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After a talk on the collapse of complex societies, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: How should people of color respond to the dying of a civilization that has not been civil to them?
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_we_have_to_make_atonement_for_turning_our_backs_on_people_of_c
xchrom
(108,903 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Just things like economic global collapse as a result of repeal of Glass Steagall, NAFTA, DADT, DOMA, and things like that.
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)accuse Hedges of being racist, and an Obama-hater? I hope they watch this. And actually LISTEN.
Hedges a racist? Never.
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)But he dared criticize Obama Administration policies, and that sent some into an absolute tizzy.
KG
(28,749 posts)There's quite a whiplash effect keeping up with Good (Insert Name Here) v. Bad (Insert Name Here), depending on the issue. I do remember Bad Hedges, along with "Senile" Ellsberg. Fortunately, the not-as-vocal majority shot that nonsense down.
malaise
(267,804 posts)DirtyDawg
(802 posts)...believe that the reason the 'white majority' works so hard to keep 'people of color' down, is that we are afraid that when 'we' become the minority the new majority will treat us the same way we've treated them for the, at least, last two hundred years.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)robust resources to aid minority communities that have been ravaged by deliberate racist economic terrorism for decades.