The rebellion in Baltimore is an uprising against austerity, claims top US academic

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20. K&R! Informative article. I just downloaded Ruth Wilson Gilmore's book, The Golden Gulag,

which was quoted in the article. Thanks for posting and thanks for educating me.




"But these events are variations on old themes that have not gone away since segregation, across time and across America. Read the Kerner commission’s report into the race riots of 1967 and it seems to describe much of what has recently happened in Ferguson and Baltimore, where angry protests followed the death in police custody of a young black man, Freddie Gray. “What white Americans have never fully understood, but what the Negro can never forget,” the report said, “is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain, and white society condones it.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/02/baltimore-rebellion-is-uprising-against-austerity-freddie-gray