Obama does not speak for Trayvon Martin. He speaks for a different social class, one whose interests are deeply antagonistic to those of the Martin family and the broad mass of working people and youth of all races and ethnicities.
The same day that Obama gave his remarks, the White House flatly rebuffed suggestions that the federal government should come to the assistance of the city of Detroit, forced into bankruptcy last week. Hundreds of thousands of working people in the city, most of them African Americans, face further punitive cuts in public services, jobs and living standards. The Obama administration, which supplied trillions to the Wall Street banks and tens of billions for the auto bosses, offers nothing at all to the people of Detroit.
...millions of people are coming to an understanding that there is something deeply rotten and dysfunctional about the existing economic and political system, and the class chasm separating the financial aristocracy from the broad masses of the people is emerging ever more clearly...
...millions of people are coming to an understanding that there is something deeply rotten and dysfunctional about the existing economic and political system, and the class chasm separating the financial aristocracy from the broad masses of the people is emerging ever more clearly...
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