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Thank you very much, sis.
Commentary: Why’s All the Moralizing Over Personal Responsibility Aimed at Poor Black People?
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com
You would think that women who lose their children to random street violence would rate some compassion and empathy. But it seems that for single black mothers in Jacksonville, Fla., those things are as rare as cheap unleaded gas.
There’s a surplus on sanctimony and blame, however.
Marching for life instead of money? We gave up that "culture of life" bullshit when Republicans embarrassed themselves fawning over Terri Schaivo's animated remains. But good luck, seriously.
Groups Plan Rally on Mall To Protest Darfur Violence
Bush Administration Is Urged to Intervene in Sudan
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 27, 2006; A21
An unusually broad coalition of 164 humanitarian and religious groups, including Amnesty International and the National Association of Evangelicals, is planning a huge rally Sunday on the Mall to call for intervention to end the violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
With the added draw of celebrity speakers such as actor George Clooney and Olympic speedskating gold medalist Joey Cheek, organizers expect tens of thousands of people to converge on the District.
Stop Genocide rallies also are planned in Chicago, San Francisco and 15 other cities. An allied campaign, A Million Voices for Darfur, aims to deluge the White House with 1 million postcards. The goal is to push the Bush administration to support a multinational peacekeeping force for Darfur, where militias backed by Sudan's government have killed tens of thousands of civilians and driven 2.5 million from their homes since 2003.
Suckers...
America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study
Wed Apr 26, 2006 05:14 PM ET
By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America may still think of itself as the land of opportunity, but the chances of living a rags-to-riches life are a lot lower than elsewhere in the world, according to a new study published on Wednesday.
The likelihood that a child born into a poor family will make it into the top five percent is just one percent, according to "Understanding Mobility in America," a study by economist Tom Hertz from American University.
By contrast, a child born rich had a 22 percent chance of being rich as an adult, he said.
"In other words, the chances of getting rich are about 20 times higher if you are born rich than if you are born in a low-income family," he told an audience at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank sponsoring the work.
He also found the United States had one of the lowest levels of inter-generational mobility in the wealthy world, on a par with Britain but way behind most of Europe.
There's one more I was gonna toss in here, but I thought of a lead in line that just BEGS to be a title, so...
