I Was Born In A Slum, But

The Black Public Sector Middle Class Teachers, Policeman, Firemen, And Post Office Workers, Those Jobs Have Been On The Decline But There Hasn't Been A Corresponding Increase In The Private Sector. What Is Especially Painful Is Government Policy Bailed Out The Banks Without Making Them Make Reinvestments For Rebuilding. The Result Is 53-million Americans Are Food Insecure, 50-million Americans Are In Poverty, 44 Million Are On Food Stamps, 26 Million Are Looking For A Job.

When Blacks Got The Right To Vote, White Women Got The Right To Sit On Juries.

My Very First Recollection Of Life On Earth Was Waking Up In Bed With My Mother, And She Was Showing Me A Picture Of My Father, Charles Jackson, With A Group Of Soldiers.

The Wiping Out Of Millions Of Homes Took Away Black And Brown Wealth. It Drove Poverty, It Drove Unemployment, It Drove People To Food Stamps.

In Many Ways, History Is Marked As 'before' And 'after' Rosa Parks. She Sat Down In Order That We All Might Stand Up, And The Walls Of Segregation Came Down.