obama.” That “work hard, again. But this time, work hard for Obama, for the Democrats. Then “we” won’t bother you again because “we” will forget you (people-with-a little-left-over-at-the-end-of-the-month, people living paycheck to paycheck) until the next election!

This deliberate manipulation of language by New World people desecrates the graves of the Old World’s people.

The U.S. government refused “to take effective actions to end racist practices” against American Indians, Alaska Natives, and indigenous peoples, Blacks, Latino/as in the areas of “criminal justice, housing, healthcare, an education.” According HRT, “the CERD also voiced strong concerns regarding environmental racism and the environmental degradation of indigenous areas of spiritual and cultural significance, without regard to whether they are on ‘recognized’ reservations lands.”

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