Status Updates From A People's History of the U...

“Between 1940 and 1970, 4 million blacks left the country for the city. By 1965, 80 percent of blacks lived in cities and 50 percent of the black people lived in the North.”

“In the spring of 1963, the rate of unemployment for whites was 4.8 percent. For nonwhites it was 12.1 percent. According to government estimates, one-fifth of the white population was below the poverty line, and one-half of the black population was below that line.”

Just here to fall asleep to Matt Damon's voice. Feel free to clown me bc I need to be shamed

"I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world - at least in our minds - and thought of all children, everywhere, as our own.

Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Or Napalm on Vietnam. Or, indeed, wage war on anywhere, because wars - especially in our time - are always wars against children."

"In 1990, the average pay of the CEOs of the 500 largest corporations was 84 times that of the average worker.

By 1999, it was 475 times the average worker's pay."

(Regarding the 1960s and 70s)
"Never in American history had more movements for change been concentrated in so short a span of years.
But the system, in the course of two centuries, had learned a good deal about the control of people. In the mid-70s, it went to work."

"Traditional education became to be reexamined; the schools had taught whole generations the value of patriotism, of obeying authority, + had perpetuated ignorance -even contempt- for people of other nations, races, Native Americans, women."