The Black Commentator

Large American cities are in a difficult economic bind, a bind that is especially tough on poor and working class Americans, who are disproportionately black and Latino. The most pressing problem for poor and working class Americans is that American cities are important nodes in a hyper-competitive global economy where highly educated, high income workers consistently beat their poorer counterparts in the marketplace and politics.

The high cost of living in big US cities is the free market's way of… more

The just concluded presidential election was all about Iraq, with the state of the economy lagging in importance while questions about poverty, economic inequality and racial justice languished in the shadows. As always, the concerns of black people were invisible to the parties and to white America. Black American voters were again caught in a vise between the vengeful white nationalist conservatism of the Republicans and an increasingly indifferent business liberalism of the Democrats.

But one gets the sense that… more