AnnaBR’s Reviews > The Other America: Poverty in the United States > Status Update

“If all the discriminatory laws were immediately repealed, race would still remain as one of the most pressing moral and political problems in the nation… the American economy, society and government are all racist.”

“The double indignity of racial discrimination and economic oppression” “faces that are often happy but always haunted”

“Their creed is one of hatred: against the middle class leaders of the civil rights movement, the Jewish shopkeepers.” Based on a version of mohammedanism.
Paradoxically they strike more of a nerve in NY, where discrimination is veiled in egalitarian rhetoric.

Recalls the Key and Peele sketch on authentic Black American food

“Socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor.”

Child labor ag enforcement….

Discusses union wins and slow action on the part of DoL

Speaks to “imported Mexican laborers” working for even lower wages and the resulting tensions. Calls for government deals with Mexico “for aid or something like that.”

Frequently speaks of the federal government as the only entity that could provide recourse..