The Racial Divide

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It's a good question: how broad and sweeping the gulf? So long as we have drastic differences in such measures as income and incarceration rates, I suppose the chasm would have to remain fairly wide, even if you do have a more racially diverse mix at the top of the social order.

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[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

To be a little clearer about it, I think most issues we chalk up to race/gender/etc are more appropriately class ones, but I also think we spend entirely too much time concerned about the size of certain classes and using terminology on a national level that bears little resemblance to the common experience on a local level.

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

Common experience at the local level is the ghettoization of blacks.
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