Can we make a difference in race relations with out addressing class disparities?
These charts show the economic recovery by education level, education level by race, incarceration rates by race and deaths by police by race.. There are some very serious challenges we face and must address as a nation if we wish to bring a meaningful correction to these disparities.
Economy improving, but workforce divided - Business Insider
I have examined both of these problems with an open heart and mind and have come to the resounding conclusion that the race divide is partially, if not entirely, dependent on a dramatic correction of the ever widening class divide. As long as there exists this growing gulf of the haves and have-nots we may never have the ability to tackle anything outside of day to day struggle while we suffer our traditionally well paying jobs, being shipped off shore. While our infrastructure deteriorates. Our homes and neighborhoods transformed into investment ventures that we can not afford with our newer, low paying and no benefit jobs.
The investment class have gotten the rules to the game changed and this has set the table for unfettered infiltration into every aspect of our lives. The greed of profits over humanity is destroying the social fabric of this nation and the world at large. There are many excuses for why this has been allowed to happen. The effects are obvious and some that are far more shadowy and difficult to identify. For example: News departments had to be completely separate from the advertising/profit making side of the networks to aid in unbiased and balanced reporting. Investment banking and banks for deposits and checking had to keep separate. Investment banks had a fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest of the client. NOT themselves. A concerted effort to degrade the institutions and social safety net that serve all equally. Putting a strangle hold on funding that support our commons. Privatizing education with charter schools and tax dollars. Privatizing a prison system. Privatizing our Interstate Highways. Our commons. It has become more and more certain that if you don't have the finances, you won't have the education, the job, the healthcare, the clean water, the unpolluted soil and air and you will not be treated equally by lawenforcement and the courts.
There is no "Mainstream Media" to investigate and inform the public on the important issues that concern our lives. Our politics is corrupted by the unregulated influence of corporations and the well-monied and "THEY" DO corrupt and control the conversation about these issues. We know something is terribly wrong and they are more than happy to tell us who's at fault and it's not them. Do you really believe that? Do your really believe that it's your neighbor? Or you?
DO YOU REALLY?
