Oh, yeah, in case I didn't specifically say it...

... yeah, I think ***we*** collectively owe a share of our national wealth to black people...

We collectively stole them from their families... We collectively sold them as chattle... We collectively used them as slaves and/or
peasant class workers to build our infastructure... We collectively set them free with absolutely ***nuthing***... We collectively treated them as second class people... We collectively lynched them... We collectively made them feel as if they were no welcome in the only country they knew...

And we collectively continue to some degree doing all the things I've just mentioned...

And it no wonder that though there are more white folks (in numbers) who are poor there is a much larger percentage of balck people who are poor... Much, much larger...

So, yes, we collectively have some "repair"ations to make to blacl people...

Do think diffeerntly is teerribly racist and narrowminded...

But, we also owe "repair"ations to coal miners in West Virginia, to hunkies who ran the steel mills in Youngstownh, Ohio, to migrant workers who have put food on our tables going back as long as nayone reading this has been alive...

Yes, we collectively owe all the oppressed people.... That ***was*** waht the War on Poverty was supposed to be about until rich Republicans hired enough PR people and spent enough $$$ on PR ads to slam anyone who wasn't greedy... Thay slammed liberals... They slammed Warl Warren... They slammed Bobby Kennedy... No, they friggin'paid some poor shmo who didn't even know who Bobby Kennedy was to kill him... Same with Martin Luther King...

If you can't shut 'um up opne way, do it another is what the right wing in America is all about...

"Yeah, I don't have to give them niggers nuthin'... Hey, I didn't do that..." Yeah, this has been the battle cry of the rich, the greedy, the powerfull...

What a bunch of totally anti-human, greedy, uncompassionate, unChristain crap...

So for the smug-among-us... Screw you... You know what I'm sayin' is right...

You want to end poverty??? Change your thinking and the rest will follow... You can't have it all!!! Bring back the funding for breakfast programs so that poor kids would not only have an reason to go to school but also get at least one decent meal a day... Restore child care programs... Fund mental health... Pass a real mnimum wage law... Provide health care for every American... Put yer money where your mouth is on education.... The list goes on... Google "Great Society"....

Yeah, this is all about ***collective*** values... We have ***collectively*** created proverty and the only way to reverse it is if we ***collectively*** change our values and proirities...

B~