Poverty Wages , "progressives", and racism [View All]

I thought I'd post this article to open a discussion and to get some folks to really think about how social injustice is the major problem in the country today and is related to all other issues...Removing some paragraphs on edit to encourage all to read the article in its entirety:

The article uses a critique of a recently republished book as a springboard for the discussion:

"For the second time since its initial publication in 1991, historian David Roediger has published a new edition of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. This newest edition includes both a new preface by the author and an introduction by former Black Panther and current Yale law professor, Kathleen Cleaver. While the political concept of "white skin privilege" is not Roediger's, his book was instrumental in its attempt to establish a theoretical foundation for what has now morphed into "whiteness studies.""

more:

http://www.counterpunch.org/taylor05172008.html